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<blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 8919056" data-attributes="member: 58197"><p>This is total speculation, but based on what we saw from Wizards, here's what I think happened:</p><p></p><p>The initial decision to revoke the OGL was not seen as a big deal by whoever was calling the shots at the time (supposedly Chris Cao, but since we don't know for sure, I'll just call this person Cersei). They considered the OGL an obstacle to be swept aside, and didn't anticipate much pushback.</p><p></p><p>Then things leaked and there was PUSHBACK like whoa. This set off an internal struggle between Cersei and some other person or faction whom I'll call Tyrion. Tyrion wanted to drop the whole thing and re-commit to the original OGL. There were many acrimonious meetings -- this was the period of about a week when there was total radio silence from Wizards.</p><p></p><p>Eventually everyone realized that <em>something</em> had to be said, and Cersei, who was still nominally in charge, issued the 2.0 proposal and the "We all win!" statement. This did not help matters. At this point, someone higher up the chain whom I'll call Tywin said, "This has got to stop. Cersei, you need to fix this right now."</p><p></p><p>Cersei came up with the OGL 1.2 proposal. Tyrion slipped a limited Creative Commons release into it, then argued that it should be put to a trial by comb... er, public survey, to see if it would in fact be enough. This was done and the survey came back with results that could be summed up as "Gregor Clegane versus Drogon."</p><p></p><p>Tywin said, "You had your chance, Cersei. I'm putting Tyrion in charge. Tyrion, do whatever you have to do, but I have a meeting Monday with the Iron Board of Haasbros, and I want this whole thing <em>gone</em>."</p><p></p><p>Tyrion said, "The one thing everybody liked in the survey was this Creative Commons bit. If we put the whole 5E SRD under it, and agree to back off the OGL, I think that would do the trick."</p><p></p><p>To which Tywin replied, "I don't care what you do as long as I can bring good news to the Iron Board. But if I have to give them bad news..."</p><p></p><p>"I know. Heads. Spikes. Walls."</p><p></p><p>Tyrion released the original OGL from the black cells and put the 5E SRD into Creative Commons, and the common people rejoiced, and Tywin got to bring good news to the Iron Board. But none of them knew about the AI Dungeon Masters gathering beyond the GPT Wall...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dausuul, post: 8919056, member: 58197"] This is total speculation, but based on what we saw from Wizards, here's what I think happened: The initial decision to revoke the OGL was not seen as a big deal by whoever was calling the shots at the time (supposedly Chris Cao, but since we don't know for sure, I'll just call this person Cersei). They considered the OGL an obstacle to be swept aside, and didn't anticipate much pushback. Then things leaked and there was PUSHBACK like whoa. This set off an internal struggle between Cersei and some other person or faction whom I'll call Tyrion. Tyrion wanted to drop the whole thing and re-commit to the original OGL. There were many acrimonious meetings -- this was the period of about a week when there was total radio silence from Wizards. Eventually everyone realized that [I]something[/I] had to be said, and Cersei, who was still nominally in charge, issued the 2.0 proposal and the "We all win!" statement. This did not help matters. At this point, someone higher up the chain whom I'll call Tywin said, "This has got to stop. Cersei, you need to fix this right now." Cersei came up with the OGL 1.2 proposal. Tyrion slipped a limited Creative Commons release into it, then argued that it should be put to a trial by comb... er, public survey, to see if it would in fact be enough. This was done and the survey came back with results that could be summed up as "Gregor Clegane versus Drogon." Tywin said, "You had your chance, Cersei. I'm putting Tyrion in charge. Tyrion, do whatever you have to do, but I have a meeting Monday with the Iron Board of Haasbros, and I want this whole thing [I]gone[/I]." Tyrion said, "The one thing everybody liked in the survey was this Creative Commons bit. If we put the whole 5E SRD under it, and agree to back off the OGL, I think that would do the trick." To which Tywin replied, "I don't care what you do as long as I can bring good news to the Iron Board. But if I have to give them bad news..." "I know. Heads. Spikes. Walls." Tyrion released the original OGL from the black cells and put the 5E SRD into Creative Commons, and the common people rejoiced, and Tywin got to bring good news to the Iron Board. But none of them knew about the AI Dungeon Masters gathering beyond the GPT Wall... [/QUOTE]
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