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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alphastream" data-source="post: 5776770" data-attributes="member: 11365">My thanks to Morrus for linking to my blog. I've posted part 2 and will post part 3 later today.Does the quote from that site match what was recorded on the Tome show podcasts? I don't recall that. Regardless, I think the entire subject of the Eberron digital stuff is far from clear. Critical Hits heard at the time that it had been a canceled idea and Jim had forgotten that (instead of being something that was scheduled for later). Given that we haven't heard anything about it, that seems likely. My personal take-home is that the slip at Gen Con really doesn't tell us anything we don't know: Wizards has long considered ways to provide older content in digital form but has never found a proper way to do so. (Of course, we all have ideas, but the company has not found a way to do it that meets their goals).D&D Next may provide that way, but it remains to be seen. While Dancey has made a really good case for the OGL, on the whole it isn't clear that the OGL has been good for Wizards. Whatever profits were made in the 3E days were likely undone in the 4E days through the edition wars the OGL facilitated. I'm all for a company that chooses to be a non-profit, but Wizards has not been that company. They likely did have the noble cause of protecting D&D (for which I am grateful!), but they did not secure D&D as a non-profit venture. When you have to look at profit you have to do more than want the OGL to foster diversity and collaboration in the marketplace. Looking at the OGL we should immediately see real problems based on the edition wars. D&D Next should take a look at this very carefully. When even Ryan Dancey says D&D is important to the future of RPGs, then I think we all want Wizards to get any future OGL right - and not just with a view of preserving a single edition of D&D; the future of D&D must also be insured.As a parallel, I'm not a huge fan of FASA's second edition of Shadowrun. I really liked 1st. But, I'm very glad that we saw a third and especially the fourth edition (which is now my favorite). I similarly look forward to an eventual fifth edition of Shadowrun, and while I think SR could benefit from other RPG companies collaborating, I don't want to see anything that would impede a future edition or create edition wars. I feel the same way about all of my RPGs.</blockquote>

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