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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 3982461" data-attributes="member: 710">I am not sure about this either, but then, maybe the OGL for 3.x (assuming it can't suddenly be made illegal, which the reference to "this particular version" seems to confirm) would be sufficient for such products. But would something like Arcana Evolved or Iron Heroes still be possible? How much of a constraint is the fact that there are classes in the PHB and so on?Thiscould alleviate a lot of problems. If this implies that there will be a 4E d20 Modern game (this is alone would be great news to me!). Apparently they are planning to have multiple OGLs. Reminds me of "Creative Commons" Licenses. The CCLs grant different rights to users, depending on the preference of the author. Or like the GPL (GNU Public License) and LGPL (Lesser GPL). The GPL one requires derived products to use a fully compatible GPL license (meaning GPL libraries are usually not useable by any party that wants to create "closed source" products based on open source). T...Waiting to 2009 for most 3rd party products? Wow, that's some time. But then, I guess the WotC products and "Phase I" products will be sufficient to keep me busy. It's not like I use a lot of non-WotC books in the first place. (But maybe they should consider shifting it to December, 1st of 2008? Or do they want to avoid that?)I have trouble determining how "much" the 5,000 $ initial fee for the Phase I really is to the "big names" of the OGL market, but I guess it's the price that WotC deemed appropriate to ensure that enough of the big names will invest the money, and that the "riff-raff" stays out. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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