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<blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 6290478" data-attributes="member: 158">I'll remind everyone what Kamikaze Midget already pointed out - the OGL did exactly what its writer intended it to do - he said as much in a FAQ in late 2000, before he left the company&quot;I also know that if the OGL is &quot;dead as a doornail&quot; in WotC's perspeçtive, then DDN is probably dead as a doornail to me other than one shots here and there. I regularly use free or very inexpensive 3rd party OGL tools in prep of our Pathfinder games - as a system it's very appealing to most of my game group, and it would take a lot of convenience and value added to persuade the. To switch from it as a mainstay. In order to make it easy for me to want to sell my group on it, it would not only have to be easy for my group to manipulate and advance PCs with free or cheap 3rd party tools, it would have to have easy and cheap/free tools for me to prep for each game session. If i want the latest monster book, it costs me 10 bucks to get it in PDF, and i know that in 2 or 3 months, a 3PP is going to make a tool to let me grab and prep an adventure using its stats.&nbsp; It doesn't cost me 30 bucks for the PDf of the book, and then another 10 pr 20 bucks a month just to use the stats in computerized prep. It also means I likely wouldn't have the optional support of companies making supplemental stuff like adventures, maps, and props compatible with that very material (like Book of the River kingdoms was for Kingmaker, or Under Frozen Stars was for Jade Regent).OGL has a lot more connotations than just &quot;pirate whole games&quot; - it means being agile enough through the outlet of third parties to respond to customer need.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Henry, post: 6290478, member: 158"] I'll remind everyone what Kamikaze Midget already pointed out - the OGL did exactly what its writer intended it to do - he said as much in a FAQ in late 2000, before he left the company" I also know that if the OGL is "dead as a doornail" in WotC's perspeçtive, then DDN is probably dead as a doornail to me other than one shots here and there. I regularly use free or very inexpensive 3rd party OGL tools in prep of our Pathfinder games - as a system it's very appealing to most of my game group, and it would take a lot of convenience and value added to persuade the. To switch from it as a mainstay. In order to make it easy for me to want to sell my group on it, it would not only have to be easy for my group to manipulate and advance PCs with free or cheap 3rd party tools, it would have to have easy and cheap/free tools for me to prep for each game session. If i want the latest monster book, it costs me 10 bucks to get it in PDF, and i know that in 2 or 3 months, a 3PP is going to make a tool to let me grab and prep an adventure using its stats. It doesn't cost me 30 bucks for the PDf of the book, and then another 10 pr 20 bucks a month just to use the stats in computerized prep. It also means I likely wouldn't have the optional support of companies making supplemental stuff like adventures, maps, and props compatible with that very material (like Book of the River kingdoms was for Kingmaker, or Under Frozen Stars was for Jade Regent). OGL has a lot more connotations than just "pirate whole games" - it means being agile enough through the outlet of third parties to respond to customer need. [/QUOTE]

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