Calico_Jack73
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Palladium FRPG, Warhammer FRP, or Dark Heresy.
Pretty much. I also think it was a generous, if somewhat self-serving gesture after the Lorraine Williams years. But very much intentional.I don't know why you assume it was a mistake.
Go back and look at Ryan Dancey's discussions of the OGL at the time. The mode of thought then was that it's not rules that drive game editions, but groups. Network Externalities. The validity of this theory might be in question (but I'm hearing lots of people rave about 4e sales, so that remains to be demonstrated), but a mistake it wasn't.
Well, this for those who are not interested in 4e, and will instead choose Pathfinder, True20, C&C, whatever. The thing is, that such OGL games do exist solely because the guy who first wrote the d20 OGL license, didn't do his job very well. He left a bad-wording / loophole that let publishers use the OGL to write their own independent systems that can now exist on their own without any concern for GSL and such. However, if the original lawyer had done his job properly, there wouldn't be any True20, C&C, Pathfinder, etc. available. The only available thing reminding of D&D would be 4e.
As such, my question is: for those who opted for such OGL games, rather than any 4e, if you didn't have them, what would you do?
-- Reluctantly go 4e?
-- Go used books from previous editions?
-- Go GURPS?
-- Go Savage Worlds?
-- Go HARP?
-- Go BRP Cthulhu?
-- Go Runequest?
-- Go WHFRP?
-- Go another game (explain)?
-- Abandon gaming altogether?
Myself, next game I am a player in, is BRP Call of Cthulhu. I am really enthusiast about it...
What I said about the OGL is from what I did read years ago on some internet forum or newsletter. What they said is that the d20 OGL had been worded in such a way that some people discovered they in fact didn't need to use it specifically for making d20 compatible products. They could use it to make games based on the OGL, but without d20 logo and any comment that it would be compatible with d20. What I did read is that this hadn't been foreseen by WotC who only wanted to enable d20 compatible products, not C&C or True20 stuff.
Other than that, this thread is geared at people who don't want to play 4e, reason for which I wrote "reluctantly" play 4e.