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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jan van Leyden" data-source="post: 3987478" data-attributes="member: 20307">What I do here is a bit of interpretation of your post, so I may be wrong.The "D20" label will not be available for 3rd party products using the OGL for 4e.If a publisher wants to release his 4e products before 2009, he'll have to pay $5,000 up front to WotC for the so called Designer Kit. This gives them access to preliminary versions of the SRD and advance versions of the core rule books, too. If they do not want to pay, they can get the OGL and SRD for free in June 2008.The SRD, what you call the "free ruleset online", will change. It will no longer contain the actual text of the rulebooks, but references the sections which are available via the OGL.Depending on the wording of the OGL it might be legal to produce an online ruleset from the rulebeooks or not.What is fair? I think it was ore than fair from WotC to give us all the tools a they did for 3e. I don't know of any other company in the business which has done this before. When they tighten the rains this time around, it is still fair for them to open up their game, the biggest RPG by far, for others to use in their own products.I'm not one to complain that last year's birthday present was greater than this year's; it is still something I've received as a present, and I'm happy that I've got it.---HuldvollBaron von Bomberg</blockquote>