Real Dungeons and Dragons

[Jibartik]

Originally Posted by loramin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

You fail to understand: the book you linked is D&D. It just wasn't labeled as such because they didn't want to play by the rules of the OGL (the legal license that came along with reusing D&D 3E rules). Emphasis added:

oh wow its not even a TSR or Wizards of the coast game.

[loramin]

Originally Posted by Jibartik [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

oh wow its not even a TSR or Wizards of the coast game.

Yeah, Ryan Dancey (awesome guy) was big at WotC when 3E D&D came out, and he pushed the OGL (and the whole idea of non-WotC people being able to make D&D products) hard.

It was amazing for the game and community, creating tons of "D20" products (plus a few like Everquest that weren't official "D20", but still were using all the rules) ... and then they got greedy and thought "someone else is getting to make money off D&D besides us!?!?!?", kicked Dancey out, and pulled the OGL way back with 4E [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]