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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 6307507" data-attributes="member: 58197">Actually, that raises an interesting point. After 5E is released, there will remain a substantial number of hardcore 4E fans who don't want to make the switch. I could well imagine that some of them will try using the OGL to "pull a Pathfinder" and continue 4E in a new incarnation. (Though I suspect the end result would be more OSRIC than Pathfinder.) It'll be interesting to see.The way markets work is that producers offer various products. People buy the products. The good ones sell well. The bad ones sell poorly and their producers go out of business. But for that to happen, someone has to buy the bad products and find out they're bad! Regulations exist to ensure that "finding out the product is bad" isn't fatal. That isn't a common issue with RPGs*.As I said a while back, you can't lawyer your way out of Sturgeon's Law. There will always be lots of crap out there. And there will always be folks coming along with new products to sell, and most of those new products will suck. But under the proper circumstances--lots of buyers, lots of sellers, no major information asymmetries, et cetera--markets work quite well to drive the sellers of bad products out of business and help the sellers of good products thrive.[SIZE=-2]*Although you might find out the product is FATAL, which is bad.[/SIZE]</blockquote>