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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 5266546" data-attributes="member: 8461">You had me up until this. "Reason" at no time factored into WotC's decision-making process for the role of Open Gaming and Fourth Edition that I recall. Now, I don't claim to have any special insight into their thinking here; rather, I believe it was obvious to anyone who was paying attention. I attended the seminar that WotC held at Gen Con 2007 to discuss the future of 4E and Open Gaming...only to find that WotC had no plan or outline, but was instead asking for ideas.I've heard some people say that was them being proactively involved with the third-party community. Maybe so, but it seemed to me that they had no idea what they were going to do, and were opening the floor to suggestions because they didn't have any decision-making process going on in this area at the time.This proved to be case as the months passed. If I recall correctly, they announced that 4E would be OGL, but with a new d20 License. Then that there'd be a $5,000 buy-in to use said license. Then that the $5,000 would only be for early-adoption, and after six months or so everyone could use it. Then a long silence where even the companies who wanted to pay couldn't. Then the release of the GSL (and the long struggles of Clark Peterson, Scott Rouse, and Linae Foster). Then the GSL revisions. And I'm sure I'm forgetting some of the other missteps that were made between then and now.Between how many times they changed their stance on this, and how long it went between each revision, there's really no way to look at the process that led to the GSL as some sort of informed, rational decision on WotC's part.</blockquote>

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