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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 5616145" data-attributes="member: 22424">The OGL was an absolute masterstroke. It gave a huge swath of fans, many of whom had been alienated by TSR's actions, a sense of ownership of the game, and the ability to (try to) realise that secret fantasy many of them had harboured: to publish their own stuff for the game.While there were a lot of stinkers, there was also an awful lot of good stuff came out of the OGL: Mutants & Masterminds, Ptolus, Freeport... and, of course, Pathfinder. Also, the entire retro-clone approach is only (legally) possible because of the OGL.The price of getting that good stuff was having to filter out and ignore the stinkers. That's a price worth paying, IMO.And the OGL was good for WotC as well, even if they don't currently see it. It is very likely that without it, 3e would not have been the success that it was. It nullified a lot of the competition, channelling competing designs into using the same d20 system as D&D (and from there, it was a short hop for groups to move to D&D). And it vastly opened up the pool of people working on game materials - Mike Mearls being the most obvious example.</blockquote>