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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Michael Tree" data-source="post: 2776279" data-attributes="member: 1455">I think you're vastly overestimating the amount of competition WotC actually has from OGL companies.  If 4e isn't open, the amount of competition would drop even further. The gains from litigating this would be, at best marginal, and probably not worth the bad press it would create.  I suspect that WotC would only bring out the lawyers if other companies use closed 4e material (or material that looks very similar) in OGL books.I suspect that if 4e isn't open, the OGL lines that are actually independent games rather than D&D 3.5 supplements or "setting books with modified 3.5 rules" will continue to do well, but almost everything else will drop off.  M&M and True20 will continue to do well, since they're great games and have gone in directions that D&D will never go.  Arcana Evolved will too, unless D&D4e dramatically improves the D&D magic system.I suspect that if a non-open 4e comes out, we may see a bunch of new editions of OGL games, ones which don't exactly use the 4e rules, but which redesign their own games based on what 4e improved in D&D.</blockquote>