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<blockquote data-quote="Sargon" data-source="post: 1585118" data-attributes="member: 19997"><p>I think the OGL is sort of a double edged sword for WOTC</p><p></p><p>It is good that there are a ton of products out there. I believe it is reaching 1500 or more different ones. It is true that I can go online and order basically the exact book that suits my interest. However, I am a regular lurker sometimes poster on d20 and other various rpg boards. So I know what products are coming out. </p><p></p><p>Here is where the problem as far as me as a customer goes. I bought 3.5 Monster Manual, 3.5 DMG. That is it as far as WOTC products in the last year are concerned. My 3.5 Players handbook is from mongoose. The rest of my books are all from 3rd party publishers. I have no plans as far as I see to buy another WOTC product, all my money is going to 3rd party companies. This works out to basically WOTC got 60 of my gaming dollars.</p><p></p><p>I have recently just bought</p><p></p><p>Book of Fiends</p><p>Every Midnight product out</p><p>Every Dawnforge product out</p><p>Advanced Players Guide</p><p></p><p>Supposedly 3.5 came out 2 years early, due to sales of 3.0 core books sales slowing down. How long will it take for 3.5 core books sales to also slow down. </p><p></p><p>To play D&D all you need to have is the 3 core books, 2 if you buy mongooses PHB. You could spend the rest of your money buying various 3rd party products. Recently Complete Divine and Complete Warrior has come out, bet you might find a better 3rd party product that does it better. Racial Books, yep covered as well, probably in more depth.</p><p></p><p>I am waiting for some product like this to come out. I recently got into the midnight campaign setting. Now technically I could take the elements of the SRD, and the open content of the Midnight campaign setting, compile all the classes, races, spells, feats, skills, etc... into one book, format it so it looks better, and sell it as an ogl product. Now you can buy one book and it will have everything you need to run Midnight without the need to buy WOTC core books. Basically this would be a more advanced version of Monte Cooks Arcana Unearthed since it would serve as PHB, DMG and Monster Manual.</p><p></p><p>I basically believe that the OGL is better for players of the game, but not that great for WOTC. Currently there is more D20 licensed rpg products than OGL but that might change.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sargon, post: 1585118, member: 19997"] I think the OGL is sort of a double edged sword for WOTC It is good that there are a ton of products out there. I believe it is reaching 1500 or more different ones. It is true that I can go online and order basically the exact book that suits my interest. However, I am a regular lurker sometimes poster on d20 and other various rpg boards. So I know what products are coming out. Here is where the problem as far as me as a customer goes. I bought 3.5 Monster Manual, 3.5 DMG. That is it as far as WOTC products in the last year are concerned. My 3.5 Players handbook is from mongoose. The rest of my books are all from 3rd party publishers. I have no plans as far as I see to buy another WOTC product, all my money is going to 3rd party companies. This works out to basically WOTC got 60 of my gaming dollars. I have recently just bought Book of Fiends Every Midnight product out Every Dawnforge product out Advanced Players Guide Supposedly 3.5 came out 2 years early, due to sales of 3.0 core books sales slowing down. How long will it take for 3.5 core books sales to also slow down. To play D&D all you need to have is the 3 core books, 2 if you buy mongooses PHB. You could spend the rest of your money buying various 3rd party products. Recently Complete Divine and Complete Warrior has come out, bet you might find a better 3rd party product that does it better. Racial Books, yep covered as well, probably in more depth. I am waiting for some product like this to come out. I recently got into the midnight campaign setting. Now technically I could take the elements of the SRD, and the open content of the Midnight campaign setting, compile all the classes, races, spells, feats, skills, etc... into one book, format it so it looks better, and sell it as an ogl product. Now you can buy one book and it will have everything you need to run Midnight without the need to buy WOTC core books. Basically this would be a more advanced version of Monte Cooks Arcana Unearthed since it would serve as PHB, DMG and Monster Manual. I basically believe that the OGL is better for players of the game, but not that great for WOTC. Currently there is more D20 licensed rpg products than OGL but that might change. [/QUOTE]
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