Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stormonu" data-source="post: 5989600" data-attributes="member: 52734">Actually, d20 modern was released under OGL.  You can produce OGL content for d20 modern.Perhaps, but it was gold for gamers.  No longer could a company's bad decisions keep D&D from being available - even if WotC or somehow Hasbro pulled the line from the shelves, it would still be available.Yeah, pretty much.[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif](Full Article <a href="http://www.wizards.com/dnd/article.asp?x=dnd/md/md20020228e" target="_blank">Here</a>)However,[/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]I think this is where things fell down.  People, as witnessed by the rise of Pathfinder, are apparently fairly resistant to (radical) change.  The OGL created a sort of anchor point people didn't want to move away from, because they didn't have to (me included).  If someone didn't continue to support "their game", someone else could.  So instead of making things better, things sorta stagnated and only improved very, very slowly.  I think what Dancey failed to account for was that, by basing this on the computer GPL, computer hardware tends to only last for a few years and you HAVE to get new hardware.  Books, on the other hand, last for years and years.  There's folks who still have their 1E books in good condition (again, like me).[/FONT]</blockquote>