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<blockquote data-quote="Orcus" data-source="post: 4107982" data-attributes="member: 1254">Here is how:Make &quot;d20 = D&amp;D&quot; and really hammer that home. They didnt do that. That made it less than important for us publishers. I hate to admit it, but we publishers didnt necessarily want an open game license. I love it, dont get me wrong. But what I really want is a license taht lets me make D&amp;D compatible products and lets me say &quot;compatible with D&amp;D.&quot; WotC didnt want to do that, so they created this intermediary symbol, the d20 logo. So, frankly, to the extent the GSL allows me to say &quot;D&amp;D&quot; or use some version of the D&amp;D logo, I actually like it BETTER than the OGL. And if they are going to update the SRD to allow me to access future books, I like it BETTER than the OGL. But the good thing about the OGL is that it didnt limit products. It let you use the content and do what you want with it. To the extent the GSL doesnt do that, I will definately like the OGL BETTER. But in the end, that is it. If &quot;d20 = D&amp;D&quot; had been better established and advertised it would have worked better. Candidly, they should have simply let us say &quot;Compatible with Dungeons and Dragons&quot; and tied the STL to that phrase. We would have taken just about any restriction to have been able to say that. But the d20 logo lost its value and meaning for many reasons: it wasnt just tied to D&amp;D, it was tied to a system. &quot;d20&quot; also came to mean the products by third party publishers and that led to the decrease in value with the glut of products, some of which were not very good.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Orcus, post: 4107982, member: 1254"] Here is how: Make "d20 = D&D" and really hammer that home. They didnt do that. That made it less than important for us publishers. I hate to admit it, but we publishers didnt necessarily want an open game license. I love it, dont get me wrong. But what I really want is a license taht lets me make D&D compatible products and lets me say "compatible with D&D." WotC didnt want to do that, so they created this intermediary symbol, the d20 logo. So, frankly, to the extent the GSL allows me to say "D&D" or use some version of the D&D logo, I actually like it BETTER than the OGL. And if they are going to update the SRD to allow me to access future books, I like it BETTER than the OGL. But the good thing about the OGL is that it didnt limit products. It let you use the content and do what you want with it. To the extent the GSL doesnt do that, I will definately like the OGL BETTER. But in the end, that is it. If "d20 = D&D" had been better established and advertised it would have worked better. Candidly, they should have simply let us say "Compatible with Dungeons and Dragons" and tied the STL to that phrase. We would have taken just about any restriction to have been able to say that. But the d20 logo lost its value and meaning for many reasons: it wasnt just tied to D&D, it was tied to a system. "d20" also came to mean the products by third party publishers and that led to the decrease in value with the glut of products, some of which were not very good. [/QUOTE]

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