Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="AZRogue" data-source="post: 4139513" data-attributes="member: 3963">While some people may have, indeed, taken things too far and gotten more worked up than they should I find it a bit irresponsible of Pramas to try and spin those who support 3rd party publishers of DnD into religious zealots. I would say that his hyperbole is more due to his own unhappiness with the popularity of the d20 system and its effect on other gaming systems than any honest doubt of open gaming's principles. A lot of the benefits of the OGL are debatable, that's true, but the theories of the business savvy Ryan Dancey who basically fathered the open gaming movement make sense and shouldn't be disregarded. The man believed what he wrote and was in a far better position to craft educated theories than most. There may be no real research either way, I don't know, but the ideas are sound and are, at this point, unprovable other than through anecdotal evidence. And Monte Cook obviously feels much differently than Pramas does regarding the OGL. Which one is correct? I'm not sure we will ever really know. What I do know is that I would, personally, miss the 3rd party support that was available in the past should 4E decide to not to release a license at all. I think it would be a loss, from my perspective, and a part of me would regret its end. Ideally, from my point of view, the best outcome we could hope for would be for LIMITED LICENSING in the form of a stricter GSL that would help provide we gamers an interesting variety of material while preventing the horrible glut of low-quality 3PP games that gave the d20/OGL movement such a bad rep. If such a license was initiated I would be more than pleased and completely reassured. The companies that I would buy from would be more than capable of meeting whatever standards are set forth, I'm sure.Now, if you all will excuse me, I get a dozen more virgins in the after life if I post at least three more times in support of open gaming so I best get to it.</blockquote>

Verification