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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Glyfair" data-source="post: 2495257" data-attributes="member: 53">I believe there are several assumptions made here that are not accurate.  First, if I'm interested in using some other companies OGC, I probably bought the product myself already.  I don't feel that having an online SRD is necessary for good OGC to be spread.  Sure, having it widely available for free will probably make it more widespread.  However, that's not an incentive to put out professional products with such material included.I believe that the number of gaming publishers who don't pick up other companies products is miniscule (especially in the d20/OGL market).  Word of good product spreads and other companies want to use it.Secondly, I think few companies would complain about someone making use of part of a product or referring to a product.  Their concern would be with making the bulk of their product superfluous.  For example, if someone had an online SRD, a book that's a collection of magic items wouldn't be attractive if someone was just putting all the important information online.  One good example is Freeport.  Almost everything was OGC, and several companies put Freeport in their campaign worlds because it was OGC.  They didn't feel the need to publish the majority of the product, they just referred to it.</blockquote>