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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ourph" data-source="post: 4844887" data-attributes="member: 20239">This is almost 100% wrong. The d20 license did not require the concurrent use of the OGL. They were seperate licenses that both allowed access to the open game content in the SRD. You are correct that the d20 STL also allowed the use of the d20 logo and trademark. However, the license also came with a number of additional restrictions, including that products released under it couldn't include a character creation, stat generation or XP advancement system and that numerous terms and mechanics couldn't be modified from their definitions in the SRD. There were MANY products released with the OGL which could never be used in conjunction with the d20 STL (any complete game like Mongoose's Conan or Green Ronin's Mutants & Masterminds for example), because they didn't adhere to those restrictions.Which, ultimately, is the best argument against the statement that the OGL was never intended to allow for competing games to be produced using the rules in the SRD. If that was never intended, then the d20 STL would have been the only license necessary. The only reason to have a more open license like the OGL is specifically to allow competing game systems to be made.</blockquote>