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<blockquote data-quote="Wulf Ratbane" data-source="post: 4427508" data-attributes="member: 94">I think folks should be required to go back and read the OGL FAQ and understand the history of the OGL.Because I am really tired of reading, &quot;WotC didn't like people regurgitating the SRD! They never anticipated that!&quot;The RPG hobby is not a zero sum game. Obviously this is not a concern for WotC. If they thought that gamers had a limited amount of income, then they also wouldn't want to craft a new license that sees their supplements competing with OGL supplements, nor their adventures competing with OGL adventures, etc. It doesn't work that way.People in the RPG hobby have more money to spend than WotC has products to meet their demand. Since gamers are likely to be spending those dollars somewhere anyway, the point of the OGL was to make sure that those dollars were, at least, staying captured inside WotC's house system: d20.That is a net win for WotC.But of course anybody who actually remembers what the STATED PURPOSE of the OGL was already knows this.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wulf Ratbane, post: 4427508, member: 94"] I think folks should be required to go back and read the OGL FAQ and understand the history of the OGL. Because I am really tired of reading, "WotC didn't like people regurgitating the SRD! They never anticipated that!" The RPG hobby is not a zero sum game. [i]Obviously[/i] this is not a concern for WotC. If they thought that gamers had a limited amount of income, then they [i]also[/i] wouldn't want to craft a new license that sees their supplements competing with OGL supplements, nor their [i]adventures[/i] competing with OGL adventures, etc. It doesn't work that way. People in the RPG hobby have more money to spend than WotC has products to meet their demand. Since gamers are likely to be spending those dollars somewhere [i]anyway[/i], the point of the OGL was to make sure that those dollars were, at least, staying captured inside WotC's house system: d20. That is a net win for WotC. But of course anybody who actually remembers what the STATED PURPOSE of the OGL was already knows this. [/QUOTE]

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