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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark" data-source="post: 1369863" data-attributes="member: 5">That is indeed the primary benefit.  Most companies place a great value on that.  For print companies, where one gets stocked in stores, and the ability to visibly be recognized as useful to customers using the d20 System, can be the difference between low/no sales and adequate sales.  Some might even contend that the only way to ever hope for good to excellent sales numbers in the current market climate is to publish under the d20STL in addition to using the OGL.  Some companies, who have their own marketing engines find benefit in producing some products under the OGL only, as well as products under the OGL and d20STL.  I'm not sure if there are any publishers of OGL-only products, who do not also use the d20STL, that have achieved any sizeable level of success.While the OGL doesn't prohibit usage of any OGC provided the terms of the OGL are properly followed, one of those terms prohibits compatibility claims without additional agreements such as the d20STL.  One could, in actuality, be completely compatible but cannot claim such in the product or in the marketing of a product without such a separate arrangement.Metaphorically speaking, if I tell you that if you want to eat a sandwich, you have to sit in a chair, but further tell you that if you want to eat a sandwich and wear a blue shirt, you must also sit crossleged.  You might derive some benefit in attracting people who are interested in sandwich-eaters by virtue of wearing the blue shirt but, either way, you still have to be seated in a chair.  It's really a matter of whether you find sitting cross-legged comfortable and how great you find the benefit of wearing a blue shirt.  Sometimes it is a matter of where the people setting the table will place your chair.Thanks! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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