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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Byrons_Ghost" data-source="post: 3317048" data-attributes="member: 7396">I think the main divide here is the difference between published OGL and the fan-created mods for NWN.I don't have any direct experience with NWN or what rycanada is talking about, but I'm guessing that the Community Expansion Pack arose when the game publisher identified several fan-made mods that were universally accepted within the player community, and decided to make them sort of "officially unofficial".This is pretty different from what's going on in the D20/OGL scene:First off, the mod authors (ie small publishers) are marketing their work instead of posting it to community sites. As someone said above, there's dozens of variations on the same class, spell, etc out there, and since everyone is trying to sell their own, there's no reason to come together.Second, the wide adoption of the mods presumably happened within the fan community, and was recognized by the NWN team. What you're proposing seems to be the opposite. There's no universally recognized Swashbuckler variant, for example. Everyone has their own preferences, and uses different versions. So the consensus on which should be used would either come from WotC, or the small publishers, and neither is going to happen.Without the free donations, and the independant evaluations, I don't see this happening. Getting buy-in from either side would be next to impossible.About the only thing I can see working is a group of small publishers, or would-be publishers, banding together to develop their own "SRD 2", sort of like a free online PHB 2. They make all their material themselves, release it freely, and agree that within their group, these will be the standards they adhere to. The actual profit would come from supplemental stuff such as adventures, campaign settings, etc, which use the material.Essentially, this would be replicating what WotC did with the SRD, but on a much smaller scale. As to who would be in that group, I've no idea. An alliance like IPR would probably be best suited to do so, but I don't think they're doing much D20 these days.</blockquote>

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