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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vanuslux" data-source="post: 4576488" data-attributes="member: 937">I don't think they have a great deal of significance now, but I do believe that the OGL was hugely significant in it effect on the RPG hobby as a whole.  Third Edition would certainly have been successful all on its own, but the OGL turned it into a full on gold rush situation that had ripple effects throughout the industry.  The gold rush is long over, though, and while I wouldn't say 3rd party publishers are insignificant I definitely think their overall effect on the hobby as a whole is rather small compared to this point after the release of Third Edition, in some part because the GSL pretty much neuters 3rd parties trying to make material for the current edition.</blockquote>