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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 2503245" data-attributes="member: 22779">Just a thought about 4e not being OGL.  Take a look at the recent WW debacle over licensing.  The reaction was instant and crushing.  To the point where the idea got squashed extremely quickly.  What do you think would be the fan reaction to an announcement that 4e will be non-OGL?  Somehow I think it would be very, very similar. To make 4e non-OGL would be a terrible mistake IMO.  One of the greatest strengths of the current edition has been the OGL.  It has allowed competition to refine and polish the companies that survived the 3e to 3.5 transition.  Sure, there's lots of crap out there, but, then again, there always was.  Just before, the crap was all published by the same company, now it's published by 50 or so.  I really can't see how it can be argued that the OGL has been less than an unqualified success.  The huge resurgeance of the hobby in the last 5 years can certainly be attributed, at least in part, to the OGL.  The fact that umpteen companies now advertise DnD, even if its only their brand of it, can only help WOTC.Sure, there's lots of games being published under the OGC.  But, then again, back in the day, there were a bazillion games published that directly competed with TSR.  It never really mattered.  DnD steamrolled them all.  So what if you play True Rose?  Chances are, you've also bought a PHB at one point or another, even if it was just to mine ideas.  So long as WOTC controls the three core books, the OGC is just going to keep making money for them.  Everyone else is bringing in players into roleplaying and, eventually, just because of numbers, those numbers get introduced to DnD.Just a couple of cents.</blockquote>

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