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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ranger REG" data-source="post: 2778238" data-attributes="member: 533">Initially for WotC, it's to give outside publishers the toolkit to make supporting niche products while they concentrate on core rulebooks, assuming the publisher wishes to use the OGL and the d20STL.Initially for Ryan Dancey, to give WotC support from companies that may or may not employ former TSR/WotC designers, but in the long term give publishers a chance to "spread out" on their own with a Linux-like template. Mongoose is an example of such a company who started as a nobody publishing d20 Slayer's Guides and now licensee of many famous brand RPGs.The Open Gaming License is like a pen-n-paper version of the computer code-based GPL. It will never go away, so long there are Open Gaming Content to be used.The SRD-based rules engine may lose it trademarked name -- d20 System -- but it is still available for any creative publishers to incorporate into their game product. We've already seen second- and third- generation rules engines spawned from the SRD. And they are fast becoming well-known established ruleset for future products lines. It's only a matter of time before other labels (e.g., True20) will be as known or surpass the popularity of the trademarked d20 System, which may fade into RPG obscurity.But that depends on whether WotC will continue to support d20 Modern into the next edition, and whether that line will also be marked "off-limit" or not.</blockquote>