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<blockquote data-quote="rknop" data-source="post: 7657167" data-attributes="member: 20176"><p>I am facepalming that WOTC isn't putting out legal PDFs of the 5e system. Honestly, do they think it's still the 1990s? This is one thing holding me back from really checking out 5e. I'm past lugging around large numbers of large books for refrence. (I still iike the print books for <em>reading</em>, but for reference the PDFs are so much nicer. That's why, if possible, I like to get both. Evil Hat's "Free PDF" program, and Paizo's subscriptions, are nice in this regard.)</p><p></p><p>I will also be shocked if they actually put out an open gaming license for 5e. Pleasantly surprised, yes, but shocked. I expect they might come out with some sort of third party licensing thing that a lot trumpet as "the 5e OGL", but it won't be open at all, and attaching the "Open" name to it is going to be a bit of a travesty. I suspect that the corporeate overloards at WOTC and/or their massive parent company still see WOTC has having been burned by the the OGL during third edition. (On the other hand, it was clearly good for *us* and for the gaming community. Whether or not WOTC was burned by it is debatable; I think they were burned by their retreat from it in 4e, honestly.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rknop, post: 7657167, member: 20176"] I am facepalming that WOTC isn't putting out legal PDFs of the 5e system. Honestly, do they think it's still the 1990s? This is one thing holding me back from really checking out 5e. I'm past lugging around large numbers of large books for refrence. (I still iike the print books for [i]reading[/i], but for reference the PDFs are so much nicer. That's why, if possible, I like to get both. Evil Hat's "Free PDF" program, and Paizo's subscriptions, are nice in this regard.) I will also be shocked if they actually put out an open gaming license for 5e. Pleasantly surprised, yes, but shocked. I expect they might come out with some sort of third party licensing thing that a lot trumpet as "the 5e OGL", but it won't be open at all, and attaching the "Open" name to it is going to be a bit of a travesty. I suspect that the corporeate overloards at WOTC and/or their massive parent company still see WOTC has having been burned by the the OGL during third edition. (On the other hand, it was clearly good for *us* and for the gaming community. Whether or not WOTC was burned by it is debatable; I think they were burned by their retreat from it in 4e, honestly.) [/QUOTE]
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