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<blockquote data-quote="Dire Bare" data-source="post: 9481385" data-attributes="member: 18182">To be fair to WotC, this was part of the point of the OGL from the beginning. To have other publishers put out products that WotC could not or would not do, in order to grow support for the core game. It seems to be working, despite the folks within Hasbro's corporate hierarchy that are not fans of &quot;open gaming&quot;.The dynamics of a smaller publisher can lead them to produce products that, yes, WotC would not. Well . . . yeah. And?I'm pretty happy with the way things are going now. WotC puts out great D&amp;D content and so do many other publishers, more so than at any time before . . . even than during the &quot;d20 glut&quot; of the early 2000s. Would I be happier if WotC took more risks on the types of products they put out? Eh, sure, I guess. But I've been pretty happy with the products they have published, and I've been pretty happy with some of the more ambitious projects from smaller publishers.And, I wouldn't even agree that WotC doesn't take a few risks with some of their products. I think Wild Beyond the Witchlight and Journeys through the Radiant Citadel are good examples of WotC pushing boundaries.Heh, WotC certainly wouldn't put out a 600+ page city source book, but . . . I'm not sure anyone other than Monte Cook could pull that one off. I'm glad he did, that one is a classic for both 3E and 5E.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dire Bare, post: 9481385, member: 18182"] To be fair to WotC, this was part of the point of the OGL from the beginning. To have other publishers put out products that WotC could not or would not do, in order to grow support for the core game. It seems to be working, despite the folks within Hasbro's corporate hierarchy that are not fans of "open gaming". The dynamics of a smaller publisher can lead them to produce products that, yes, WotC would not. Well . . . yeah. And? I'm pretty happy with the way things are going now. WotC puts out great D&D content and so do many other publishers, more so than at any time before . . . even than during the "d20 glut" of the early 2000s. Would I be happier if WotC took more risks on the types of products they put out? Eh, sure, I guess. But I've been pretty happy with the products they have published, and I've been pretty happy with some of the more ambitious projects from smaller publishers. And, I wouldn't even agree that WotC doesn't take a few risks with some of their products. I think [I]Wild Beyond the Witchlight[/I] and [I]Journeys through the Radiant Citadel[/I] are good examples of WotC pushing boundaries. Heh, WotC certainly wouldn't put out a 600+ page city source book, but . . . I'm not sure anyone other than Monte Cook could pull that one off. I'm glad he did, that one is a classic for both 3E and 5E. [/QUOTE]

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