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<blockquote data-quote="Nergal Pendragon" data-source="post: 6525107" data-attributes="member: 6777649">The OGL I was referring to and the d20 license are the same thing. WotC had a habit of sometimes calling it the OGL. So, the confusion in terms is in part because WotC themselves never kept the terms entirely straight.And, yes, the release of 3.5 does demonstrate that 3.0 had mechanical flaws, given that mechanical flaws in 3.0 are the exact reason WotC used for releasing 3.5. They outright said it on their website at the time. There's not a lot of room for interpretation, which is why I didn't use any.Something important to note about my failures comment: I wasn't talking about only commercial failures. I was speaking of major blunders in general. With 3E, they had one and then managed to pick themselves up and keep going. With 4E, they stumbled and fell due to the different nature of the failure. With 5E, they're trying to avoid both what happened with 3E and what happened with 4E; they are trying to both get the mechanics right the first time and have a commercial success.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Nergal Pendragon, post: 6525107, member: 6777649"] The OGL I was referring to and the d20 license are the same thing. WotC had a habit of sometimes calling it the OGL. So, the confusion in terms is in part because WotC themselves never kept the terms entirely straight. And, yes, the release of 3.5 does demonstrate that 3.0 had mechanical flaws, given that mechanical flaws in 3.0 are the exact reason WotC used for releasing 3.5. They outright said it on their website at the time. There's not a lot of room for interpretation, which is why I didn't use any. Something important to note about my failures comment: I wasn't talking about only [I]commercial[/I] failures. I was speaking of major blunders in general. With 3E, they had one and then managed to pick themselves up and keep going. With 4E, they stumbled and fell due to the different nature of the failure. With 5E, they're trying to avoid both what happened with 3E and what happened with 4E; they are trying to both get the mechanics right the first time and have a commercial success. [/QUOTE]

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