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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Sigil" data-source="post: 1688642" data-attributes="member: 2013">Not a good comparison.  The Open Game License allows companies - or fans - to create the material that occupies those cheap seats.  If White Wolf opened up its "Storyteller" system under a similar license, do you think there wouldn't be a flood of cheap "Storyteller" PDFs, too?  We both know there would be, and then there would be a large number of "Storyteller" PDFs in the cheap seats.Compare WW to WotC, the "owner" of d20, and you yourself mentioned sales are comparable.  But you'd rather compare one company (WW) to a multitude of companies, and pick the smallest examples to denigrate d20 as a whole.  Let's stick to comparing apples to apples.  Again, if the "Storyteller" system were under an OGL-type license, you'd see Storyteller products right next to d20 ones in the "cheap seats," so saying that there are d20 products in the cheap seats is somewhat disingenuous.  Somebody will be there, the OGL just makes it easier for small companies to do d20 rather than come up with a new system whole cloth (i.e., to use an existing system without fear of getting sued)./rantFinally, I really don't have any opinions one way or the other about Dancey except one... I am incredibly glad he managed to get the OGL to pass muster among the suits, as it puts D&D into a place where it can never be fully killed.  If (worst case scenario) someone with a whole lot of cash were to buy up WW, decide they hated the products, and just shut down the company and litigate anyone who came up with anything compatible with the Storyteller system, that would be the end of WW's stuff.  The OGL ensures that there can always be SOMEONE out there supporting D&D.  That, to me, is worth of admiration.  Not the person, but the act.--The Sigil</blockquote>

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