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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scholar &amp; Brutalman" data-source="post: 4135893" data-attributes="member: 33642">I can't speak for you, but for me the answer would be "none of them are any better." I don't buy products to adapt to another system. When I'm playing another system, I'll buy products designed for it.If there are a lot of buyers like me, then all the OGL does is make it easier for customers to move from playing D&D - and buying products from WotC - to playing an OGL game - and spending their money on another companies products.I doubt that the OGL helps get people into the RPG hobby. D&D is the market leader: the vast majority of players I've met started with D&D. The OGL may be a good way for people to move away from D&D. This is good for the customers and good for the 3rd party developers, but not for Wizards.And that's my problem with this open letter and other comments like it. Posters take it as self-evident that the OGL has been wonderful for WotC. I'd like to see some evidence, in the form of sales analysis that removes the effect of the new edition release that occurred at the same time. The OGL has certainly been wonderful for RPG customers and for the developers at other companies, but the people who have the sales data to judge whether it's been good for WotC are pretty much all at WotC.</blockquote>