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<blockquote data-quote="Mark CMG" data-source="post: 3476398" data-attributes="member: 10479">If you mean that people will not want to always play a 3.5 D&amp;D game I do not disagree.&nbsp; Surely something will come along that will have people interested in trying something different.&nbsp; But I think you might be misreading what some people are meaning.&nbsp; If I am not mistaken, some people are making the point that the OGL is in place forever and that any materials released under will always be available for use under that license.&nbsp; There may even be a great many games that will utilize those OGC materials yet appear to be quite different from 3.5 D&amp;D, some of those might even be the ones that replace D&amp;D in some people's hearts.&nbsp; Of course, I might be misreading what you are saying, too.To speak more to the point of the thread title -Fewer people would be self-publishing, I think, but that is not to say that 4E would be so different from 3.5E so as to make publishing materials that could be used in D&amp;D games particularly difficult.&nbsp; How tough it will be to attract customers without the d20 System License and logo is a matter of debate but, for ePublishers, doesn't seem a huge hurdle.&nbsp; People are always using cross-system materials and once a customer realizes they can use certain materials with little to no conversion at all word gets around fairly quickly.&nbsp; Heck, if you want to go a rout that I always felt uncomfortable exploiting, even one of the guys who was around in the early days with the OGL, and happens to be a lawyer, has always made a point of trotting out the phrase &quot;can be used with the world's most popular roleplaying game&quot; and must figure he can get away with it.&nbsp; I don't think it is a coincidence that phrase has been recently in the posts of the soon-to-be former publisher of the two officially stamped magazines, who recently brought under wing a certain company who likes to tout which edition gives them their feel.&nbsp; So, it probably boils down to just how different 4E is from 3.5 and, to my mind, it would have to be incredibly different to make difficulties for any OGL-based company who still wanted to put out game material that people would find and buy and use for the 4E games.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mark CMG, post: 3476398, member: 10479"] If you mean that people will not want to always play a 3.5 D&D game I do not disagree. Surely something will come along that will have people interested in trying something different. But I think you might be misreading what some people are meaning. If I am not mistaken, some people are making the point that the OGL is in place forever and that any materials released under will always be available for use under that license. There may even be a great many games that will utilize those OGC materials yet appear to be quite different from 3.5 D&D, some of those might even be the ones that replace D&D in some people's hearts. Of course, I might be misreading what you are saying, too. To speak more to the point of the thread title - Fewer people would be self-publishing, I think, but that is not to say that 4E would be so different from 3.5E so as to make publishing materials that could be used in D&D games particularly difficult. How tough it will be to attract customers without the d20 System License and logo is a matter of debate but, for ePublishers, doesn't seem a huge hurdle. People are always using cross-system materials and once a customer realizes they can use certain materials with little to no conversion at all word gets around fairly quickly. Heck, if you want to go a rout that I always felt uncomfortable exploiting, even one of the guys who was around in the early days with the OGL, and happens to be a lawyer, has always made a point of trotting out the phrase "can be used with the world's most popular roleplaying game" and must figure he can get away with it. I don't think it is a coincidence that phrase has been recently in the posts of the soon-to-be former publisher of the two officially stamped magazines, who recently brought under wing a certain company who likes to tout which edition gives them their feel. So, it probably boils down to just how different 4E is from 3.5 and, to my mind, it would have to be incredibly different to make difficulties for any OGL-based company who still wanted to put out game material that people would find and buy and use for the 4E games. [/QUOTE]

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