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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Korgoth" data-source="post: 4313816" data-attributes="member: 49613">No offense but this is absolute baloney. I mean sure, your FLGS might hate the OGL. But that's not the OGL's fault... it's the FLGS' fault. I mean what, did hit men show up from their distributor and force them to order 50 copies each of "Philately D20" and "The Complete Book of Gastric Disturbance D20"? No. No one forced them to order those unsold books. They ordered those unsold books because of poor business acumen. Sorry but how else to explain it?If you don't keep up with your industry then you're going to make poor business decisions. If you order a ton of stuff that won't sell, that means you don't know your industry, your customers or both. You can't just tell your distributor "I'll take 5 of everything" and expect to do anything besides take a bath on half your merchandise.I always hear about this "OGL glut".  Guess what? In capitalism, having a glut of crummy merchandise is a self-correcting problem. People quickly figure out that Goodman Games produces a quality product and Schlamazel Scriptorium does not. One stays in business and the other doesn't.By the same token, your FLGS, as nice and goodly as they may be, need to learn how to be discriminating in their orders in order to be more profitable... or they too will go down. And that's true whether there's an OGL or not.Your statement amounts to saying that the OGL was bad because it doesn't allow your FLGS to be clueless.</blockquote>

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