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<blockquote data-quote="jmucchiello" data-source="post: 4958709" data-attributes="member: 813">I don't think WotC cares one way or the other. They decided that it would be too expensive for WotC to churn out a lot of adventures so rather than cut off the OGL completely, they baleful polymorphed it into the GSL and hoped someone might take up the slack.Okay, I don't really mean to qualify it that way. I just wanted to use baleful poymorph in a sentence. Seriously....WotC didn't want a Mutants and Masterminds-style 4e clone to become the next breakthrough product for the next Green Ronin clone. So they crafted the GSL to make innovation IMPOSSIBLE. Let me rephrase that: The GSL is DESIGNED to make INNOVATION impossible.Creative types wilt when their ability to innovate is squelched. So all these limitations on what you can do result in an unsatisfying environment for 3pp 4e designers. There are exceptions. There are always exceptions. But the way the world works I would expect that after then galaxy loads of folks who attempted to be 3pps during 3e that the number would be even bigger during 4e. It is not. It is smaller. There is something keeping people from scratching their RPG design itch with the 4e GSL. And that is because it is designed to keep out the innovators who would make the actual D&amp;D books unnecessary.I hope you enjoyed the yarn I've just spun. Let me repeat my main point though: WotC doesn't care if 3pps ever make another adventure.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jmucchiello, post: 4958709, member: 813"] I don't think WotC cares one way or the other. They decided that it would be too expensive for WotC to churn out a lot of adventures so rather than cut off the OGL completely, they baleful polymorphed it into the GSL and hoped someone might take up the slack. Okay, I don't really mean to qualify it that way. I just wanted to use baleful poymorph in a sentence. Seriously.... WotC didn't want a Mutants and Masterminds-style 4e clone to become the next breakthrough product for the next Green Ronin clone. So they crafted the GSL to make innovation IMPOSSIBLE. Let me rephrase that: The GSL is DESIGNED to make INNOVATION impossible. Creative types wilt when their ability to innovate is squelched. So all these limitations on what you can do result in an unsatisfying environment for 3pp 4e designers. There are exceptions. There are always exceptions. But the way the world works I would expect that after then galaxy loads of folks who attempted to be 3pps during 3e that the number would be even bigger during 4e. It is not. It is smaller. There is something keeping people from scratching their RPG design itch with the 4e GSL. And that is because it is designed to keep out the innovators who would make the actual D&D books unnecessary. I hope you enjoyed the yarn I've just spun. Let me repeat my main point though: WotC doesn't care if 3pps ever make another adventure. [/QUOTE]

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