Maggan
Writer for CY_BORG, Forbidden Lands and Dragonbane
wayne62682 said:You couldn't use mechanics from other books, so they pretty much forced publishers to "fork" D&D and make their own systems so they could increase the number of things they could make use of.
Interesting. If WotC had been a custodian of the 3.5 OGC, expanding on the SRD with proven and tested variants and improvements, then the publishers might have felt more motivated to share and improve the core.
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