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I can understand that frustration. I didn't say nobody shouldn't be disappointed about the situation. Gail herself understands this. Then again, regarding the CZ project--nobody expected Gary to get a health issue, Kuntz to leave, Jeff to be recruited and brought up to speed, and various...

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And I strongly recommend people check this out, because I've always felt that one of the truer wishes of EGG was for people to create their own new games, not just copy the existing ones. To much of the OSR creativity right now is just a lot of copying of the same AD&D root. That's not to...

True, but I have a feeling you'd be disappointed. My best guess right now is that none of them see the game business as something to be involved in. While all six children were involved in gaming and the first five all did something at TSR, I don't see any of them being involved in the...

Exactly. One of the reasons I get a little angry is I see people more angry at about what will happen to the material then about the man's family, and this seems to be more from the "old school" die hard fans than the general fans. (And that's not a complaint about all, just some select...

Plus, I thought the following applied as to why the fiends didn't take over. 1) While there were supposedly, countless demons, they were so factionalized and relatively weak, fighting with each other and not really unified under a banner. 2) Numbers don't equal success. At least in 1e, a...

I think the only reason I disliked the BW was it felt so unlike what I expected. Planescape is good in its own right, however, instead of an isolated continuity it forced itself on the other campaign worlds--Greyhawk, FR, even Krynn. Sometimes you don't want to have it like that. I like my...

So, basically, you are saying that because they have a valuable property, they should give it up and focus on the merchandising rights?! I hate to tell you this, but (1) Merchandising rights only work as long as the core product is solid and (2) a lot of players disliked the emphasis of the...

It's not "biting the hand that feeds you", it's more like owning a store and then deciding to give away all your products. It might me a nice thing to do, but it's likely going to make you broke. Even many OGL proponents wouldn't recommend using CC or Public Domain. Economically, WoTC is in a...

That would be incredibly stupid. The market leader releasing things into the public domain makes no economic sense whatsoever. Even market leaders with a progressive view don't do it until it has little value (for instance, id Sofware releases the engine as Open Source only after they've got a...

Well, my "detractions" aren't really detractions, per se, just criticisms. I never said the OGL wasn't good for some companies. Clearly, for some companies, it did good, like James Jacobs says. For Paizo, the OGL is really what kept them in business. But the key thing is, I noticed that the...

I doubt Gary will ever really fade from Geek consciousness, at least with the hard core. He's still the most famous RPG game designer out there. So I doubt she has to strike "now", otherwise it would just be saying the Old School is a fad. The big problem though for the old school is--Gary...

I don't think there should be two lines of D&D separating the "simple" from the "complex". A lot of business analysis has shown that if you have two very similar products with slight differences and the same name, it causes a lot of consumer confusion. This has occurred in many industries...

She may look into something in the future, but at this time she has no immediate plans to publish any of Gary's works, although that could change depending on how things go. The gaming market is really bad right now and I think she wants to wait to see if it picks up before deciding on...

Not to mention the higher production values on some books. I heard that Planescape for instance had higher production values and that some works sold at a loss. TSR of the 90s seemed to suffer from the same problems that Marvel did in the 90s, I think they virtually flooded the market with too...

No, I am perfectly aware of this. However, from what I've seen, many of these games were eclipsed in sales by the d20 glut. I think in many cases sales of the truly different games became eclipsed by the people going after the 3e market. For instance, lets take GURPS. I specifically...

Why shut down an interesting thread, just because it goes off on a tangent? There's no real edition war or anything like that going on. Maybe we can fork the OGL discussion...

Was it truly a commercial failure though? It may not have had as much success as the 1st Edition did, but it was still at the top of the marketplace. The fact that they couldn't manage their debt doesn't seem to have been a failure based on selling product, but poor planning of various factors...

You may have misread what I said. RQ and Traveller both have OGL licenses created. I wasn't saying they were the biggest "name" examples of those that are using the OGL Thanks for clearing that up. I will say that some of my criticism of the OGL has been echoed by you. I have no problem...

I don't know about Spycraft, but according to Wikipedia, this is the origin of M&M. This tells me that there was already a game (or at least roots of it) in place that did not derive from the SRD, and what they did is retro-fit it to work with the OGL. (At the most charitable, it was just a...