Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Plane Sailing" data-source="post: 3027659" data-attributes="member: 114">I'd say that the opening up of trademarks is not actually relevant, and that the point Chris Pramas makes is the fundamental issue - they may not be releasing all their text online in a downloadable SRD, but the new mechanics and rules which are being invented *are* being released as OGC and so new people can pick them up and develop them further.I'm probably wrong, but it seems to me that the companies who took the risk of pushing the boundaries of design (and largely going OGL) are the ones who have succeeded, and those who were less adventurous and stuck more closely to the d20 trademark have not done so well.This observation is skewed by my personal preferences, of course!Cheers</blockquote>