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<blockquote data-quote="Conaill" data-source="post: 2777633" data-attributes="member: 1264">And yet, one could argue that giving away 99% of the content of the core books for free should have ruined the market precisely for those core books - and it hasn't really. Sure, WotC releasing the SRD had a big effect on the size of the market as a whole, and they are raking in a lot of buys from the less computer-savvy elements of that market as well. This is not something that could be hoped to be achieved by a small publisher. But fact is, *most* people who use the SRD on a regular basis actually own the books as well. And yet Wulf, for example, has decided to make the GT Character Creationrules available for free, indicating there's at least one publisher who thinks that releasing at least *some* part of his core mechanics isn't going to be a death sentence for his product.Wulf - I'd still love to hear a bit more about your strategic reasoning behind this. Is this just a trial balloon on your part? Do you think it may increase sales of GT or GT-related products by releasing this bit of the core mechanics?If we want the OGL to achieve what a lot of us had been hoping for - i.e. a gradual evolution towards better and better rules variants (which I know is not what it was designed for - it was designed in the first place to make WotC money...), then I think freeing the very *core* of the mechanics may be the way to get there. (And by &quot;core&quot;, I don't mean &quot;all the crunch&quot; - could be perhaps only 10-20% of the content of an all-crunch book.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Conaill, post: 2777633, member: 1264"] And yet, one could argue that giving away 99% of the content of the core books for free should have ruined the market precisely for those core books - and it hasn't really. Sure, WotC releasing the SRD had a big effect on the size of the market as a whole, and they are raking in a lot of buys from the less computer-savvy elements of that market as well. This is not something that could be hoped to be achieved by a small publisher. But fact is, *most* people who use the SRD on a regular basis actually own the books as well. And yet Wulf, for example, has decided to make the GT Character Creationrules available for free, indicating there's at least one publisher who thinks that releasing at least *some* part of his core mechanics isn't going to be a death sentence for his product. Wulf - I'd still love to hear a bit more about your strategic reasoning behind this. Is this just a trial balloon on your part? Do you think it may increase sales of GT or GT-related products by releasing this bit of the core mechanics? If we want the OGL to achieve what a lot of us had been hoping for - i.e. a gradual evolution towards better and better rules variants (which I know is not what it was designed for - it was designed in the first place to make WotC money...), then I think freeing the very *core* of the mechanics may be the way to get there. (And by "core", I don't mean "all the crunch" - could be perhaps only 10-20% of the content of an all-crunch book.) [/QUOTE]

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