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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SWBaxter" data-source="post: 2787412" data-attributes="member: 27926">I'm probably still missing the point, but it seems to me that if the third-party publishers wanted to do this and still retain the advantages of working under the SRD, what they'd do is publish rules for stat generation, XP tables, XP awards, and level advancement, with the SRD added on. Whether that could compete with D&D 4.0, I dunno.Now OTOH you might mean that somebody should produce a ruleset and make it open content, then a bunch of other publishers would flock to it. I doubt this would work anywhere near as well as with the d20 SRD, because the d20 industry is built around the fact that umpty-zillion gamers own a PHB. Nobody else is likely to hit the same kind of market penetration in the near future. There are actually a fair number of rules systems that are either open, or have licensing fees that are pretty low, and none of them have anything like the d20 industry feeding off of them. The reason for this is simple - if 1% of D&D players buy your d20 supplement, that's enough to build a business around, 1% of D&D players is still a pretty large audience by RPG standards. 1% of most other games' audience is not large enough to fund a business, or even to pay back a freelancer.Maybe someday we'll see another game achieve D&D's level of market penetration. Until then, I don't think we'll see any really successful competing systems spring up with a third party industry built around them.</blockquote>

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