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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 6334698" data-attributes="member: 996"><p>It's obvious from a few comments that Mearls hates specific 4e-isms, like the Warlord. But it's quite a stretch from that to actively disliking a game he worked on for it's entire run - and helmed for the last few years. (I mean, you'd have to figure that he was actively trying to wreck 4e rather than save it through the post-Essentials years...) </p><p></p><p>Anyway, the excuse offered for those modules has generally been that they were done & off to the printers /before/ the 4e rules were finalized. So, mere sloppiness, rather than active sabotage.</p><p></p><p> The demand would have to be huge to outweigh the risk of WotC pulling the GSL (which it can at any time). In contrast, the OGL is irrevocable. Thus, even if the d20 market were a fraction the size of the 4e market, it'd still make more sense for smaller 3pps to keep producing OGL rather than GSL products. What's more, even if such rampant demand did materialize, it'd only make it that much more likely that WotC would pull the license, to undercut any competition trying to use it.</p><p></p><p>So, really, the chance of a 3pp picking up and supporting 4e through a Pathfinder-like product is nil. It would be such a long-shot legal gamble that no one would be foolish enough to risk it. You might get a fan-based product, but if there were any risk of it gaining any notice or following, WotC would just C&D it into oblivion.</p><p></p><p>One thing WotC (or rather, Hasbro) wanted out of rolling rev in 2008 was to kill the OGL, and take back control of the property. They obviously failed at the first, but they made sure of the second.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tony Vargas, post: 6334698, member: 996"] It's obvious from a few comments that Mearls hates specific 4e-isms, like the Warlord. But it's quite a stretch from that to actively disliking a game he worked on for it's entire run - and helmed for the last few years. (I mean, you'd have to figure that he was actively trying to wreck 4e rather than save it through the post-Essentials years...) Anyway, the excuse offered for those modules has generally been that they were done & off to the printers /before/ the 4e rules were finalized. So, mere sloppiness, rather than active sabotage. The demand would have to be huge to outweigh the risk of WotC pulling the GSL (which it can at any time). In contrast, the OGL is irrevocable. Thus, even if the d20 market were a fraction the size of the 4e market, it'd still make more sense for smaller 3pps to keep producing OGL rather than GSL products. What's more, even if such rampant demand did materialize, it'd only make it that much more likely that WotC would pull the license, to undercut any competition trying to use it. So, really, the chance of a 3pp picking up and supporting 4e through a Pathfinder-like product is nil. It would be such a long-shot legal gamble that no one would be foolish enough to risk it. You might get a fan-based product, but if there were any risk of it gaining any notice or following, WotC would just C&D it into oblivion. One thing WotC (or rather, Hasbro) wanted out of rolling rev in 2008 was to kill the OGL, and take back control of the property. They obviously failed at the first, but they made sure of the second. [/QUOTE]
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