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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hossrex" data-source="post: 4135962" data-attributes="member: 60784">Its weird.  I agree more with the logic, and ideology of the people who support the OGL, and worry 4E DnD will change that policy...  possibly after they've already shipped core books.Yet...I can't help but to think that I have never personally gained any advantage from the Open Game License, and while I'm sure the *MAJORITY* of people on this message board have benefitted from it in some form or other (just my guess), the vast majority of DnD players haven't (again, my guess...  we all realize that for every one of us who posts to a DnD message board, there are ten casual players who just want to play the game once a week without bothering to think as much about the *SYSTEM*, as they do about their *GAME*).Wizards of the Coast released more then a book a month (on average) during the 3.X era.  Is it so terribly important that we also get all this other content from smaller publishers?  I'm sure there is more then a handful of positively genius content released because of the OGL...  the quality unfortunately doesn't change the sad fact that the vast majority of DnD players will be blissfully ignorant of said quality.  WoTC measures the movement of its product by the hundreds of thousands.  The collective moralistic of us here (myself tentatively included...  at least on principle) are biting our lips, and wringing our hands over a few companies that measure its sales...  not in hundreds of thousands...  but in hundreds, *OR* thousands.These handful of people creating genius material for 3.X under the OGL wont simply throw up their hands in defeat and walk away into the sunset because they (entirely theoretically) can't create 4E material.  They'll either continue to create 3.X stuff, in which case if you're following a particular campaign, or world setting you can continue to do so...  or they'll just start creating alternate game rules.  If you're interested enough in the role playing game environment that you post on ENworld, and worry about how Hasbro will influence the new edition of Wizards of the Coasts game Dungeons and Dragons...  well...  you're probably well read enough to know when these special people are creating new genius works, and you're likely as able to find a game to play them, as you are to find a game to play third party "unofficial" 3.X DnD rules.The majority of casual DnD players (of which five players out of our seven person group would be considered) had no idea there were third party DnD material...  have no idea there might be no future third party DnD material...  and really care far more about how they're going to find that Ancient Lich, or one of the seven parts of that damned Rod then they're concerned with who else gets to create DnD material.Moral concern is good...  moral outrage is occasionally warranted...  picking your battles is divine.This entire debate is to ensure that product lines that don't even exist yet (4E third party material) are maintained.  If they never exist, who'll miss em?  No one is saying people can't keep making 3.X stuff.  I've read enough about the OGL to know they can't do that.Feel free to pick apart my statements, purposely misinterpret my words, and flame me mercilessly.  I don't come here often enough to likely read the replies anyway.</blockquote>

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