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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 5810946" data-attributes="member: 158">One of the purposes of the OGL is to ensure the fanbase doesn't get offered the choice of "use a monopololistic product, or stop buying the kind of stuff you like." It's not to stagnate the game, and the OGL is anything but stagant. If I wanted, right now, I could make an OGL product that incorporated the core d20 mechanic, a modified FUDGE skill system, a modified spell point system from the Runic SRD, the combat stunts from Iron Heroes, and several new mechanics to fill in gaps and enhance the system, and release the whole thing as Open Content, and the thing would have as little to do with d20 as VW Beetles have to do with Ferraris. More to the point, I could do it with NO CHANCE of being sued, assuming I followed the license.If it's good, and gets picked up by the gamer community, someone else takes it, modifies it, releases something else even better, and the whole community is enriched. What it DOES do, is ensure that if I release crap, then those mechanics get dropped by said community, and they keep playing what they want. Forward movement is not necessarily progress, and in my opinion the OGL ensures that forward movement for the sake of forward movement is curtailed, without stagnating progress.</blockquote>