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<blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 4103479" data-attributes="member: 158">This was Ryan Dancey's original supposition, one of the reasons why he pushed for the OGL. If the theory is &quot;all roads lead to Rome&quot;, then the idea of making Interstates to replace meandering country roads is a sound one. I know from my personal experience, d20 games of all stripes (from Mutants and Masterminds, to Grim Tales, to Spycraft, to d20 Modern) kept us from playing other game systems out there, like Shadowrun, Unknown Armies, etc. because we were too busy playing games similar enough to not bother with a big learning curve. When were weren't playing D&amp;D, we were playing another d20 game; the non d20 games we DID play had such dirt-simple mechanics that we didn't spend much time learning, like Feng Shui, for instance.IMO, Network Externalities was a lot more effective under the OGL than people are willing to give it credit for.In other news, I, too, will be glad to see what the final license of the GSL contains.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Henry, post: 4103479, member: 158"] This was Ryan Dancey's original supposition, one of the reasons why he pushed for the OGL. If the theory is "all roads lead to Rome", then the idea of making Interstates to replace meandering country roads is a sound one. I know from my personal experience, d20 games of all stripes (from Mutants and Masterminds, to Grim Tales, to Spycraft, to d20 Modern) kept us from playing other game systems out there, like Shadowrun, Unknown Armies, etc. because we were too busy playing games similar enough to not bother with a big learning curve. When were weren't playing D&D, we were playing another d20 game; the non d20 games we DID play had such dirt-simple mechanics that we didn't spend much time learning, like Feng Shui, for instance. IMO, Network Externalities was a lot more effective under the OGL than people are willing to give it credit for. In other news, I, too, will be glad to see what the final license of the GSL contains. [/QUOTE]

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