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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 4408758" data-attributes="member: 2209">Here's the source of my anger.I play D&D and not other games. I used to adapt stuff from other games to my D&D game before there was the OGL. 3e came around and the OGL with it. Now I bought a number of WotC D&D and d20 books (I own 30) but not everything from WotC. I bought hundreds of OGL books, they filled niches WotC did not provide, had different styles and tastes and price points and formats that appealed to me etc. Instead of neat books from other companies that I had to work at to get compatible to my D&D games there was a bonanza of neat third-party books with directly compatible mechanics. Also with the free OGL srd I could reference game rules easily on my computer which was a huge boon to my games. I got a lot out of the OGL for my D&D games.WotC decided to move away from having 4e open. The 4e SRD is a reference for terms to cite in publications, not an actual rules reference guide useable by gamers. PDFs of the rules cost $75 instead. The GSL restrictions are reducing the number of people willing to make 4e stuff and so options for 4e D&D mechanically compatible stuff are reduced.4e is in the same category as White Wolf's Exalted for me right now. Looks like a neat cool game with a lot of great features, but too expensive and without enough features for me to consider switching from 3.5/OGL D&D.Wizards went from taking D&D from my main game to my only game with 3e then made 4e D&D not worth buying right now because they decided to downgrade the features they previously offered.I like D&D, it annoys me that these WotC decisions are driving me away from picking up the new edition.I am annoyed at White Wolf that they priced the exalted pdfs beyond what I would be willing to buy them for, but I don't care as much as I do about WotC's actions because I play D&D.</blockquote>

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