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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EarthsShadow" data-source="post: 305659" data-attributes="member: 3531">what really bites?What really bites about all this is that no matter what we say, I highly doubt Wizards of the Coast really cares what we think.They are the big company, they are at the top.  They designed the d20 license, the OGL/OGC and it was a awesome thing that they did, it opened up the roleplaying market to a point that it never was before.  But, as someone stated, not a single one of their books falls under these guidelines.  None of them are Open Gaming Content.  They have this 'SRD' thing, but its not even finished.  There is a reason why they haven't finished it, and its to keep us going in circles like this.  I bet they already know for the next entire year what they will put into this 'SRD' document that everyone else HAS to follow, and we all HAVE to follow the OGC/OGL licenses, and the d20 licenses, but Wizards does not.To see them win so many awards really pissed me off because they didn't deserve it.  As I understood the contest, and its cool to have a contest like this, is that its a d20 gaming community contest, and the voters and gamers like myself should have made the difference, and our votes should be displayed for all of us to see.  Plus, I saw some categories that Wizards had books in that the books didn't deserve being in at all.  The only reason their books were in some of the categories was that simple fact that they are Wizards of the Coast.  Bottom line, and there is no other reason for it.  Right now, I think that all of us who truly care, which is everyone who is posting on here right now about this, deserve to know where Wizards stands on this.  Someone from their company should give us some information and let us know their stances, and answer the real question that I would ask, which is: Why are you not following your own guidelines in producing Open Gaming Content and Open Gaming License works for us to use?  Personally, the only thing WotC deserved to win was best adventure support (Dungeon/Dragon) and maybe Call of Cthulu, which was awesome...the rest of their stuff, as I compared all the books out there and I look at them all, were not as good as the other companies.  I am sorry, but IMO Manuel of the Planes only won becuz its WotC, bottom line.  There was another book in that category that I felt was much better.  *I just can't remember the name, but at the time I felt my convictions about this, and I still do*.So, the real question that we have asked is where does Wizards of the Coast stand on all this?The other question is: why are you not posting the voting results for us to see?  That might get us to also calm down so we can vouch for certain if our votes really meant something or not.</blockquote>

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