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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Grydan" data-source="post: 6114800" data-attributes="member: 79401">It's not much of a counter though.Sure, the 4E GSL being unacceptable to Paizo gave them the impetus to launch an OGL-based rule set, but if the OGL wasn't there in the first place they wouldn't have had a rule set to use.Repeating the GSL approach this time would not produce the same result, at least on the whole Paizo/Pathfinder front (though one would expect that the whole 3rd party support aspect would indeed play out much the same). There's no second Paizo waiting in the wings, the GSL is too limited to present the option. 5th won't launch beside an actively supported 4E-derivative.Not issuing the OGL in the first place would have prevented Paizo as we know it from ever coming into being, which is a fairly compelling argument (from a corporate point of view) that repeating the OGL could have long term negative consequences.It's easy to come up with arguments why you shouldn't get off the tiger once you get on. What's needed to convince WotC (corporate, not the creative staff) to re-embrace the OGL are arguments for getting back on the tiger once you've already gotten off, been mauled a bit, and now there's somebody else riding the tiger.</blockquote>