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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheAuldGrump" data-source="post: 5456030" data-attributes="member: 6957">I think that most can agree that, whether or not creating the OGL was a good idea, creating it and then abandoning it was a poor one. The OGL created a deep reservoir of good will, but that has now been lost.Personally, I would not have played as much 3.X if there was no OGL - as I think I have stated I treated the entire OGC library as an enormous smorgasbord. I sampled from many more dishes and treated the section detailing where OGC had been borrowed from as a shopping list. (In particular Swashbuckling Adventures had a list that suited many of my tastes.) Having so much made me greedy for more.Having that vast, if sometimes ill lit, kitchen broadened the possibilities I could use in my game, and allowed me to give sources to my players.It meant that 3.X had an enormous stable of writers producing material, and shaping the raw materials in new and interesting ways. The game avoided the same-same feel that some systems have fallen prey to, in part because so many people were trying to do so many different things with it.I own a good deal of 3.X material, and an even greater amount of OGL material that I used to compliment my D&D games.I own no 4e material, by WotC or others, but do own Pathfinder and have started, slowly, to broaden my collection with 3PP material created to compliment Pathfinder, as once I collected D20 material. And I find a use for much of the 3PP and WotC material with the new game.I do not think myself unusual in this, but I do think that WotC has closed off their market by excluding so much from their current license. The horses have escaped and closing the barn door is only going to keep them outside.The Auld Grump</blockquote>

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