OGL question

[Henry]

I dunno, it's always the first page of a d20 book that I read. I don't think it's an unusual as you think, at least among people who buy d20 books vs. WOTC D&D books.

Speaking as a pure consumer of RPG's, I think I can count on one hand the number of Section 15's I've read without being directed to as the result of some net discussion. It's the number-one flipped-past page for the consumers, I think, apart from a cover leaf.

 

[Paradigm]

Many readers? I suspect the incidence of customers who read the OGL at the back of the book is extraordinarily low. I further suspect that those who read it prior to purchase and base a purchasing decision upon it is lower than that by an order of magnitude. It sounds like very extraordinary behaviour to me.

Depends upon your definition of 'many' I suppose. If it is 1%-2% of Codex Arcanis purchasers, then it is hundreds of people. All it takes is one such reader to write a review and mention that, based on the OGL license, the book contains a lot of rehashed material. I don't consider a big problem, because it hasn't kept the Player's Guide to Arcanis, or Magic of Arcanis, etc. from selling well.

 

[Paradigm]

Mark's got it right.

Yes he does... and that was what I was trying to say earilier.