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<blockquote data-quote="Yair" data-source="post: 4139943" data-attributes="member: 10913">It's always interesting hearing from the high-up folks.I suspect the OGL has overall helped WotC sales, and I think it helped its' products quality by providing more talent and encouraging them to make productws that were better than their competitor's (even if they didn't really compete economically). However, I wouldn't bet my life on it.What I do know is that the OGL has been good to me, as a consumer. It provided me with producats that I would never have seen otherwise - from Midnight to tiny Philip Reeds pdfs. It allowed me to feel connected to a community, and know that I at least have the option of publishing D&amp;D stuff legally without WotC or anyone else having a say about it. I just don't want to go back to pre-OGL days. But I've resigned myself to the fact that I will. Whether the above quote means what it the conspiracy theorists think or not, it seems clear to me at this point that the limitations of the GSL will not allow me the freedom I had under the OGL, or allow me to purchase a new Blue Rose (based on 4e stuff). At this point I doubt if the new GSL would even allow me to publish anything non-commercially.My personal solution to the dilemma is to make/purchase an OGL game taking the best elements (IMHO) from all the various variants, 4e included. That's still far, far in the future, however.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Yair, post: 4139943, member: 10913"] It's always interesting hearing from the high-up folks. I suspect the OGL has overall helped WotC sales, and I think it helped its' products quality by providing [i]more[/i] talent and encouraging them to make productws that were better than their competitor's (even if they didn't really compete economically). However, I wouldn't bet my life on it. What I do know is that the OGL has been good to me, as a consumer. It provided me with producats that I would never have seen otherwise - from Midnight to tiny Philip Reeds pdfs. It allowed me to feel connected to a community, and know that I at least have the option of publishing D&D stuff legally without WotC or anyone else having a say about it. I just don't want to go back to pre-OGL days. But I've resigned myself to the fact that I will. Whether the above quote means what it the conspiracy theorists think or not, it seems clear to me at this point that the limitations of the GSL will not allow me the freedom I had under the OGL, or allow me to purchase a new Blue Rose (based on 4e stuff). At this point I doubt if the new GSL would even allow me to publish [i]anything[/i] non-commercially. My personal solution to the dilemma is to make/purchase an OGL game taking the best elements (IMHO) from all the various variants, 4e included. That's still far, far in the future, however. [/QUOTE]

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