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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mordane76" data-source="post: 2689369" data-attributes="member: 7172">*The following is pure speculation/whimsy on my part, and should be read with this in mind*I didn't hear this from anyone, but just reading through all this it came to me as a logical possibility:If Wizards wanted to "build on the success of M:tG" without alienating either market, and possibly drawing people from the CCG to the RPG, why not turn one of the expansion set worlds from M:tG into a setting for D&D?  Doesn't alienate either market, possibly crosses people in both directions (new setting for RPGers possibly sparks interest in M:tG and CCG players who've played the setting take another look at RPG), and only costs Wizards the time and money required to flesh out an already skeletonized setting unlike trying to build one from scratch.  They release the new setting at the same time as 4E, so now you have two immediate world options for 4E right out of the gate: Greyhawk and M:tG expansion world.Even given this scenario, 4E will still likely be several years into the future, and with no guarantee that the OGL would remain in effect for 4E, it might be in WotC's interest to prime a setting for an edition that would pare out the third party producers.</blockquote>