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<blockquote data-quote="Dire Bare" data-source="post: 6664402" data-attributes="member: 18182">I was going to add quotes from almost all of your posts after this one, but . . . Let's just say I disagree and feel you are stating as fact what is actually misinformed supposition.Firstly, while 4E is no longer being published (although you can still subscribe to the DDI tools), it is not remotely &quot;dead&quot;. No more so than any other prior edition of the game. Each edition, including 4th, has its fans who still play the game and have fun doing so.Whether the 4E GSL was too restrictive is a matter of opinion. Certainly, not as many publishers took advantage of it as did the 3E OGL &amp; d20 License, but that also has a lot to do with the &quot;d20 Bust&quot; that occurred towards the end of 3E's publishing era. More than a handful of publishers, both big and small (relatively for our industry), created fantastic D&amp;D supplements for 4E using the GSL, or by adapting the 3E OGL and by following general copyright law. Just as they are doing right now for 5E, which doesn't have any sort of license at the moment.Also, WotC does not sue fans who create and post their own D&amp;D creations to the web, such as fan-created characters, monsters, magic items, house rules, campaign settings, etc, etc. WotC does, on occasion, send out C&amp;D letters to fans and publishers who misuse their IP, most often in electronic game aids or things like spell cards, and they are very right to do so. They haven't done this often, and to my knowledge, haven't followed up any of the C&amp;Ds with actual lawsuits (mostly because the recipients of the C&amp;Ds complied with the requests).And . . . ah, nevermind.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dire Bare, post: 6664402, member: 18182"] I was going to add quotes from almost all of your posts after this one, but . . . Let's just say I disagree and feel you are stating as fact what is actually misinformed supposition. Firstly, while 4E is no longer being published (although you can still subscribe to the DDI tools), it is not remotely "dead". No more so than any other prior edition of the game. Each edition, including 4th, has its fans who still play the game and have fun doing so. Whether the 4E GSL was too restrictive is a matter of opinion. Certainly, not as many publishers took advantage of it as did the 3E OGL & d20 License, but that also has a lot to do with the "d20 Bust" that occurred towards the end of 3E's publishing era. More than a handful of publishers, both big and small (relatively for our industry), created fantastic D&D supplements for 4E using the GSL, or by adapting the 3E OGL and by following general copyright law. Just as they are doing right now for 5E, which doesn't have any sort of license at the moment. Also, WotC does not sue fans who create and post their own D&D creations to the web, such as fan-created characters, monsters, magic items, house rules, campaign settings, etc, etc. WotC does, on occasion, send out C&D letters to fans and publishers who misuse their IP, most often in electronic game aids or things like spell cards, and they are very right to do so. They haven't done this often, and to my knowledge, haven't followed up any of the C&Ds with actual lawsuits (mostly because the recipients of the C&Ds complied with the requests). And . . . ah, nevermind. [/QUOTE]

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