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<blockquote data-quote="Leif" data-source="post: 4833895" data-attributes="member: 48762">I was sure that I had seen them given publshing credit for (at least one edition of) M&amp;M.I totally agree about Paizo.&nbsp; And the abandonment of 3.5 by WotC just reinforces that fact.But I truly don't understand what the difference is between d20 and OGL.&nbsp; I'll look at the text again tonight, but I was honestly under the impression that they were two names for the same thing. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":eek:" title="Eek!&nbsp; &nbsp; :eek:"&nbsp; data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":eek:" />&nbsp; Ok, wait.&nbsp; My wheels are spinning once again:&nbsp; d20 predates&nbsp; OGL, doesn't it? d20 was the first incarnation, OGL the second, and now GSL is the thrid.&nbsp; Am I even close to right?I understand that a company may license trade dress for their products to indicate, or imply, compatibility, but the very fact that this is even done (because it's almost surely going to have some slight variances in the trade dress that are going to seem blatant to customers of the original line) seems to fairly scream 3PP to me.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Leif, post: 4833895, member: 48762"] I was sure that I had seen them given publshing credit for (at least one edition of) M&M. I totally agree about Paizo. And the abandonment of 3.5 by WotC just reinforces that fact. But I truly don't understand what the difference is between d20 and OGL. I'll look at the text again tonight, but I was honestly under the impression that they were two names for the same thing. :eek: Ok, wait. My wheels are spinning once again: d20 predates OGL, doesn't it? d20 was the first incarnation, OGL the second, and now GSL is the thrid. Am I even close to right? I understand that a company may license trade dress for their products to indicate, or imply, compatibility, but the very fact that this is even done (because it's almost surely going to have some slight variances in the trade dress that are going to seem blatant to customers of the original line) seems to fairly [u]scream[/u] 3PP to me. [/QUOTE]

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