Open Gaming Foundation

The Open Gaming Foundation is (or was) an entity intended to promote the use of open gaming, specifically Open Game Content produced under the Open Game License. The OGF was created by, and its website owned and administered by, Ryan S. Dancey, one of the chief architects of the OGL.

In theory, the OGF was intended to manage the Open Gaming License, independently of any publisher. However, the OGF was often criticized for acting as a de facto promoter of Wizards of the Coast, given that Dancey was, at the time of its creation, an employee of Wizards; furthermore, most discussion on its official mailing lists was of the d20 System, which was itself based on Wizards' Dungeons & Dragons game. At any rate, the OGF never existed as a legal entity (nonprofit or otherwise), and the last update to its website was in August of 2003, not long after the release of the v3.5 update to the d20 SRD.