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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Starman" data-source="post: 2036734" data-attributes="member: 7663">I think that the main priority when designing a game for a liscenced setting needs to be capturing the feel and flavor of that setting. Presumably that is why most people are going to buy the setting. They were fans of the movie/book/whatever and want to capture that in their game. Now, people are going to disagree on what needs to be done to do so. However, it seems that you want these liscenced settings to be useable as generic sourcebooks for your D&D game. By definition that's not going to work. They are liscenced settings, not generic ones. I think that there are enough generic books out there that complaining about a liscenced setting not being compatible with your game is an empty whine. As for the complaint that they shouldn't put the d20 logo on the book, I don't understand that, either. You're educated enough about d20 to know that not every book with the d20 logo on it is not going to be 100% compatible. If you're not sure about a particular book, you can ask here on the boards. The d20 logo is there so the average, uneducated consumer knows that the book uses the basics of the d20 system. It's there for sales. It's easier with that than trying to show compatiblity without using the d20 logo as OGL games must.Starman</blockquote>