Those of you that follow Wizards of the Coast and the Dungeons and Dragons RPG, yesterday was the day the GSL went live. Companies that wanted to write material compatable with Fourth Edition of Dungeons and Dragons can do so with the Game System License, or GSL for short. The GSL, as it stands right now is not a document that affords quality protection for licensee companies. Wizards could shut them down with a casual stroke. While I do not believe that Wizards today will do that, Wizards today is not the Wizards of 8 years ago and there is no reason to expect that the Wizards of 8 years from now will be the same entity.
Yes, Wizards is making changes to the license, but who knows when that will come. Its also true that these changes are because Necromancer Games said they cannot work with the license as written. But it is also true that there very nearly was no license at all.
In short, I don’t see a long term future with D&D so I decided a while ago to write for other systems. Pathfinder and Traveller is where I see a long term future and I will be happy to write for those audiences. So that’s where I will be going.
Jon Brazer Enterprises 