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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fox Lee" data-source="post: 8335797" data-attributes="member: 4346">Since you can't legally own the rules to a game (only the books/text/etc text detailing those rules) the OGL is also a masterful way to control third-party dev output. WotC can lawyer-bully anybody they like (and win, because most indie devs are too small to argue a case if it came to that), but their ability to actually stop D&D-compatible third-party dev is... dubious. Plus, cracking down on thrid-party content would make them into villains, just like original TSR made themselves.The OGL was a brilliant solution to that. Suddenly WotC are the good guys, even though all they're really doing is promising not to bully you if you play by their rules. WotC ends up with more control than they might purely on a legal basis, but devs/fans still feel like they have been given something. Even if letting Pathfinder happen was a fumble, I still think providing a "voluntary" license was a really smart corporate move.I will straight up die on the hill of 4e being the best the game has ever been, but even I will agree that the GSL was a joke by comparison :\</blockquote>