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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Turjan" data-source="post: 4387489" data-attributes="member: 3477">Honestly, I don't think that WoTC care one way or the other. The wording of the GSL is such as to discourage any company from steering to near to the production plans of core D&D itself and being able to kill any product off that does so. The only GSL product I know of so far illustrates this: the <a href="http://www.mongoosepublishing.com/home/detail.php?qsID=1617" target="_blank">announced Mongoose book</a> is pretty far removed from stuff you would expect to come from WotC, while at the same time working with the PHB.Even if Charles Ryan repeated the story about the d20 glut that was bad for D&D and that the d20 companies didn't produce the right product to support D&D, I don't think this is true in the way he says this. Let's just look at the argument that the 3rd party companies didn't produce any adventures, as they were supposed to do. It's very easy to see that this argument doesn't hold any water. Even if we exclude the Dungeon magazine as official D&D product, we had at least two full lines of D&D aventures from Necromancer and Goodman Games at that time. The problem was not that nobody produced adventures, but that most WotC customers did not buy anything that didn't come from WotC at that point in the development.Which means that the glut argument works somewhat indirectly. When WotC went back to publishing adventures themselves, the d20 market for direct D&D supplements had already mostly killed itself. At this point, only well-informed people bought quality 3rd party D&D supplements, and you cannot live on the dedicated internet crowd alone.I can understand that some people at WotC think nowadays that any open gaming segment doesn't really contribute much to their bottom line, one way or the other. But, in the end, the GSL seems to indicate that WotC want to keep the major supplement train for themselves and leave only exotic topics to others.</blockquote>

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