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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RyanD" data-source="post: 2403503" data-attributes="member: 3312">They don't have to gain sufficient noteriety in the player community.  They have to gain sufficient notoriety in the design community.  Even better:  They have to gain sufficient notoriety at Wizards of the Coast.That may be easier than you think.  A lot of people at WotC play a lot of RPGs, and they actively look at lots of RPG products.  I suspect that they have dissected in some detail most of the top-selling D20 products, and probably a lot of the top selling PDF only products.I also think there's a difference between "a whole bunch of feats" and a tightly focused design effort to improve a specific area of the game.  (Note in my example, I suggested source material for unqiue cultural reference).  Innovating in areas that D&D is weak in (mass combat, non-combat challenge resoution, environments other than forests and caves, etc.) allows a DM/player group who needs that resource to add it without major disruptions to the rest of the game, and it is the kind of thing likely to pique WotC's interest.I also suspect that we're nearing a time when one or more groups push to make a publisher independent "reference platform" for D20 that can be produced as a PDF document and revised more often than the core D&D rulebooks are.  A quarterly "build" akin to the distribution of Linux would do nicely.  Once that process starts, and a significant design community aggregates around it, that "reference platform" becomes a one-stop-shop for WotC as they consider things to add to the core of D&D.  Such a reference platform would be designed to be a playable D20 RPG that could be used (per the OGL) by any publisher who expressed an interest, which means that such an effort may have a commercial application to provide some kind of funding to support a higher-than-volunteer-only level of development.That's the kind of thing the OGL enables that we didn't have before.</blockquote>

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