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<blockquote data-quote="Orcus" data-source="post: 4107647" data-attributes="member: 1254">I agree. Initially, the idea was that everyone would want the d20 license because that let people use the d20 logo, which was on the D&amp;D books. What publishers really wanted to do was say &quot;compatible with D&amp;D&quot; but the license didnt allow that. The d20 logo was the next best thing. And as a result, things like standards and stuff were tied to the d20 STL because it was presumed that was the thing we couldnt live without. But that isnt how it played out. In the end, that d20 logo proved to be pretty irrelevant, since WotC watered it down. It didnt just mean D&amp;D anymore. So as the value of the d20 logo declined, so to did the need to use the d20 STL. All of a sudden, we could do D&amp;D products without the d20STL and just with the OGL. Once that happened, there were no longer any restrictions. Now, that happened in part because people didnt want to use the d20STL because of the restrictions it included. But had the d20 logo had more value we would have had no choice but to accept them since we needed the d20 logo. Clark</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Orcus, post: 4107647, member: 1254"] I agree. Initially, the idea was that everyone would want the d20 license because that let people use the d20 logo, which was on the D&D books. What publishers really wanted to do was say "compatible with D&D" but the license didnt allow that. The d20 logo was the next best thing. And as a result, things like standards and stuff were tied to the d20 STL because it was presumed that was the thing we couldnt live without. But that isnt how it played out. In the end, that d20 logo proved to be pretty irrelevant, since WotC watered it down. It didnt just mean D&D anymore. So as the value of the d20 logo declined, so to did the need to use the d20 STL. All of a sudden, we could do D&D products without the d20STL and just with the OGL. Once that happened, there were no longer any restrictions. Now, that happened in part because people didnt want to use the d20STL because of the restrictions it included. But had the d20 logo had more value we would have had no choice but to accept them since we needed the d20 logo. Clark [/QUOTE]

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