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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Brodie" data-source="post: 7696405" data-attributes="member: 6776288">I think WOTC got it right this time around with the OGL with 5E. Back in 2000 when people realized just what they could do with the OGL, things exploded and there certainly was an abundance of d20 stuff out there, ranging from adventures and supplements to the more adventurous reworkings complete with handbooks with character creation rules of their own. I've been gaming since 2000 (I'm a relatively late-comer given that I was 23 then) and d20 - not D&D - is still my favorite system. Mostly. I know how it works, I'm really familiar with it, and I've even used the SRDs for d20 Modern to make two different games (one a western, the other a space game). When I'm in control of a d20 game, I feel like I'm in control and can decide what rules should be in stone and what can be tossed out the window, like rolling for hit points. (When I first ran a d20 game and told my players to max out their hit points when leveling, they got worried that I was going to put them through a wringer.)When WOTC turtled with 4E, that and the 4E system itself turned me off of the D&D brand. 5E is magnitudes better than 4E and what should have followed 3E. I definitely like the new rule set but the only way I'm going to be involved with 5E is if I'm a player.The 5E OGL and how WOTC is handling it is good for industry and for creative fans that want people to see their stuff. 2016 is far more digital age than 2000 and its promising to see WOTC embrace it the way have in this. Giving creative fans a share of the profits of their stuff as well as giving them good visibility to the target audiences is win-win. For now. I'd be ecstatic if I created content and WOTC decided to incorporate something specific I wrote into their products. But if I wrote, say, an adventure and most  or all of it ended up in a WOTC book under someone else's name, I'd be pissed. So, yes; this is good until something blows up in their faces.I'm sure none of us wants to see that happen but at the same time I'm sure we're all waiting for it to happen.</blockquote>

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