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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wicht" data-source="post: 5445855" data-attributes="member: 221">I don't know. I think the OGL has, in a way, hurt WotC but it didn't have to. Firstly, a minor nitpick counter argument. I would disagree that it was a minor mistake to issue the OGL, at least on the part of the creator of the OGL. As envisioned, the OGL did exactly what it was intended to do. Part of the intent was to free the actual product (D&D) from the possibility of a change in company ownership leading to the death of the product in its current form (i.e. rebranding it as a boardgame, a card game, etc. and allowing the RPG aspect to die). That is, it was supposed to allow for exactly what Paizo did. While this is not necessarily good for WotC/Hasbro, it was part of the publicly stated reason for the license and therefore cannot properly called a mistake.   But,  if WotC has used the OGL in a manner similar to how Paizo is using it, I think WotC would be enjoying phenomenal success with it. The glut of bad product (a phenomena I think personally to be overstated) would have (and did) correct itself after a period of time. It was merely a moment in the history of the brand that needed to be weathered. If WotC had weathered that problem and began incorporating the good 3pp material in their books, they would have benefitted from the license. That is, it was only a minor problem because they chose to view it that way when all along they should have sought to use it in a way beneficial to themselves.</blockquote>

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