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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jawsh" data-source="post: 5786624" data-attributes="member: 17061">I will grant that there is some overlap by people who want to look up rules questions online. But really, the Compendium does different things. The Compendium lets you manipulate and sort and filter and create. The Compendium is software; the SRD is data. Also, the Compendium isn't the only thing subscribers are paying for. I don't think WotC expects players would subscribe for just the rules and nothing more. A subscription comes with access to exclusive content from Dungeon and Dragon magazines. I am not aware of Green Ronin's reaction. If they read the OGL, they should not be surprised. Where did you get that number? Surely it doesn't need to be that high. Still, I think it's possible, but I don't have evidence, and I'm not a fortune teller.Edit to add: Also, WotC isn't the only one that counts. Many of the people who would benefit from an OGL are also WotC employees. Even if it isn't a great deal for the bottom line, an OGL will grant a greater degree of success to Monte Cook, Mike Mearls, and others within WotC. People who know the rules well, and then go on to publish 3rd party stuff that supports WotC's game.</blockquote>