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<blockquote data-quote="Count_Zero" data-source="post: 9428128" data-attributes="member: 40164">The OGL itself was fine - and if TSR hadn't been so litigious it probably would still have come about. Two of the reasons for it to exist were making sure D&amp;D could never die, and helping to encourage third party publishers to make the kind of content that didn't necessarily make a lot of money, like adventures, additional monster books, NPC books, and so on.The problem is the third was pure damage control - show an olive branch that we won't sue you for writing for our game the way the old management did. If it wasn't for things like the 92 (not 84) Mayfair Games lawsuit, I think while people would have still been antsy about the change to the GSL from the OGL, there wouldn't have been the same level of revolt. Everyone would have still been upset at the attempt to pull the OGL, and we likely would have still gotten the ORC, but you might not have had Paizo basically going &quot;They're going to come for us like they came for GDW, start stripping the remaining D&amp;D stuff out of Pathfinder 2e!&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Count_Zero, post: 9428128, member: 40164"] The OGL itself was fine - and if TSR hadn't been so litigious it probably would still have come about. Two of the reasons for it to exist were making sure D&D could never die, and helping to encourage third party publishers to make the kind of content that didn't necessarily make a lot of money, like adventures, additional monster books, NPC books, and so on. The problem is the third was pure damage control - show an olive branch that we won't sue you for writing for our game the way the old management did. If it wasn't for things like the 92 (not 84) Mayfair Games lawsuit, I think while people would have still been antsy about the change to the GSL from the OGL, there wouldn't have been the same level of revolt. Everyone would have still been upset at the attempt to pull the OGL, and we likely would have still gotten the ORC, but you might not have had Paizo basically going "They're going to come for us like they came for GDW, start stripping the remaining D&D stuff out of Pathfinder 2e!" [/QUOTE]

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