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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 4028848" data-attributes="member: 8461">I disagree. The fact that WotC chose not to make most of their D&D books contain OGC doesn't mean that they didn't like or support their own OGL. If that were true, they wouldn't have expanded it several times to include material from books such as Deities and Demigods, the Epic Level Handbook, and the Expanded Psionics Handbook. It's not for non-employees to say why WotC made the decisions they did, unless they choose to tell us.Actually it's always brought up when people complain about new technologies making industries dealing in replaced technologies "suffer," which is why I brought it up.And yet, there's still no rebuttal for it.Are you talking about with D&D, or with everything? If it's the former, then I disagree, as open sourced materials has never been about content being given away for nothing - that was a byproduct of some books being almost entirely OGC, and since (as I've mentioned before) we don't know what (if any) open content restrictions will be in the GSL, that could still be the case in 4E.If it's the latter, then I still disagree, but that's rather off-topic.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> I think it does help the industry that much, as it allowed many new companies to form based around d20 products. Not all such companies lasted, but many are still around, and now making new games of their own, and feeding the new market, even after the "glut" has largely ended.</blockquote>

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