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<blockquote data-quote="Sir Whiskers" data-source="post: 1569333" data-attributes="member: 6941">While this seems good in theory, in practice there is almost no sharing between publishers. Partly this is due to &quot;crippled OGL's&quot; and other such mechanisms that some publishers employ to make re-using their material as difficult as possible. Partly this is due to no central repository to facilitate re-use of these &quot;good ideas&quot;. Mostly I suspect that writers and designers tend to steal ideas, but not actual implementations, meaning we still get slightly different rules: different wound point, spell point, item creation, etc. systems. Another example: how many different variant rangers did we see pre-3.5? While the idea of changing the ranger class was widespread, no one variant acquired universal appeal.From the buyer's perspective, this often leads to the situation mentioned earlier in this thread, where WOTC has the only material viewed as &quot;official&quot;. Anything else (even from major publishers such as Malhavoc) is used by a very small fraction of the d20 community.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sir Whiskers, post: 1569333, member: 6941"] While this seems good in theory, in practice there is almost no sharing between publishers. Partly this is due to "crippled OGL's" and other such mechanisms that some publishers employ to make re-using their material as difficult as possible. Partly this is due to no central repository to facilitate re-use of these "good ideas". Mostly I suspect that writers and designers tend to steal ideas, but not actual implementations, meaning we still get slightly different rules: different wound point, spell point, item creation, etc. systems. Another example: how many different variant rangers did we see pre-3.5? While the idea of changing the ranger class was widespread, no one variant acquired universal appeal. From the buyer's perspective, this often leads to the situation mentioned earlier in this thread, where WOTC has the only material viewed as "official". Anything else (even from major publishers such as Malhavoc) is used by a very small fraction of the d20 community. [/QUOTE]

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