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<blockquote data-quote="GMforPowergamers" data-source="post: 6429490" data-attributes="member: 67338"><p>again well talking about why I and others dis like the OGL, I have found myself defending 4e... ironicly enough proveing one of my problems... the tribal and split fan base caused by an edition never going out...</p><p></p><p></p><p>So I will ignore the last two hits on the edition war, and not defend 4e casters or WotC for listen to the #1 complaint of 3.5... I will go back to my OGL discussion.</p><p></p><p>The OGL started mostly good. It gave us a huge list of products. the problem is that there was no real way to control a huge influx of ideas. It lead to a bloat of good and bad that was hard for DMs to look into. Then as wotc started popping out more and more not srded material newer OGL products had to recreate or reimagine whole concepts(again at variable levels of success). The OGL also lead to much less innovations for years as D20 was slapped on everything (I was so glad that CoC and Deadlands learned that lesson and went back) In the end it gave a small company the ability to steal whole cloth the 3e engine and compete with 4e by egging on stupid edition wars(see this thread)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GMforPowergamers, post: 6429490, member: 67338"] again well talking about why I and others dis like the OGL, I have found myself defending 4e... ironicly enough proveing one of my problems... the tribal and split fan base caused by an edition never going out... So I will ignore the last two hits on the edition war, and not defend 4e casters or WotC for listen to the #1 complaint of 3.5... I will go back to my OGL discussion. The OGL started mostly good. It gave us a huge list of products. the problem is that there was no real way to control a huge influx of ideas. It lead to a bloat of good and bad that was hard for DMs to look into. Then as wotc started popping out more and more not srded material newer OGL products had to recreate or reimagine whole concepts(again at variable levels of success). The OGL also lead to much less innovations for years as D20 was slapped on everything (I was so glad that CoC and Deadlands learned that lesson and went back) In the end it gave a small company the ability to steal whole cloth the 3e engine and compete with 4e by egging on stupid edition wars(see this thread) [/QUOTE]
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