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<blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 8904391" data-attributes="member: 19857">Right. It was written that way on purpose.IIRC The d20 System Trademark License restricted the use of the d20 Trademark on digital stuff along with a whole lot of other restrictions. That was the plan - to open the game and use the d20 Trademark to control what could or could not be branded with it as an &quot;official&quot; d20 product.&nbsp; Video games and character creation tools were specifically not allowed to carry the d20 logo.After the folks who created the OGL and the d20STL left the company, the folks who came in either didn't understand the point of it all or didn't realize what they actually had and eventually just dropped the STL entirely. Though they didn't try to get rid of the OGL because they had been saying it was irrevocable and everyone knew it was irrevocable. So they didn't try to revoke it. They tried to create a new edition of D&amp;D that was different enough from 3e that it would not be compatible with the OGL'd SRD instead.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jer, post: 8904391, member: 19857"] Right. It was written that way on purpose. IIRC The d20 System Trademark License restricted the use of the d20 Trademark on digital stuff along with a whole lot of other restrictions. That was the plan - to open the game and use the d20 Trademark to control what could or could not be branded with it as an "official" d20 product. Video games and character creation tools were specifically not allowed to carry the d20 logo. After the folks who created the OGL and the d20STL left the company, the folks who came in either didn't understand the point of it all or didn't realize what they actually had and eventually just dropped the STL entirely. Though they didn't try to get rid of the OGL because [I]they had been saying it was irrevocable and everyone knew it was irrevocable.[/I] So they didn't try to revoke it. They tried to create a new edition of D&D that was different enough from 3e that it would not be compatible with the OGL'd SRD instead. [/QUOTE]

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