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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kzach" data-source="post: 4668454" data-attributes="member: 56189">I have nothing against older editions or other game systems. I have nothing against published worlds or modules. In fact, I'm pretty ambivalent about the entire industry.I just thought that needed to be said before I continue.I'm curious as to why WotC doesn't just make up some sort of OGL or GSL or whatever acronym fits, to allow third parties, or perhaps just one third-party, to publish for profit, things for older editions.WotC could get a small slice of the pie for doing literally nothing but allowing it to happen. It'd make a lot of people happy that they have continued 'official' support. And it'd probably go a long way towards mitigating the hate, not to mention dialling down edition wars.Or would it?Is there something I'm missing that would make this a bad idea? I mean, someone like Dragonsfoot, for instance, could lobby to be the only third-party producer of 1e material, Diaglo could get the OD&D rights, and someone, surely, would want to take up the mantle of 2e. Wouldn't that go a long way towards making people happy(er)?</blockquote>