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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 9644210" data-attributes="member: 8461">He says as much in his interview (i.e. chapter 6) in the Fifty Years of Dungeons & Dragons book:"The most important thing the OGL did wasn't about the OGL; it was about D&D. The release of the SRD under the OGL means that the game is now immortal. Nothing can be done at the corporate level to take D&D away from humanity. It can exist in some legal way, no matter what happens at WotC, Hasbro, or anywhere else in the future. When I looked at the situation that TSR was in when they were acquired, I knew there was a very good chance that D&D would cease to exist because TSR had pledged its intellectual property against loans that they couldn't repay to different lenders. Had the company gone into bankruptcy, those lenders would have gone to bankruptcy court and fought over who controlled TSR's IP. If that happened there's a very good chance we would have ended up with a situation where nobody controlled enough of D&D to do anything with it, and it would have just stopped existing. The OGL, with the System Reference Document, means D&D is immortal. That's the most important thing, and I think that's valuable to everybody."</blockquote>