The role Green Ronin Publishing will play in the 4th Edition Dungeons & Dragons landscape is still to be determined. It is the middle of March and it has been almost ten weeks since we and others were invited to participate in a conference call with Wizards of the Coast about the future of third party publishing and their plans for the new edition
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I personally believe that 3rd editions success was partly due to the furrow plowed by Green Ronin first and the other early adopters soon afterwards. It upped everybodys game and I would bet that Wizards benefited far more than they lost out from having other quality publishers doing OGL books.
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I don't really believe that accusation because I'm a firm believer in the axiom of not attributing to malice what can be attributed to incompetence.
I'm just asking: Is WotC aware of how seriously damaging this delay is to its reputation among distributors, companies, and customers? Have you overheard anything you can repeat?
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That still amazes me. Why bother with the call if there's still nothing to provide your potential third-party partners after ten weeks?
You would think the GSL would be done, approved, and in hand before contacting any partners on a call like that.
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