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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bendris Noulg" data-source="post: 1520932" data-attributes="member: 6398">Y'know, every time I read that, it makes me wonder.  I mean, obviously the OGL alone doesn't promote PHB sales.  Considering things like Arcana Unearthed, M&M, Conan, Slain, Engel, and other OGL-only products provide alternates to PHB-style characters and character advancement, I'd say the "task" of promoting PHB sales (or, alternatively, Modern) falls on the d20STL.  Of course, those PHB-independant products obviously promotes further popularity and use of the d20 System, but only the d20STL requires mention of the PHB or d20 Modern as something necessary for play. I think that's another thing to consider: OGL Products that "pull away" from WotC's baseline products (D&D and Modern) are becoming more numerous and, with each incarnation, more popular.  There are entire games out there that can be played without anyone in the group even owning a PHB (and no, I don't mean using the SRD as a cheap substitute, but games that are completely stand-alone).  Even if I wasn't big on my own home-brew, I could still easily pick up any of these other games and never look in WotC's direction again. So I gotta ask: Those of you that believe OGC extractions might "scare off" WotC or result in a "closed" 4E, what are your opinions of OGL-only products?  As each of these reduces the appearant "need" for the Player's Handbook by producing games that are independant of the Core Rulebooks in-total, making new methods of Character Creation and Level Advancement available (some of them OGC and some of them not), wouldn't these be far more impacting of WotC's view of the OGL?  Do you believe that WotC would be more put-off by an extraction of OGC from Unearthed Arcana than they were by a book that was promoted as an "alternate Player's Handbook" by their own former employee?</blockquote>

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