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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 6432147" data-attributes="member: 7006">I suspect the easiest reason to come up with why there wouldn't be another Pathfinder if 5E goes OGL is that I don't see any way that WotC would release 6E that *also* wasn't OGL (thus avoiding a backlash of 5E players and someone stepping up to revise 5E.)WotC had the OGL and then didn't use it for the following edition, and got a massive amount of crap from a whole lot of people because of that decision.  They tried to put the genie back in the bottle and I don't think anyone would say they were ultimately successful at it.  If they now go back on that 4E decision and decide to release 5E through the OGL... they are admitting that the 4E rollback did not succeed as they probably hoped, and that a OGL D&D is a more likely avenue towards popularity and success.  As a result, I do not foresee *any* probability that whomever might be in charge of D&D and WotC when they decide to start up 6E will look at the past history and decide "Yeah, let's hold the game back from the OGL a second time."  That's just not going to happen.  I don't care who is in charge at the time... I don't think *anyone* would attempt that potential mistake twice.  I know some people like to dump on WotC's business acumen... but come on, no one is really going to do that again.So if there's a 5E OGL *and* as a result a 6E OGL... there won't be any company that would be able to market a 5E retroclone at the same sort of level that Paizo was able to with their 3E retroclone.  Because all the potential customers and business partners would be able to move on to an open 6E too.</blockquote>

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