*grin*
Oh yeah, forgot that part of my evil conspiracy theorist version of the far future.
Hasbro then hires a team of editors working in third world country sweat shops for minimum wage to take everyone else's OGC and re-release it under the OGL 4.0 so that they now 'officially' own all the OGC out there, etc etc...
Ok, I'm fairly good at Devil's advocate but this is starting to go over the edge of rediculous even for me. We all know there is never going to be total revision of D&D ever again because its all out there and everything that could possibly come out is just going to be recompilations of OGC into new books. I forsee re-classification and expansion of the Feat and Skill systems.. Eventually moving saving throws and BAB into skills themselves. Someone eventually moving the combat system into a point based count... Stuff like that.
Hell, maybe I'll do it.
-Bill (Who wanders off mumbling to himself because the editorial sweatshops threw him too much)
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Except #9 of the current license says that you can "...use ANY [emphasis mine] authorized version of this License...." Even if they would put that odious requirement in, I could happily churn out material under the current version.
Paul W. King
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Here's a Hypothetical Conspiracy Theorist version of what could happen:
Say that somewhere down the road Hasbro starts to market D&D4E.. The fourth edition of the worlds most popular roleplaying game. In order to better its chances in the market they decide to sabatoge those 3rd party products that have been coming out and doing so well on the market. So they draft up OGL version 4.0.
Version 4.0 is very similar to Version 1.0 with the following exception(in not very-legalese): #15. As this Lisence is property of Hasbro, all derivative works are now considered works belonging to Hasbro as well. In order to gain permission, go to www.harbro.com/weownyou to fill out a request form.
Now, this might be something of a stretch (and could be argued in
court) but at the same time noone has officially argued the OGL in court yet either and honestly, a change like this in or out of court would end up sending the whole thing down the river with very little to show for it.
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