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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ddougan" data-source="post: 1585694" data-attributes="member: 11480">I completely disagree with Gary's views on the OGL.I personally think its been a breath of fresh air to the gaming industry. It may not have been all things to everyone, but it has certainly rediscovered my love for DnD. I've also started 2 groups of completely new players (playing one night a week with each group). Before DnD3e, I found AD&D2e to be a bit of a mess. I thought they failed to clean up the 2nd edition rules over the 1st. And I thought the first was itself just a collection of hacks over DnD. (No flames if you disagree - these are just my opinions). Suddenly 3e brough a proper task system to the game. The mechanics where clean - D20 is a damn well-design and rather elegant game system. And Gary's Dangerous Journeys was rather ugly in my eyes too (I have nothing against him - I am glad he created the hobby, but I don't particularly think his biggest skill is game design!).Before DnD3e, my favourite system was GDW's HouseSystem - playing Traveller and Twilight 2000. Sadly, both of these games are now pretty much dead (the reprints are just that - I don't think the system is being taken anywhere - though I am glad to purchase new copies of the books, and I am hopeful that the TNE sourcebook will bring the Traveller historyline back on track - for me, going back to pre-1000 just isn't advancing Traveller). GDW were trying to implement a common system (just as WW was) long before WOTC - what WOTC did that succeeded those efforts was the OGL.WOTC have benefitted greatly from my purchases. I've bought 3 copies of 3e PHB, DMG, MM, plus virtually all the WOTC blue and brown hardback books (save Savage Species which really doesn't interest me). I've also picked up the complete core rules for 3.5. And I've got most of the new FR product in print. That's a testimony to the quality of their products.OGL publishers have benefitted greatly from my purchases too. I've got every single item in the Spycraft, B5, Warcraft, Midnight and Everquest ranges. Plus a host of source books that WOTC simply hasn't released themselves, but which thanks to OGL can fit right into my campaign without any effort to integrate - aerial guides, naval guides, books on mass combat etc.I've made a big investment in D20 products, and being able to take a dozen new players and play fantasy, modern and sci-fi games without requiring them to learn a new ruleset has justified that investment. I'm not saying the rules are perfect for all these genres - which is why I have house rules. But again, the elegant nature of the D20 system means I can cleanly add house rules and variants without having my players learn a new ruleset for each genre. Something which I also believe Gary isn't too fond of <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=":)" />As someone else said, he was asked his opinion and gave it ... I just don't think it should be treated as gospel any more than my own or someone elses on the boards...</blockquote>

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