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<blockquote data-quote="Clint_L" data-source="post: 8886913" data-attributes="member: 7035894">I agree that PF was good for D&amp;D...because it was just more D&amp;D. Its success has helped solidify D&amp;D as the way to play an RPG. It was the ultimate proof of concept for the OGL as a way of colonizing the RPG space with ever more D&amp;D.I have bought a few things that only happened because of the OGL (I bought the Tal'Dorei setting a few months back, for example), but my non-D&amp;D RPG dollars tend to go to products that are as far from D&amp;D as I can get. So I wasn't a huge fan of the OGL to begin with - I didn't dislike it, and I'm glad that folks were able to make money off it - I'd rather see a small Kickstarter get money than Hasbro. And ultimately, I do think D&amp;D's absolute dominance in recent years is a net gain for humanity, because I think gaming in general and RPGs in particular are good and everyone should do them. But the homogenization arguably caused by the OGL hasn't been my favourite thing.So I look at what is happening now, and it seems to me that Hasbro is basically just acting like corporations act. I don't think they are being particularly villainous any more than all corporations are villainous, from a lot of perspectives. And I hope that as a result of their actions, instead of suckling at the OGL teat, content creators are able to make their own thing and be independently successful.But then I recognize that this is aspirational thinking, probably pollyanna-ish, and what is really likely to happen is that folks will lose some or all of their income.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Clint_L, post: 8886913, member: 7035894"] I agree that PF was good for D&D...because it was just more D&D. Its success has helped solidify D&D as [I]the[/I] way to play an RPG. It was the ultimate proof of concept for the OGL as a way of colonizing the RPG space with ever more D&D. I have bought a few things that only happened because of the OGL (I bought the Tal'Dorei setting a few months back, for example), but my non-D&D RPG dollars tend to go to products that are as far from D&D as I can get. So I wasn't a huge fan of the OGL to begin with - I didn't dislike it, and I'm glad that folks were able to make money off it - I'd rather see a small Kickstarter get money than Hasbro. And ultimately, I do think D&D's absolute dominance in recent years is a net gain for humanity, because I think gaming in general and RPGs in particular are good and everyone should do them. But the homogenization arguably caused by the OGL hasn't been my favourite thing. So I look at what is happening now, and it seems to me that Hasbro is basically just acting like corporations act. I don't think they are being particularly villainous any more than all corporations are villainous, from a lot of perspectives. And I hope that as a result of their actions, instead of suckling at the OGL teat, content creators are able to make their own thing and be independently successful. But then I recognize that this is aspirational thinking, probably pollyanna-ish, and what is really likely to happen is that folks will lose some or all of their income. [/QUOTE]

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