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Title: D&D 4th Edition Game System License Announced
Post by: OneST8 on April 18, 2008, 12:42:36 pm

Quote from: Slashdot Article

Wizards of the Coast has announced plans for a brand-new system license for the fourth edition of Dungeons and Dragons (http://wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/4news/20080417a). As with the d20 STL for Third Edition, this is a royalty-free license that will allow third parties to publish products using the rules developed by WotC. The new system reference document (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Reference_Document) will be made available early in June (just after the release of the new edition). That license only covers fantasy gaming, but a second license (the d20 GSL) will be released allowing for any type of gaming product to be developed. For analysis and follow-up on the announcement (http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?p=4170132#post4170132), the ENWorld boards have full details.

-- Entire quote taken straight from the Slashdot article (http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/17/2144248).

Title: Re: D&D 4th Edition Game System License Announced
Post by: lonnarin on April 18, 2008, 02:17:02 pm

Open unless you want to make something in a video game of course.  Then the open license converts into an ironclad monopoly held by the company who dropped the ball with NWN2.

Title: Re: D&D 4th Edition Game System License Announced
Post by: Pen N Popper on April 18, 2008, 03:57:47 pm

For those curious about NWN vs. NWN2 stats:  GameSpy.com - Gimme The Stats! (http://archive.gamespy.com/stats/)

At this moment, 2513 on 737 servers for NWN, and 687 on 196 servers for NWN2.