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Message: <blockquote data-quote="buzz" data-source="post: 1962355" data-attributes="member: 6777">3e is a specific edition of D&D. It is no bigger than itself. d20, however, can refer to the larger set of games that use it as a foundation.I suppose it might. What makes you think that WotC has interest in doing this? Where are there indications that a fourth edition of the game is coming anytime soon, and that it's going to to coincide with the abandoment of the OGL, and that it's going to be wholly incompatible with the current edition? Nowhere, that's where.As big as ENWorld is, it absolutely no indicator of gamers as a whole. Using the same baseline, I see many gamers who are embracing the diversity of products out there to blend themselves a nice, tasty d20 melange. But that would be just as anedcdotal.It's often helpful to do so, so you know which books to bring.So, say, one group using Relics & Rituals on a regular basis is playing a different game than one using Complete Arcane, then? Than one using Torn Asunder? They're all using different subsystems, they must be splintering the market, right?I don't tihnk the phrase "fractioning the marketshare" means what you think it means. All of these people are playing D&D.All depends on when, if ever, it comes out and what its content looks like.True. What does this have to do with your point?True. What does this have to do with your point?But I thought that was your point. You're the one depicting this fractured market where everyone is isolating themselves in d20-deprivation-chambers.Sorry if I'm getting snarky, but I just don't see that what you're trying to posit makes any sense. You're essentially arguing that everyone playing variants of a single house system is somehow more divisive than everyone playing wholly different systems that have nothing to do with each other. You're also putting forth the idea that having a hsot of publishers make use of the OGL to make products that share this systemas a core is somehow an incredibly bad thing, and you're putting all the blame on WotC. I.e., you're claming that diversity and wide availability of choice within a given system is a terrible thing. That's just nuts.</blockquote>

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