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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ranger REG" data-source="post: 2505899" data-attributes="member: 533">A free but non-open license, and WotC is footing the bill to operate a reviewing committee? They barely keep up with their own current payroll roster, or did you forget how many layoffs they had in the past 5 years?And how would this reviewing committee be reviewing third-party books seeking d20 label or somesuch? Will they just oversee that the product do not violate the license, which is what they're doing now without a reviewing committee, or will they themselves get involved in the design process as well, marking in red pens that this stats are wrong or this paragraph is boring and demand a rewrite?I mean, if it is the latter, it may ... hah! ... cut down the mediocre quality products we have during the d20 boom. But the designers of the product may have to surrender their creative integrity and freedom to WotC. In the end, it's no longer a third-party product but a WotC product.It may also cut down the flood of d20 products because of the pipeline going through the committee, but publishers can't wait for WotC especially when the longer the product is in review, the more his business will cost everyday. Worse yet, if WotC can't review their product in time, they have to reschedule with the printing company, and they may miss critical selling periods, like having advanced copies available for GenCon. Yeah, but the beauty of the SRD is that you can use them without having to ask permission from WotC.</blockquote>

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