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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mearls" data-source="post: 2764284" data-attributes="member: 697">*chuckle*The only things preventing a wiki that contains a variety of OGC are barriers of time and effort. Discussing it is a waste of time. Most people don't understand open source and how it is supposed to work. I suggest "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" as a good starting point. Try googling it - O'Reilly publishes a dead tree version, and I'm 90% certain there is a creative commons version floating out there somewhere.Some people see open source as a threat, others don't. I don't, mainly because the PHB. MM, and DMG have been available online for free since 2000. An OGC repository won't make piracy any more common, nor would it make DMs any more likely to simply email PDFs to their players. I seriously doubt that a wiki could marshall a fraction of the resources needed to continually funnel new releases into its holding on anything shorter than a scope in months or even years.The real issue, AFAICT, is whether such a repository would breed better game mechanics. That remains to be seen.</blockquote>