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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kerrick" data-source="post: 4707397" data-attributes="member: 4722">Read your OGL sometime. It has to be attached to ANY material using the SRD, whether or not you intend for it to be open. Stuff posted on forums is exempt, but I'm fairly sure stuff on websites falls under that aegis.That's true, more or less. 4E was previewed at DDXP in (edit: er, Feb 08), and WotC had a conference call with a select group of publishers (Paizo being one of them) regarding the GSL around the same time. The plan was that said publishers would sign an NDA and get a copy for review and pre-signing. When WotC continually dragged their feet and failed to produce anything, Paizo said "screw this" and announced Pathfinder in March. Given that Jason had been using a lot of the material as house rules already, it wouldn't have taken him long to write it up for a formal playtest. We do agree, though, that they made a good decision. I would go further in saying that WotC made a bad one by delaying the GSL. I think the suits want to keep the IP firmly in their own hands, but the GSL serves them much better than the OGL - 3PPs can produce material that forces players to buy core books, which funnels money into WotC's pockets, but the 3PPs can't take the core rules and make their own spinoffs. With a business model like that, it makes me wonder why they took so long to get it out.</blockquote>