Dale Friesen wrote:
> Del Rio wrote:
>
>> I bet the
>> idea behind the GSL is going to be, "let's let people create stuff that
>> requires you to own D&D 4e books to play." I'm betting that the only
>> version of the 4e rules that anyone will be allowed to publish will be
>> in the D&D 4e core books, thus making them requirements in order to
>> play any game that is based on the 4e equivalent of d20.
>
> Yes, I expect that to be the case, too.
>
> But is that so unreasonable?
Yes. It's bad for their customers, bad for RPG writers, bad for the
game stores, bad for the popularity of the hobby, and very bad for them
in the long run due to all those factors.
> It's costing them a bunch of money to create 4e, so if people are going
> to be playing it then why shouldn't Hasbro require them to use the
> Hasbro edition of the rules?
Because 90% of a million people is less than 50% of two million. They
recover their costs best of all by growing the hobby, rather than seeking
to monopolise the tiny group of people that play it now.
It'll sell less miniatures if there's no 3rd party flood of content
for it, they'll have nothing to benchmark themselves against, and the
next Mike Mearls might never come to be.
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