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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 5486280" data-attributes="member: 59082">The worst part about the GSL wasn't the GSL itself, but how late it came out coupled with the $5,000 early entry fee. If I remember correctly, it wasn't until after the release of 4E and a ton of 3PP went under because they couldn't ante up the $5k and/or wait the period of time (six months) when it became free. But I could be mis-remembering.But yeah, I hear you about the difference between viewing WotC as a commercial entity and looking at this as a player. Forgetting the former, it is all too easy to take a "What have you done for me lately" attitude. But it is also nice to have more options and the D&D world seems a lot more barren under the GSL.That said, Sturgeon's Law applied quite forcefully to d20 products as a ton of what came out form 3PP form 2000 to 2008 was pretty crappy. For every one great product like Book of the Righteous and Wilderlands of High Fantasy there were a hundred or more mediocre (or worse) products that just clogged the shelves. I remember feeling that shopping the d20 shelves at game stores was like looking for a needle in a haystack. Actually, it still is as a lot of stores still have the same books they had on their shelves in 2002.</blockquote>