OGL Cloning 4e?

[PapersAndPaychecks]

Unfortunately a 4e OSRIC will remain the term people use until someone either starts something specific or another name is agreed on.

I suggest "an OGL 4e simulacrum"

 

[Scribble]

I suggest "an OGL 4e simulacrum"

Too many words, and not as catchy.

 

[Particle_Man]

My apologies for the nomenclature. Maybe "4e cloning" would be better as a term?

 

[Voadam]

I suggest "an OGL 4e simulacrum"

"OGL 4e Clone"

Clone spell is part of D&D too.

 

[Alzrius]

I've been thinking about this a lot. I propose that such a system should be called 4Esque.

 

[Feanor Liberius]

You're going to skin it, right?

Name writes itself, really...

 

[delericho]

I don't want to see 4E cloned.

What I would like to see, is some of the design changes that I consider to be improvements in 4E... reinvisioned and implemented differently in an OGL game.

Agreed on both counts. Of course, there's nothing stopping this being done, except the question of whether it would sell.

Personally, the changes I would want to see back-ported are philosophical: consciously consider the class roles more (so that the Bard is built as a good Cleric-substitute, not a poor Rogue-substitute, for example), and look very closely at encounter design.

 

[PapersAndPaychecks]

the question of whether it would sell.

Clearly it wouldn't. To achieve its purpose it would have to be a free SRD.

 

[delericho]

Clearly it wouldn't.

I've obviously missed something. Why wouldn't an OGL-based game that incorporated some of the 4e refinements sell?

 

[PapersAndPaychecks]

I think 4esque wouldn't sell because the buying public would go for 4e over 4esque. (The Coke effect: it's the real thing!)

I think anyone who produced it would be more motivated by trying to free publishers from the constraints of the GSL than by making direct profit now.