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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Orcus" data-source="post: 4138246" data-attributes="member: 1254">By the way, if you want evidence of what open gaming can do -- look around.This community is a community of open gaming. This site started as a 3E scoop site and quickly turned into a community for open gaming and third party publishers. Heck, ENWorld does awards for OGL/d20 products. It has a print company that publishes d20/OGL products!Just look what open gaming has done. This community is a voice. It is a presence. Even those here who arent thinking of adopting 4E or are vocally in favor of it (like me), we are here voicing our views on a site that is the result of open gaming. And we have all stuck with D&D and with this site for as long as we have in large part because of open gaming and the companies that come from it, and more importantly all of our ability to use our creativity and support the game we love. Is Wizards losing money from our books or the pdf publishers? Goodness, of course not. But here we are at this huge community, that is essentially a shrine to open gaming. I think this community will do the same for 4E. I remember at first here at ENWorld there were naysayers for 3E (hard to imagine, I know <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> . But look at what happened. We all thrived and grew together because we were all allowed to add our creativity to the game we love. It kept us playing D&D. This whole site is a testament to open gaming. Think about that for a minute. It was a stroke of pure genius to open D&D. It empowered all of us gamers, who are a creative lot, to add to and build on the game we love so much. D&D isnt like, say, Diet Coke--a product that you consume. D&D is a passion for us and a lifestyle. Allowing us to support it is essentially allowing us to be a part of it and that in turn keeps us connected to it.I know that Wizards understands that. Remember, Wizards is the company that saved D&D and that provided open gaming in the first place. I, for one, support them and I believe that they still support open gaming. I have to believe that. So if I was the cause of any discontent last Friday, I am sorry. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> I am passionate because I care about D&D and about open gaming. Where would this community be without it?Clark</blockquote>

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