Lizard wrote: "FUDGE and Fuzion were examples of well-designed game systems released under open or semi-open licenses prior to the D20 SRD. Neither can be called a commercial success. The D20 market exists because there's something worth taking out of the open pool that provides an incentive to put stuff in."
I could not disagree more. D20 exists to A) support a major publisher's product line B)give said publisher access to a great (theoretically) wealth of new derivative designs without having to spend resources getting them. WotC is NOT the great crusader for open gaming. They are a corporation that NEEDS to make money. We can see that in the D20 v3.0 L. Since D20 ONLY requires 5% OGC I can hardly see D20 as being the "open pool" of gaming. You would be, or should be discussing this in the context of OGL rather than D20, since D20 is, in all fairness, a marketing tool to make money, period. Therefore, FUDGE and Fuzion are is some ways, actually, more successful, because more products have been made with these two systems, by different publishers than just publishers using the OGL (without D20). Seriously though, let's not mix words. D20 is cash and control. The "pool" is OGL. Richard Stewart Sanguine Productions Ltd. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sanguineproductions.com _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
