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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 524493" data-attributes="member: 151">It should be pointed out that there are several key differences in the things that you're comparing here.  The SRD's modifications has legal ramifications, due to the nature of the OGL.  GURPS is not open source, and only SJG has the right to produce anything for it.  Changing the SRD is a little more intensive than updating a word document, like SJG does.It's also not a fair one-to-one comparison.  The reason that SJG has less eratta is not due to their books being much more rules correct: it is due to their being much less rules related material.  GURPS Russia, Aztec and Cops combined have less new rules related material than the first twenty pages of Sword&Fist, for example.  Most GURPS books are world settings, and as such, only a small portion of the book actually has any 'crunchy' material in it.  Take a look at the eratta for GURPS Supers, on the other hand, and you'll see the eratta matches the volume one would expect from a WOTC classbook.There's no denying that SJG has always been ahead of everyone else in having a dramatic online presence and being in-touch with their fan base.  However, they also have a significantly smaller fan base, and a rules-set that is 15 years old.  Comparing the release of a conversion booklet produced in 1985 in a limited print run to be sold in a relatively small number of locations hardly compares to revising the core rulebooks.SJG can and does operate off-the-cuff much more: they are and remain an organization of 10+ full time employees and a handful of contracted writers scattered over North America and England.  WOTC was once over 300 employees, and RPGs are not their only business (nor their original core business).  They've had three layoffs since the SRD first appeared, including the man who spearheaded the effort originally.  Should they get it out, and soon?  Yes.  Could you cut them some slack?  Yes.</blockquote>

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