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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 3588453" data-attributes="member: 158">This phenomenon has been well-known for years, and is why Ryan Dancey tried to influence the creation of the OGL in the way he did.Quite a few gamers "leave D&D" for another game system - it's human nature to want something different after playing the same thing for a while. What was observed was that of the gamers leaving D&D, most of them eventually ALWAYS came back to D&D. They stray into GURPS, or RIFTS, or Burning Wheel, or an online MMORPG, or whatnot - but always return full circle to D&D, almsot never to any other game. Therefore, Dancey and the people in charge at WotC at the time wanted to reduce the amount of time that people made that big circle back to D&D, and hence why their wish that the OGL covered not just d20, but other game systems as well. Most familiarity increases not only the "jumping ship" speed but the "return" speed. I know I personally have played a half dozen different RPG's over the years, only to return to D&D every time.It's not usually a case of "being pushed away", as "wanting to try something new."</blockquote>