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Message: <blockquote data-quote="King of Old School" data-source="post: 4157408" data-attributes="member: 8789">Clearly, the people who run WotC don't agree with Monte.WotC has not included refinements from other games into D&D -- there is not one single element of the SRD that has been lifted from other companies' OGC.  Likewise, there is no WotC-produced D&D book that uses other companies' OGC except Unearthed Arcana (which doesn't count, as it's explicitly a catalogue of optional rules that exist outside of "regular" D&D).  Any minor refinements that WotC has lifted from other games has done so without reference to the OGL and would have happened even if the OGL didn't exist.  This is exactly the opposite of what Dancey predicted in his original article explaining the d20 concept.The OGL didn't arrest the decline of the RPG industry at all.  It produced a temporary bubble, and the bubble burst because of the massive amounts of crap produced with a d20 logo, and now the industry is in worse shape than it was before d20 came along.  No one disputes this, not even Dancey himself.  Now one can say that the early introduction of 3.5 hastened the bursting of the bubble... but you know what?  Even without 3.5, the bubble would have eventually burst anyway.  The bottom line is that the OGL didn't arrest the decline of the RPG industry at all -- it slowed it down, and then shoved the industry off a cliff.KoOS</blockquote>