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I think you're misreading or at least missing the broad points I was making for some more specific points that I was not. They did slow down the release for 5e. I did not say this was in response to poor numbers. I pointed to it being the result of a smaller design team—and a smaller team would...

Honestly, I believe the reason they put it under CC is twofold and little more: 1) Community goodwill. They needed it. This objective comes from the suites that were seeing some of their whales swim away. 2) If D&D can't make the numbers needed to be a big tent IP, it will likely be mothballed...

Many don't want to doubt them and would strongly prefer to think of them as being on their side. They are rolemodels and heroes to many after all. Don't get me wrong, I get that. I know how creator contracts work and just how constraining they can be, and that CR of all people probably were...

I lean slightly more ‘realistic’ with mine—realistic not in terms of lore/mythology but muscle and bone structure. My first encounter with them was THE LAST MYTHAL trilogy, so they tend to be half-elves (fey’ri and deamonfey in FR), and that shaped it alot. Wings are important, lol…even if...

I'm curious as I was under the impression no one had. Who signed and source?

I don't know about 'shortly'. 5e was released in mid 2014, and I remember it being very quiet. There wasn't a great deal of content published (it didn't release with the OGL, which came later in 2016 with the DMsGuild launch), as it was more of a "back to basics" vibe. Anyways, I agree that is...

The OGL 1.0a was in 2000, and the Creative Commons license became a thing in 2001. It predates it. The OGL 1.0a was the industry's Creative Common/open-source license. This is why it is not D&D-specific. The SRD was D&D specific and was included under it, but the OGL itself is system agnostic.

This. I think the non-dnd side of the OGL is getting lost in some of the discussions I’ve seen. A gem of an explanation from Michael Sayre surfaced on the pf2e reddit about why they choose to used the OGL for 2e. While it comes from early last year, it elaborates on why the OGL was favored very...