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<blockquote data-quote="xechnao" data-source="post: 4641602" data-attributes="member: 58105"><p>Its my impression by Scott's posts here that Wotc employs a legal advisor. Furthermore changes have the potential to alienate people. It is very possible they have decided that a more drastic and "in your face" aproach would have bad results especially regarding the line's momentum.</p><p></p><p>What is certain is that Wotc wanted to distance d&d from OGL. My initial impression was that so they did due to market reasons (and let me say that I agree something needed to be done to avoid another cycle of D20 bloat) but now I am thinking it was also due to strategic brand value reasons. D&D IP rights will have more value if its popularity is not associated with anything else that may not make part of such rights. Furthermore they open the possibility to be able to exploit their own IPs indipendently, such as Forgotten Realms while still maintaining the rest of their brand name values. If D&D was under OGL and they selled Forgotten Realms, the buyer could develop a line under the same system of D&D and thus D&D could lose of its value due to direct competition from FR. OTOH, if the independent line of FR had to come with a different system, D&D could still maintain much of its identity.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="xechnao, post: 4641602, member: 58105"] Its my impression by Scott's posts here that Wotc employs a legal advisor. Furthermore changes have the potential to alienate people. It is very possible they have decided that a more drastic and "in your face" aproach would have bad results especially regarding the line's momentum. What is certain is that Wotc wanted to distance d&d from OGL. My initial impression was that so they did due to market reasons (and let me say that I agree something needed to be done to avoid another cycle of D20 bloat) but now I am thinking it was also due to strategic brand value reasons. D&D IP rights will have more value if its popularity is not associated with anything else that may not make part of such rights. Furthermore they open the possibility to be able to exploit their own IPs indipendently, such as Forgotten Realms while still maintaining the rest of their brand name values. If D&D was under OGL and they selled Forgotten Realms, the buyer could develop a line under the same system of D&D and thus D&D could lose of its value due to direct competition from FR. OTOH, if the independent line of FR had to come with a different system, D&D could still maintain much of its identity. [/QUOTE]
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