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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scribble" data-source="post: 3027524" data-attributes="member: 23977">Well, yes and no. I realize (as I said earlier in the thread) that by virtue of the OGL and use of the SRD it is in fact open. So yes, what I was saying was other companies opening up their rules and trademarks, with their own SRDs and d20 logo type things.Please don't confuse this as an attempt by me to say companies that don't are somehow behaving improperly. That is not in any way what I'm saying. (If it seemed to be implied in some way I appologize as I'm doing other things while posting so maybe I said something in a bad way.) Like you said, you are well within your rights to control your trademark. The question was more of a WHAT IF, rather then a what should be. (does that make sense?)My question was, what IF they did. Would, as we seem to have seen with the d20 system, the transformations eventually morph into a new direction, outside of the original system? And if so, what bearing would that have on the game? (and on gaming in general)To me, at least, it seems a lot of the current Variants could only exist because of the ease of the original use of the d20 logo. In the scenario above would we see a new "new breed" of variants based on variants?With something like the  M&M superlogo, and the Tru20 Logo the change in in your hands really (And I'm not arguing it shouldn't be, as you are well within your rights to hold it there. I'm simply saying that because you maintain a level of control, the change wouldn't be as organic.)</blockquote>

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