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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 3981749" data-attributes="member: 2067">Which, really, makes it even LESS useful for publishers who are interested in dramatic diversions from the PHB to bother with. Which might mean that we do get a lot of oblique references for those that want to abandon the PHB -- different settings, genres, etc. won't need to reference the SRD, because the SRD doesn't contain anything of use itself. Instead, they'll go the AE/IH route of "wink-wink-nudge-nudge" near-compatibility. Because if I can't take, say, a Pegasus from the SRD and reprint it in my book without paying WotC, my incentive to use a Pegasus is greatly diminished. Now I'll call it a "winged horse," make up similar stats (maybe divergent in one or two ways), and say "enjoy!"This really, REALLY encourages 3rd party publishers to start putting their stuff up for free in as many places as possible, because we won't have the common ground of the SRD to pull from. The ToH4e monsters really have potential to be the first monsters that we see in 3rd party adventures and the like. Really, what this does is turn 3rd party publishers into D&D-supplement publishers. That is what a lot of them were to begin with, but companies like Mongoose moved quite far afield of that, and I think WotC limiting the market in this is just going to lead to a lot of the nudge-wink kind of compatibility reference when something falls outside of their tight limits. I think 4e will see a lot of game systems that are closely similar to D&D but that call things by subtly different names, or change minor mechanics elements...a lot of house rules for systems that are called COMPLETELY different things.And I wonder if the 4e OGL, like the d20STL that it resembles, will survive to the next edition.</blockquote>

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