We All Won – The OGL Three Years Later

Cergorach said:

I could easily see people playing D&D5e and borrowing parts of A5E...

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I think that is the intent. Let the players get interested enough to borrow elements from A5e for their 5e games. While some players will stick with 5e, others will Level Up.

Cergorach said:

I also don't know if in later books A5E moved away from the OGL, looking at Morrus's comments, I seriously doubt it.

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A5e's SRD was published under the Creative Commons, the Open Game License and the Open RPG Creator.

Even with WotC moving the 5e SRDs to a CC-BY 4.0 license, I don't think that undoes the harm done by WotC. Any time a hobbyist or independent designer who wants to do their own remix on F20 games but doesn't because they are afraid of screwing up the licensing between multiple, maybe incompatible licenses, it's a loss to the scene.

On a personal level, I won't call it a win on the licensing front until WotC releases a D&D4e SRD under the OGL and/or CC-BY 4.0 license. I'm one of the sickos who prefer 4e over other editions, and even today there isn't a game that does it quite like 4e did. I'd love to see more overtly 4e-derived games out there.