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<blockquote data-quote="MoogleEmpMog" data-source="post: 3468207" data-attributes="member: 22882">1) I doubt it.&nbsp; Magic's site is the important one; D&amp;D and all its kin are a comparative sideshow, so why expect people to pay for them but not for the one with a much bigger fanbase?&nbsp; Besides, the 'pay only' model is the e-zine model, which usually fails.&nbsp; See ign.com for a good example of how successful sites divide pay and free content.2) However, I do expect there will be strong connections between the pay and free content; possibly fluff will be free and cruch pay, as one poster here on ENWorld suggested.&nbsp; The idea will be to put up high quality free material that makes you want the pay material more than you thought you did.&nbsp; In that sense, you could call it 'previews' of the pay material.3) I doubt it.&nbsp; There doesn't seem to be enough of a market for them to really worry about this.&nbsp; It's more likely that the option of getting .pdf 'collections' of material will be part of the paysite.4) Possibly true.&nbsp; Both Wizards and 3rd party publishers have arguably drifted pretty far from the original intent of the OGL, which was for them to produce adventures, settings, and supplements so Wizards could make the big bucks on core books.&nbsp; Now 3rd parties make core books and Wizards makes supplements; go figure.5) This is almost certainly true.&nbsp; Since the OGL didn't really do what its creators hoped it would, and those creators aren't part of the company anymore, why would they release a new OGL?6) You overstate the impact of 'compatible with D&amp;D 3rd party products;' that field is virtually dead nowadays anyway.&nbsp; The big OGL publishers (Green Ronin, Mongoose and Troll Lord) are selling their own systems and aren't compatible even now.&nbsp; I suspect 4e D&amp;D will be very much a refinement of what we're seeing from Star Wars Saga - which is probably different enough to make conversion difficult, admittedly - because SWS seems like it has a better, more playable, more marketable design.7) Probably true.&nbsp; TSR's RPGA was subscriber only.&nbsp; I'm amazed Wizards decoupled the organization from subscription services to begin with.&nbsp; Certainly if they intend to make greater use of their web initiative in concert with organized play, which would be a huge benefit for them and for organized play gamers, they'll tie it into the broader subscription service.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MoogleEmpMog, post: 3468207, member: 22882"] 1) I doubt it. Magic's site is the important one; D&D and all its kin are a comparative sideshow, so why expect people to pay for them but not for the one with a much bigger fanbase? Besides, the 'pay only' model is the e-zine model, which usually fails. See ign.com for a good example of how successful sites divide pay and free content. 2) However, I do expect there will be strong connections between the pay and free content; possibly fluff will be free and cruch pay, as one poster here on ENWorld suggested. The idea will be to put up high quality free material that makes you want the pay material more than you thought you did. In that sense, you could call it 'previews' of the pay material. 3) I doubt it. There doesn't seem to be enough of a market for them to really worry about this. It's more likely that the option of getting .pdf 'collections' of material will be part of the paysite. 4) Possibly true. Both Wizards and 3rd party publishers have arguably drifted pretty far from the original intent of the OGL, which was for them to produce adventures, settings, and supplements so Wizards could make the big bucks on core books. Now 3rd parties make core books and Wizards makes supplements; go figure. 5) This is almost certainly true. Since the OGL didn't really do what its creators hoped it would, and those creators aren't part of the company anymore, why would they release a new OGL? 6) You overstate the impact of 'compatible with D&D 3rd party products;' that field is virtually dead nowadays anyway. The big OGL publishers (Green Ronin, Mongoose and Troll Lord) are selling their own systems and aren't compatible even now. I suspect 4e D&D will be very much a refinement of what we're seeing from Star Wars Saga - which is probably different enough to make conversion difficult, admittedly - because SWS seems like it has a better, more playable, more marketable design. 7) Probably true. TSR's RPGA was subscriber only. I'm amazed Wizards decoupled the organization from subscription services to begin with. Certainly if they intend to make greater use of their web initiative in concert with organized play, which would be a huge benefit for them and for organized play gamers, they'll tie it into the broader subscription service. [/QUOTE]

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