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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ourph" data-source="post: 1598732" data-attributes="member: 20239">Yes, I'm saying that IMO the D20/OGL products I've perused (quite a few, over 100 in the last ~2 years I would say) have not been excellent quality, though some of them have been good.  None of them have inspired me to spend my gaming dollar.  However, I'll admit I'm extremely picky.  For the most part I see the market producing two types of "good but not great" material.  The first, imaginative, well written stuff that's packaged with a lot of fluff to increase page count and drive up the price to the point that the item is profitable to produce.  The second, imaginative, well written stuff that's poorly packaged to keep costs down so that the item is profitable to produce.  I've yet to see a well written, creatively inspired product with quality artwork and binding whose content is over 20% "good stuff".  Of course, these two types are vastly outnumbered by the oceans of drek being produced.It's possible that at some point the larger and more successful indie companies will be able to afford to put out the highest quality stuff, but right now doing so just isn't feasible.  It would drastically cut profits and isn't really necessary (when your competition is average to good, you only have to be consistently good to stay ahead of the pack, excellence is a waste of resources).I don't know if my comments rise to the level of logic.  Just opinion.   <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'm sure the OGL/D20 arrangement has benefited some gamers, maybe even MOST gamers.  But it's not really benefited me. :\</blockquote>

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