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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 6293683" data-attributes="member: 7006">Actually... I suspect that D&D itself would have experienced at the very least the same opening salvo that it did, because the marketing push for 3E would have generated the same "coming home" for the large amount of the playerbase.  It was the fully-revamped game and not the OGL specifically that brought people into and back to the game at the very beginning.That being said... I do agree that a good percentage of the playerbase stuck around in the world of d20 specifically because of what the OGL gave them.  For many, it was more varied supplements than they otherwise would have.  For others, it allowed them to play in the d20 pool with all the rest of us without ever needing to purchase or give money to WotC-- because for whatever reasons some players had their hair tied in knots about refusing the support the company.  So they could play D&D without ever giving cash to the company that made D&D.As far as ENWorld?  I have no doubt that the forums on the D&D side at least would have remained just about as active throughout 3E and 4Es runs because of the strength of participation that would continue off from EricNoah's site... assuming (of course) that Morrus was able and willing to keep the forums open during that time without having the influx of cash that came in from the OGL products (which might very well have been the reason the forums have stayed open.)  If ENWorld died out... it would have been because of the money necessary to keep them open, not because of lack of participation.</blockquote>

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