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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 6305432" data-attributes="member: 2525">Actually that is the one claim he had predicted that he hasn't continued to claim since then.  The original plan was that all OGL games would NEED a PHB to play them.  That didn't happen.  Indeed, they didn't actually expect people to replicate the same rules they had published in addition to making their own games based on them.  But that is exactly what happened - you didn't need a PHB to play all those other games, because they were simply replicating all the rules they needed to replicate in their books.  You didn't need a PHB to play Spycraft or M&M or Call of Cthulu or Delta Green.  The original intent was for everyone to buy the PHB to play any other game based on the open license, and it ended up there were definitely NOT selling PHBs to all those other game players.  And you sure as heck never needed a DMG or MM to play those other games.And it wasn't just non-fantasy games of course...Pathfinder proves that one, and other companies were starting to do it before them (and one company even had the call to put out a miniature PHB).  It was inevitably leading to nobody ever needing a WOTC product to play any d20 game.To address this oversight they first tried to put out new OGL licenses (different numbers).  Most people simply ignored the new ones though - why use a more restrictive one when the older one remains indefinitely in effect and is less restrictive. So the next step was a shift in the edition.  This was one primary force behind 3.5e.  Monte Cook has talked about it, how the OGL wasn't functioning quite as intended in that respect (though he was not pleased with the shift).And you don't hear Dancey claiming it anymore either, and in the distant past when he did he refused to put any numbers on it, unlike everything else he was saying.  That aspect of the OGL did not work out.  They did not sell more copies of the PHB, and certainly not the DMG or MM, because of companies putting out OGL games which had nothing to do with D&D, and then eventually games which were like D&D but which had their own type of PHB.</blockquote>

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