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| [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Alec A.
| Burkhardt
| Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 10:47 PM
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| Subject: Re: [ogf-d20-l] Speaking of the SRD
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| On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, John Ughrin wrote:
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| > From what I'm hearing on the various supers lists we may have several
| > systems competing. I was thinking for the future about how we
| determine what
| > "wins" and becomes the standard d20 rules for that genre.
|
| The market decides. Under the terms of the OGL there is no decision as to
| what anyone else publishes. As long as enough people are buying various
| "supers" systems they all continue to exist. If one is obviously superior
| to all the others, more people will buy that product and other developers
| are more likely to develop additional products based on the the system in
| the better product. Of if none of the systems are superior by themselves,
| someone is likely to combine the best aspects of each (as far as that
| might be possible) to make the next generation product which is superior.
err...well yes. What I mean then is...who decides when the market has
decided?
(I mean, its all well and good to say "the market decides", but its
notoriously bad at filing its paperwork. :))
I thought part of the point of having an SRD in the first place was to
provide a "clearinghouse" of standardized rules that were well-accepted. As
it stands the SRD has "extensions" added on for Medieval Fantasy. I guess I
actually have several unclear images of what the SRD will be/do. I'm
wondering as well if we can tolerate multiple extensions for the same genre,
and how exclusive the genres will be to each other, since they share that
list of defining terms.
