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Message: <blockquote data-quote="buzz" data-source="post: 1961574" data-attributes="member: 6777">Similar enough that you can use proiducts for one pretty much interchangably with the other. "Very similar" is an understatement.The point I was really trying to make is that citing a list of d20 games that are 90% identical (some of which not even published by WotC) as evidence that WotC is "splintering the fanbase" the way TSR did is akin to claiming SJG splinters their fanbase every time they release a GURPS supplement.WotC is almost solely focused on creating D&D product. The d20M release schedule is glacial, and the SWd20 schedule even more than that. Up until Eberron was released, they essentially supported *one* campaign setting, i.e., FR (Greyhawk is the RPGA's job now). The majority of their products are campaign-neutral and of use in any D&D game. All of their games share a house system. The OGL gives other publishers incentive to support (and thus propagate) this house system. Even the D&D minis game is essentially an RPG accessory that happens to contain skirmish rules.Ergo, I find the claim of similarity to TSR in the '90s ---and the image of fractious players staunchly refusing to aknowledge any d20 variant but their own--- really silly.</blockquote>