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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Radiating Gnome" data-source="post: 5769839" data-attributes="member: 150">I think this is an interesting idea.  And not beyond the realms of possibility.  The OGL was a response to the rise of Open Source software in the marketplace -- something that was up and coming at the time 3rd edition was developed and released.  So, the use in an RPG context was a response to that. Today, we see the meteoric growth of app stores -- apple had one, then there's the android marketplace, now google chrome has one, for games there's steam, etc etc etc.  Why not imagine a "Mod-store" on the model of an apple-style app-store.  User-created adventure and even campaign content, 30% of all profits go to WOTC, etc.  It's totally possible, but would have these challenges to overcome:1. Programming time to develop the app store, especially new infrastructure to handle the micro-transactions.  2. Filtering content down to a manageable lump.  (Think just about the monster builder -- if the database included every user-created monster users have created, there would be a massive ugly mess of redundant and potentially unbalanced creations out there that would threaten to quickly drown the good stuff. You'd need some sort of rating system, maybe, at the very least.)3. Programming resources.  Did I mention that?  This has been a challenge for WOTC in the past. It's a lot more possible than it was for a small team to do this sort of work now than it used to be (especially if they take advantage of open source tools -- oh, there's a touch of irony). But it's still a tall order. -rg</blockquote>

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