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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 6307255" data-attributes="member: 22424">The theory, as laid out by Ryan Dancey all those years ago, was that the Core Rulebook of the system (the PHB in the case of D&D) is by far the biggest selling item in the line. To the extent that everything else is worth doing only insofar as it leads to more sales of the PHB.What this meant for the OGL (and especially the d20 license) was that by enabling people to publish adventures/supplements for 3e, it would encourage many more people to play D&D, and thus help to drive PHB sales.(Where this theory starts to fall apart is when people started putting out their own standalone games that didn't require the PHB for use. Or, in the most extreme case, Mongoose's "Pocket Player's Handbook", which was a digest-sized book that effectively just reprinted the PHB rules and thus cut out WotC entirely, at a minimum development cost to them.)Of course, lots of things have changed in 15 years. That logic may now be altered, or may not hold at all.</blockquote>