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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheFindus" data-source="post: 5446312" data-attributes="member: 75791">I do not expect them to. Being able to pay for food and health insurance is more important than "the game". I would hope the two go hand in hand most of the time, though.I know a lot of people who think the rules of the new version of DnD are progressive. They most certainly were the result of the 3.x experience and what the designers of 4E thought was not so good about third edition.But I was not comparing different existing editions of DnD. I will not start or participate in an edition war. What I am saying is that when you make rules for a roleplaying game, any game really, and offer these rules to other companies, your competition, forever and for free without being able to take that decision back, you have to think about what will happen if you - as WotC/TSR have done at least two times before - publish a new version of these rules. After all, rules do evolve and at some point you will want to publish a new version. What is the competition going to do with the free old rules that they can continue to publish new material for? What impact will this have? I think these are valid and important questions before you create an OGL.And I would like to know if WotC would have sold less books if they had not created the OGL but instead found some other way of cooperating with competing companies without giving them the legal right to use the rules forever for free. I am not so sure that they would have made less money.</blockquote>

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