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Message: <blockquote data-quote="woodelf" data-source="post: 1489938" data-attributes="member: 10201">Well, part of it could be your perspective. From my perspective, i'm continually appalled by the fact that WotC *doesn't* set the bar for creativity, ingenuity, editing, or artwork in the D20 System market. IMHO, of course. They are, IMHO, firmly leading the middle of the pack. Only place they are consistently leading is where raw economies of scale help them: production values. And while no one has done a book like Unearthed Arcana, perhaps as little as 1/3rd of it is really innovative--the rest has appeared (more or less) in other D20 System products already, or is old hat to RPGs in general and only new to D20 System.Thank you: you said it much more clearly and succinctly than i'm apparently capable of tonight. You are absolutely right: the number of D20 System publishers out there, and the value of an open-content system that tons of publishers are supporting, are getting bigger every day, and the more time goes by, the harder it becomes for WotC to not take advantage of those effects. By the time D&D4E comes out, i don't think they could afford to jettison the OGL-based market, and if they did, i think D20 System could very well trump D&D for marketshare.</blockquote>