Dale Friesen <dalef@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Ubiquitous <weberm@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> Will WotC be continuing OGL in the newest edition?
>
> The new edition will be released under the GSL (Game System License). We
> don't know yet what it's like, other than the fact that it's not just a
> new version of the OGL.
Heya Dale. How goes?
It seems, from the license announcement and various commentary, that the
4e 'GSL' is intended and designed to be as WotC had expected the 3e OGL
to work. You get to write and publish using the rules presented in the
4e books, but you are expected to limit yourself to settings, modules,
and maybe rules supplements -- the relatively unprofitable bits. I've
read an analysis that the OGL wasn't 'intended' to do what it did, make
it possible for anyone and his dog to put together an SRD do***ent and
republish it, nor to heavily modify the rules for other purposes, and
otherwise make profitable use of the OGC.
I don't know how accurate that analysis is, but I can certainly believe
WotC didn't expect things to go the way they did, and that Hasbro wants
to 'fix' that.
Keith
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