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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Remathilis" data-source="post: 8877103" data-attributes="member: 7635">This isn't a dig at Darrington Press specific since they have a unique relationship with WotC, but I think I can begin to understand WotC's stance on OGL...1. WotC spends a lot of capital developing core D&D rules. 2. WotC releases said rules for free to use.3. Company X comes in, makes compatible (and sometimes competing) products. The products do not declare any OGL (and thus aren't growing the game) or necessarily funneling sales back to the mothership. Essentially, they are making money off of WotC's labor and WotC isn't seeing much ROI. So at the very least, they want to use it as market research, carve out a few exceptions to its use, and ask those who have gotten very wealthy off it to recoup some of their cost to making the actual system that made them wealthy. But again, we don't know the specifics. The devil is in the details and I don't think WotC has all the details dry yet. I just don't think WotC is being completely unreasonable with companies making a reasonable profit off their work.</blockquote>