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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jdrakeh" data-source="post: 2774958" data-attributes="member: 13892">The stated purpose of the OGL was to encourage 3rd party publishers to produce supplements (more recently it has been suggested that 'supplements' meant 'adventure mopdules' exclusively), driving core book sales, and thus, allowing WotC to focus primarily on publishing core books. Or at least that was the gist of the very early OGL 'master plan' explanations. I think it actually worked like that for a very short while. As for the OGL going 'bye bye' - can't happen. It's a common misconception that WotC can dissolve the OGL. They can certainly stop using it in the future, but they can't retroactively declare it null and void or repeal copies of the license already in circulation. Why this misconception lingers, I do not know (there is no evidence to support it past paranoid delusion). So... to answer your question... Yes. Even if WotC declines to publish 4e under the OGL, there is nothing to stop publishers from continuing to release material built on previously declared OGC under older versions of the license, nor will previously released material suddenly become unlawful.</blockquote>