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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chaltab" data-source="post: 6329973" data-attributes="member: 6775806">The OGL essentially gave away a lot of the rules framework for D&D, which went beyond allowing third party supplements into allowing third party competitive products, able to lift huge chunks of the d20 rules whole cloth and stick them in their own games. Spycraft, Fantasy Craft, Mutants and Masterminds, and numerous 'd20' versions of other games came into existence, culminating in Pathfinder.Because of this, WOTC was, ah, a bit overzealous in the liscence agreement for 4th Edition, especially about what wording can't be reproduced and the sort of content that can be included (not wanting a repeat of the Book of Erotic Fantasy). This led to a number of 3PPs simply not supporting D&D at all through 4th Edition's life, either because Paizo made it convenient for them to stick to the older ruleset or because they were afraid of being steamrolled by Hasbro lawyers. There's some 4E 3PP material out there, including EN Publishing's 'Zeitgeist', but yeah a lot of developers took the path of <s>radiance</s> least resistance. I think repairing the relationships with 3PPs who aren't Paizo is kind of a big priority for WOTC this time around.</blockquote>