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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Angellis_ater" data-source="post: 5025177" data-attributes="member: 37442">To be entirely correct, Pathfinder was born out of the GSL - its delays and hardnosed first draft more or less forced Paizo to either close down or to find another way.As has been pointed out before, game rules cannot per se be copyrighted so Paizo could've easily gone ahead and defined their entirely own system based almost wholesale on the D20 mechanics and still be fine. Now they took different paths, made different choices - including using and building off the OGL - which brought with it a number of other benefits (being viewed as a successor-game, bringing over OGL supporters both in terms of customers as well as companies).</blockquote>