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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Belen" data-source="post: 4324319" data-attributes="member: 1405">Why is this about WOTC?  He is not speaking in his official capacity as an employee of Wizards.Would Wizards have left the OGL community if it was more of a fan-controlled rather than publisher-controlled venue?  No one knows.I think he has a point.  I am a huge Pathfinder/Paizo fan and I did not become one until the magazines were canceled.  I generally distrust Wizards; however, Pathfinder is not an open game.  The finals decisions will not be made by the community. It remains publisher-controlled.I think his point is that the Forge is great for indie games, but no traditional games venue exists.  The community is fragmented and those who do choose to design often attempt to sell rather than post it for the community to comment upon. modify, and maybe incorporate.Some publishers work together and share rules, but that is not the norm.  Hell, you even have publishers lamenting the OGL because it was too open and did not give them enough protection.  A lot of publishers would have preferred a license that allowed them use the SRD/OGL freely and share amongst themselves without fan access to reproduce them.While the fan part of the community does have the right to create a rules database or design community, we have not.  We have continued to allow publishers to keep control of the games.I believe that is his point and it applied to Wizards equally.</blockquote>