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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8835016" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>It's sufficiently restrictive that there's basically no point. It was intentionally designed to prevent a Pathfinder situation from reoccurring with 4E, and to the extent that it has prevented that, it was successful. It also managed to convince most 3PPs it wasn't worth making material for 4E at all, so that's maybe less helpful but I don't think WotC cared much until they saw Pathfinder peeling away a large chunk of their audience.</p><p></p><p>There's no OGC with the GSL, there's thus no SRD in any meaningful sense (there is one, but it's obviously almost entirely without value as it doesn't really have any rules in or anything, just formats), you have to sign a document and send it to WotC to use it, and worst of all, WotC can revoke it at any time. I suspect only the fact that no-one uses it has prevented them from doing that revocation.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8835016, member: 18"] It's sufficiently restrictive that there's basically no point. It was intentionally designed to prevent a Pathfinder situation from reoccurring with 4E, and to the extent that it has prevented that, it was successful. It also managed to convince most 3PPs it wasn't worth making material for 4E at all, so that's maybe less helpful but I don't think WotC cared much until they saw Pathfinder peeling away a large chunk of their audience. There's no OGC with the GSL, there's thus no SRD in any meaningful sense (there is one, but it's obviously almost entirely without value as it doesn't really have any rules in or anything, just formats), you have to sign a document and send it to WotC to use it, and worst of all, WotC can revoke it at any time. I suspect only the fact that no-one uses it has prevented them from doing that revocation. [/QUOTE]
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