Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="an_idol_mind" data-source="post: 5755969" data-attributes="member: 43749">Based on the statements made by the D&D Brand Manager at the time and the general feeling among third parties, I think WotC wanted something closer to the OGL but that it was blocked by someone higher up that either didn't get it or didn't like it.Granted, it's all speculation, but I would think that if WotC itself and not its parent company were deadset against the OGL, there would have been more from their community representatives talking about how open gaming isn't necessarily the best thing ever, couching the eventual change, rather than promises up and down as well as handshake agreements with many other designers that something was coming.I had always been under the assumption that the original GSL was closer to the OGL than not, but that somebody upstairs saw it as a threat to D&D's intellectual property and wouldn't be persuaded otherwise. Admittedly, I could very, very well be wrong, but it's what makes the most sense here based on what I actually saw coming from WotC versus what they actually did.</blockquote>