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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Turjan" data-source="post: 2555941" data-attributes="member: 3477">I don't think so.People didn't go to d20 companies to support D&D. You make it sound as if Ryan Dancey's business strategy, which originally resulted in the OGL, was part of the conscious buying decisions of early customers. The real reason was that people were curious. Many people got burnt by some bad d20 purchases and went back to 'WotC only'. Others, like me, were not that much enthused with some of the WotC products, either, and decided to keep an open eye for good product, regardless of the company (well, with some exceptions <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />). Nowadays, I buy more d20 products than WotC products, because I buy what interests me.I agree with Arnwyn. Many d20 publishers are heavily hit by the current distributor turmoils. WotC doesn't have these problems, and those companies that managed to get under the White Wolf umbrella don't have these problems, either. You can see, though, that WW is tightening the thumbscrews and allows only those titles to be published through S&S that promise decent sales. Mongoose seems to have become somewhat more successful with US distributors in the course of the last year. Green Ronin was heavily hit by the distrubutor disaster, and I'm not sure whether they have fully recovered from this problem yet. For details, you have to ask the companies yourself, though, as I can only judge the situation from what I see.This means that many d20 publishers have a visibility problem at the moment. Most customers simply don't have the possibility to find good d20 products at the preferred dealer of their choice.</blockquote>

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