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Message: <blockquote data-quote="thecasualoblivion" data-source="post: 4837922" data-attributes="member: 59096">I don't think its as much an OGL bloat as an OGL bust. Lemme try a rough timeline, based simply on what I've heard:(I'm not an expert, so excuse me if I'm wrong on some of this)1. 3E is released alongside the OGL, and many 3pp books are released and sell well.2. FLGS and the market become buried with these 3pp.3. A combination of too much supply and a lot of bad material giving the entire 3PP industry a bad name crashes the market and people stop buying.4. 3PP books that aren't selling start clogging up shelves, FLGS and distributors are hurt and as a result start distrusting OGL/d20 books.5. A few publishers manage to establish a good name and a following for their products despite all this(Necromancer, Goodman Games, Green Ronin, Malhavoc, ect.)6. 3.5E D&D is released, making all of the previously released books somewhat incompatible. Older 3PP books for the most part stop selling altogether.7. A new mini-boom for 3PP as they release 3.5E compatible material, sometimes just a rehashing of previous works.8. Another bust, where 3PP books stop selling because of oversupply and bad books giving the the whole concept a bad name. 9. 4E is announced, and with a few small exceptions both supply and demand for these books lessens dramatically.10. 4E is released, without a real framework for 3PP to work with. One major 3PP jumps on board(Goodman) and has some success, but the others don't convert. The market for new 3.5E material is uncertain.</blockquote>

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