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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Reynard" data-source="post: 3812860" data-attributes="member: 467">Orcus from Necromancer has suggested that he is going to do D&D "right" regardless of what 4E says in the books.  that gives me a little hope.  However, i wonder if it will even be possible.  Given that WotC learned the hard way -- it isn't their fault, no one had done such a thing before -- that they'd be creating their own competition with d20 and the OGL, I highly doubt they'll do the same with whatever form the OGL takes with 4E.  And since companies like Paizo -- what was essentially an arm of WotC less than 6 months ago, and a company that was at least 25% responsible for making 3.5 good -- haven't even been offered up an SRD or an OGL this late in the game suggests WotC/Hasbro legal is still wrangling with the idea.I figure we'll see something along the lines of a "Powered by D&D 4th Edition" logo thing, with much more strict rules about compliance and product types, than we saw with 3E.  I am guessing that the language of the license will not allow for things like M&M or Conan.  Ultimately, WotC learned that there's lots of talented people out there, and some of them have the money to put where their mouths were and that D&D belongs to whoever buys whatever supplements, not a singular company.My quiet little dream is that 4E falls flat on its face because WotC decided, somehow (where's the market research coming from, anyway) that people that play D&D want it to be more Guild Wars and less, well, D&D.  Guess what?  People that prefer Guild Wars, they play Guild Wars*.  D&D is a tabletop game with a long history and a powerful tradition in its "sacred cows".  Tossing those things away in favor of getting the MMO players to sit down at a table a) won't work and b) should result in a marketplace smackdown.*Note:  I am going to call it right now.  The first computer/video game to be labelled as being based on the 4E ruleset -- you know it is already in development -- will be a Guild Wars clone.Also, I think that one of the reasons WotC is making such an effort to change so much with 4E -- core mechanics and flavor alike -- is to avoid the inevitable OGL based 4E reto-engineering.  they don't want, i don't think, third party companies to be able to do whatever theyw ant with the 4E rules, and if they move far enough away from 3E, they have a leg to stand on when they claim some companies 4E-based product is not, in fact, derivative of Open Content.</blockquote>

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