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<blockquote data-quote="TheLe" data-source="post: 2388175" data-attributes="member: 3981">According to my insider sources, Hasbro/Wotc tried to sell off D&amp;D completely a couple years ago. The leading buyer was actually Games Workshop, but the deal fell through for some reason. Actually, part of it was because the movie rights and a couple others were already licensed off to others, so you would essentially be buying an incomplete product. I believe the price tag was $30 million if memory serves (I will have to check).On that note, I believe that 4e is on the way in 2006, but no later than 2007. And I also believe that 4e will not be OGL.The way wotc works (ie the Collectable Card game model), is to release new updates and what not every year or year and a half. And a couple other insiders I talked to also believe that 2006&nbsp; would be the target date.What does this mean? It means we will go back to all &quot;Dungeons and Dragons&quot; books being made exclusively by wotc and their close partners, leaving little d20 publishers like me out in the cold. We did our job to help bring D&amp;D to the masses, and now wotc will benefit with the next release.I hate it, but I can't really blame them. There is a huge market out there that guys like me help create, and if wotc was the sole maker of those supplements, then they are looking at a huge source of income.But will I buy 4e? Nope. I got the 3.5 SRDs.~Le, aka The Le Games</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TheLe, post: 2388175, member: 3981"] According to my insider sources, Hasbro/Wotc tried to sell off D&D completely a couple years ago. The leading buyer was actually [i]Games Workshop[/i], but the deal fell through for some reason. Actually, part of it was because the movie rights and a couple others were already licensed off to others, so you would essentially be buying an incomplete product. I believe the price tag was $30 million if memory serves (I will have to check). On that note, I believe that 4e is on the way in 2006, but no later than 2007. And I also believe that 4e will [b]not[/b] be OGL. The way wotc works (ie the Collectable Card game model), is to release new updates and what not every year or year and a half. And a couple other insiders I talked to also believe that 2006 would be the target date. What does this mean? It means we will go back to all "Dungeons and Dragons" books being made exclusively by wotc and their close partners, leaving little d20 publishers like me out in the cold. We did our job to help bring D&D to the masses, and now wotc will benefit with the next release. I hate it, but I can't really blame them. There is a huge market out there that guys like me help create, and if wotc was the sole maker of those supplements, then they are looking at a huge source of income. But will [b]I[/b] buy 4e? Nope. I got the 3.5 SRDs. ~Le, aka The Le Games [/QUOTE]

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