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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Storm Raven" data-source="post: 2504260" data-attributes="member: 307">Go back to about 1996 and see how healthy TSR was then. WotC going it alone, and letting the hobby wither like it did back then would return everything to that era. And TSR didn't do well with that marketing model. I'm not saying it is certain that WotC will continue the OGL with 4e, if and when it is published, after all, companies do dumb things sometimes. BUt eh smart move for WotC would be to continue to OGL, for their own benefit.And that is why companies publishing under the SRD don't have much to worry about. If you are publishing something right now using the current SRD that is completely unattached to the PHB, and WotC switches to an OGLess 4e, why do you care? Are you in a better position or a worse position than if you had your own "house" game system for your game? How would your situation be any worse than that of a publisher who has their own rule system? Both of you are now incompatible with D&D, but you are likely to be much closer for people who want to convert your stuff to D&D.</blockquote>