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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Carnivorous_Bean" data-source="post: 4166180" data-attributes="member: 57974">I've been thinking about this and I guess I'd like to add 2 points to what I've already said, one of which is an alteration of my former stance ........1. I still don't think that the GSL stuff is a fiasco or is going to harm WotC much, or at all.....2. That said, I've changed my mind and would prefer if they did issue a GSL. I'm all for the small guy being able to make a few bucks off of his creativity, and the lack of a GSL will put paid to that in the RPG industry. I was thinking at first that 'house systems' would be the way to go. Then I realized that D20 is like 'branding' brought to the RPG market. Most people probably won't even look at a small-press product, no matter how good it is, unless it's got the 'brand' on it -- D20, OGL, GSL, what have you. To put it another way, they're far more likely to buy a small-press product that DOES have D&D official blessing than one that uses a house system, making what's already a very tenuously-profitable industry (RPG small press) into one that probably has no economic viability at all.So, yes, I am in favor of a GSL/OGL arrangement, not because it's going to help WotC along massively, but because it will provide a semi-viable outlet for some very creative people who might otherwise end up working as Wal-Mart greeters and whose ideas would thus never see print.</blockquote>