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Well, I am walking away at this point. I have paid for over 40 books to get into 3rd edition. I did not do so because I loved 3rd edition or felt it was needed, but because I was excited about the living greyhawk system and how it made gameplay somehow more tangible and permanent. No more fickle spats ruining the campaign, no more shallow story lines, no more over-built characters, or at least a minimal amount of them. 4e in my mind rings the death bell for LG as I know it. It will never be the grass roots home run campaign that it has always been. LG lives because of the efforts that we have put into it. From the long hours of triad volunteers to the writers, to the players and meta leaders. I think that honestly if they are to do away with LG, then the RPGA should give up all rights to it and it should become entirely non-copyrighted. The rules for 3.5 where they are necessary to continue on with LG would be free for us to use, and the 21 open sources and 40+ closed ones should be free for us to distribute in pdf format to new players and we will continue running LG as we always have with one notable difference. We, the players construct a website, the triad of each region is given access to it, and they centralize what we organize. This will allow us to maintain the integrity of LG without violating any copyright laws and without losing what we have all worked so hard to build. It doesn't really look as if WOTC is too interested in keeping it together anyway. Just my 2 cents...