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<blockquote data-quote="EvilPheemy" data-source="post: 3480155" data-attributes="member: 3700">How much different from 3.x ed can 4e really be?&nbsp; I just don't see any revision being so radical as to force products designed on the SRD unplayable.&nbsp; 4th ed will most likely be successful and the 3.x supplements already in the market will still be useful (and most of those supplements will eventually be replaced by 4e product).&nbsp; As we've seen with the 3.0 -&gt; 3.5 revision, that sort of replacement takes months.I'd say that the biggest impact a 4e future line would make would be the development and release of yet another &quot;official&quot; WotC setting to showcase the new edition.So far as the OGL goes, it will stay around.&nbsp; Even if no one is publishing from it (though that would be unlikely, I'm pretty sure that the True20 system isn't going anywhere anytime soon).Even the material published for 1st ed AD&amp;D can still be used for 3.x.&nbsp; I'd also bet real spendable Yankee dollars that those gamers who still play 1e, 2e, Basic, and all of the other pre WotC variant Dungeons and Dragons players know how to adapt those bits and pieces of new product which they like to their preferred game system.Of course, none of this will prevent a whole new rousing chorus of &quot;edition wars&quot;.&nbsp; I'm getting my &quot;WotC is the Debil!&quot; protest sign out of storage this weekend in order to fix it up and be ready for the new release!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="EvilPheemy, post: 3480155, member: 3700"] How much different from 3.x ed can 4e really be? I just don't see any revision being so radical as to force products designed on the SRD unplayable. 4th ed will most likely be successful and the 3.x supplements already in the market will still be useful (and most of those supplements will eventually be replaced by 4e product). As we've seen with the 3.0 -> 3.5 revision, that sort of replacement takes months. I'd say that the biggest impact a 4e future line would make would be the development and release of yet another "official" WotC setting to showcase the new edition. So far as the OGL goes, it will stay around. Even if no one is publishing from it (though that would be unlikely, I'm pretty sure that the True20 system isn't going anywhere anytime soon). Even the material published for 1st ed AD&D can still be used for 3.x. I'd also bet real spendable Yankee dollars that those gamers who still play 1e, 2e, Basic, and all of the other pre WotC variant Dungeons and Dragons players know how to adapt those bits and pieces of new product which they like to their preferred game system. Of course, none of this will prevent a whole new rousing chorus of "edition wars". I'm getting my "WotC is the Debil!" protest sign out of storage this weekend in order to fix it up and be ready for the new release! [/QUOTE]

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