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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 5902545" data-attributes="member: 8461">I do think that Fifth Edition should use the OGL...but I don't think it will.WotC has clearly learned something from their past mistakes (particularly where customer relations are concerned), but there's still a lot of ground for them to cover. In particular, my sense of them (which has no inside track whatsoever) is that the people who make the decisions regarding Open Gaming still find it suspicious and untrustworthy.I think that WotC, as a whole, still doesn't grok the concept of just giving huge portions of its materials out to anyway who wants it, in perpetuity. They still see the downsides as concrete and immediate and the benefits as intangible and elusive. I think they understand that a not-insignificant portion of their fans wants open gaming, but they'll try and placate us with a half-measure; a new license that allows for some openness while still have greater restrictions than the OGL did - it'll be the GSL ver 2.0.I hope I'm wrong, and WotC makes Fifth Edition OGL. But I doubt it.</blockquote>