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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Michael Tree" data-source="post: 2505940" data-attributes="member: 1455">Talking about whether or not 4e will be OGL misses the point, IMO.  Even if it's completely open, and a 4e SRD is released to publishers in advance of the street date of the 4e PHB, it's still risky for publishers to spend resources on d20 "D&D supplements."After all, 3.5 was completely open, and it still "kicked publishers in the nuts."  The simple fact is that once 4e is announced, and there's no way for publishers to know in advance of an announcement, sales of d20 "D&D suppliments" will plummet, and the entire backstock will become unsellable.  Meanwhile, independent lines like M&M, True20, AE, and Mongoose's licenses will remail viable sellers for quite a while, regardless of 4e.</blockquote>