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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BryonD" data-source="post: 5446940" data-attributes="member: 957">I actually doubt that.Right now choosing to play 4E or Pathfinder or straight 3X or any other RPG are all valid options.If someone prefers 4E to Pathfinder then they would spend their money on 4E.  The OGL won't do anything about that.  (Yes, there may be some exceptions of people who prefer 4E but their group plays PF.  But if D&D is the 800 lb gorilla, that should hurt PF much more than 4E, so lets just call it a wash and move on.)Very, very few people are so rabidly loyal to the concept of Open Gaming that they will choose their system on that basis.  They are not non-existent, but they are pretty negligible to the market.I guess you could argue that there are people who only play PF as their game of choice and only support one game AND 4E is their no prize second place.  But again, how many people do you really think that is?If WotC makes a game that the market overwhelming wants, the OGL won't be the slightest speed bump.  You may argue that some people would have defaulted to following 4E had PF not jumped up as an "anti-4E" of sorts.  Again, I doubt that would have been THAT many people.  But assume it was significant.  The popularity of 4E is waning already amongst people who DIDN'T jump ship for PF.  I think is is safe to say that those who were ambivalent enough to jump at the get go would have already left faster than those who stuck around.GURPS is a competitor to 4E.  Warhammer is a competitor to 4E.  D20 games are a competitor to 4E.  People play the game they want to play.Is there an effect?  Maybe some.Is it a "huge chunk"?  No, not close.</blockquote>

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