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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steve Conan Trustrum" data-source="post: 2502171" data-attributes="member: 1620">What do I think we will see happen if a fourth edition is published without an OGL?Small press publishers will move their d20 brand products entirely under the OGL and keep right on going. I wouldn't be surprised to see a bunch of companies band together to create their own "OGL" brand identity, if any one of those companies alone wasn't strong enough to do it solo.A 4e would return DnD to the solitary location it occupied prior to the OGL, but those people enjoying OGL material and exposure would simply retain their 3e or 3.5e corebooks to use as the rule books for all the OGL material people would keep using. After all, even though the d20 STL can be cancelled, preventing anyone from putting out any d20 product, the market has long since learned that OGL can be successful without the d20 logo. If the latter is no longer an option, the market would likely be quick to pick up an independent symbol of recognition to replace it and, unlike the d20 STL, the OGL cannot be cancelled and put the genie back in the bottle.</blockquote>