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Is it time to revive the D20 License? (Or equivalent)
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<blockquote data-quote="MatthewJHanson" data-source="post: 8907104" data-attributes="member: 13968"><p>There's been a lot of talk recently about the OGL, but very little about 2000's other big license, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D20_System" target="_blank">D20 License</a>.</p><p></p><p>For those of who weren't around back then, the quick version was that the d20 License was something that publishers could us along with the OGL during 3rd editions run, but the d20 License had more strings attached, such as not allowing you to include character creation rules, and they later added some contents standards in response to the infamous Book of Erotic Fantasy (I'm not making that up).</p><p></p><p>In exchange, the publisher got to put a logo on the front of the book declaring that they were compatible with D&D.</p><p></p><p>I wonder if this approach might be the way to solve our current crisis. WotC can leave the OGL as is, but also offers a "D&D Compatible" log, sort of like the one their showing with the OGL 1.2, and to display that you need to agree to certain standards.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MatthewJHanson, post: 8907104, member: 13968"] There's been a lot of talk recently about the OGL, but very little about 2000's other big license, the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D20_System']D20 License[/URL]. For those of who weren't around back then, the quick version was that the d20 License was something that publishers could us along with the OGL during 3rd editions run, but the d20 License had more strings attached, such as not allowing you to include character creation rules, and they later added some contents standards in response to the infamous Book of Erotic Fantasy (I'm not making that up). In exchange, the publisher got to put a logo on the front of the book declaring that they were compatible with D&D. I wonder if this approach might be the way to solve our current crisis. WotC can leave the OGL as is, but also offers a "D&D Compatible" log, sort of like the one their showing with the OGL 1.2, and to display that you need to agree to certain standards. [/QUOTE]
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