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<blockquote data-quote="CleverNickName" data-source="post: 8229475" data-attributes="member: 50987"><p>It's hard to say just how damaging the GSL was to 4th Edition, but I'm inclined to agree. The GSL was a course-correction for the company, intended to protect their IP from direct competition...it was necessary, and it worked. I think it went too far, though, and caused things to cascade in the wrong direction for the brand. The GSL was less useful to third-party publishers, so less third-party material was published under it, so the 4E brand shrank while the Pathfinder brand grew, which made 4E appear weaker than it really was (and made Pathfinder appear stronger than it really was), and down the ladder we went.</p><p></p><p>I feel like 4E didn't really get a chance to grow...or at least not enough of a chance. I'm happy that things turned around for WotC with the 5th Edition. (Thanks, I'm sure in no small part, to the DM's Guild and its "community content" program.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CleverNickName, post: 8229475, member: 50987"] It's hard to say just how damaging the GSL was to 4th Edition, but I'm inclined to agree. The GSL was a course-correction for the company, intended to protect their IP from direct competition...it was necessary, and it worked. I think it went too far, though, and caused things to cascade in the wrong direction for the brand. The GSL was less useful to third-party publishers, so less third-party material was published under it, so the 4E brand shrank while the Pathfinder brand grew, which made 4E appear weaker than it really was (and made Pathfinder appear stronger than it really was), and down the ladder we went. I feel like 4E didn't really get a chance to grow...or at least not enough of a chance. I'm happy that things turned around for WotC with the 5th Edition. (Thanks, I'm sure in no small part, to the DM's Guild and its "community content" program.) [/QUOTE]
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