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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sigurd" data-source="post: 1948160" data-attributes="member: 19412">I think they have benefitted hugelyThe OGL has been a powerful lever to move secondary publications towards Dungeons and Dragons. I go into the Chapters near me and I have to special order anything that is not D20 or WOTC. How many gamers buy a book they can't flip through first?My own personal opinion is that non WOTC publications are far more interesting. All that talent and creativity has been sucked into supporting WOTC when it otherwise might have gone into competing game systems.  The dominance seems to me self perpetuating because it's simply easier to write for the established expectations and skills of game buyers.I think the real task for WOTC is to show genuine leadership. People have to feel that a new set of rules is really better before they will embrace a new generation of publications. The core books are slightly insolated from this because people buy the books to consider the rules. I know many gamers who still reject 3.5. I wonder how many publishers were caught flat footed by the 3.5 publication? If WOTC looses its way it won't be because of the OGL it will be because they failed to produce. They have too big a hold on economies of scale and distribution channels for me to feel very sorry for them if they blow it.I hope there's enough business for everyone but I have a special place for the smaller publishers. Makes me want to remind people that they advertise for WOTC not the other way around.S</blockquote>

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