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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nellisir" data-source="post: 2763712" data-attributes="member: 70">First of all, I agree with everything Yair said.  I want an OGC repository (wiki or not) toa- have easy, electronic access to OGC I already own, thus reducing the amount of time I have to spend scanning or cutting & pasting from a pdf (or a text copy of said pdf).  Note that this is something I already do -- an OGC repository would make it easier.  The Hypertext d20 SRD is a godsend.b- allow my players access to OGC material of use in my tabletop game.I'm not quite sure what to make of this.  I don't think you're saying that something free is of less intrinsic value than something with a monetary cost; the most valuable piece of OGC is also the one that's been free since the beginning - the SRD.It's unclear if you mean devalued in a monetary sense (ie, free OGC is stealing from the publishers), or an intrinsic sense (ie, free OGC is crap).The argument could be made that OGC made available for free devalues the author/publisher, since no return comes to them...but this is true of any reused OGC.  Finally, since it's forbidden to indicate compatibility and product names are usually PI, any free OGC will have a hard time contaminating its source material, particularly with a large Section 15.Any publisher that quits releasing OGC will, by definition, have quit using the OGL, the SRD, and the d20 license.  They'll be writing for, or creating, an entirely different game system than the one this website is dedicated to, and probably the one they built their company on.  So, yeah...good luck with that.  They'll be replaced by someone better able to take advantage of the changing market.They can attempt to cripple OGC, but that has two negatives for a dubious positive.  Crippling OGC in an attempt to prevent legal reuse establishes an adversarial relationship with the consumer, and doesn't prevent said reuse.  That which is crippled can be uncrippled.  Certain items must be OGC.  Failure to mark them as such courts legal action, not to mention hypocrisy.I believe consumer knowledge about the OGL is only going to rise.  "Amateur" OGL-compliant campaign websites are going to rise.  Those websites, which will become increasingly sophisticated as technology progresses, are a publisher's best friend.  The people that run them are educated, intelligent, and proficient in internet use.  They are hubs in their local gaming community, with connections to people who aren't aware of the OGL or online publishers.  They are the people publishers should be courting, not threatening.CheersNell.</blockquote>

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