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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Benjamin Olson" data-source="post: 8893520" data-attributes="member: 6988941">I mean I probably overstated the likelihood. Really all I was getting at is that if they were going to drop D&D at any point in the near-ish future it will probably be when the launch of OneD&D pressures them to switch rule sets anyway, because there's both business considerations and considerations about needing to perform while grasping with a new game.I think you're fundamentally right in recognizing that WotC recognizes Critical Role's value as their most effective brand ambassadors, that if they have any sense (far from a certain) will cut them a less short-sighted deal than those they foist on everyone else through OGL 1.1, and that even if they didn't products that would potentially be subject to OGL 1.1 are a relatively small part of the CritRole empire.But if the public sufficiently sours on WotC, Critical Role is an entity inclined to cut ties with a toxic partner even if it doesn't really make hard business sense. They have their own brand to worry about and it has a lot of good will they don't want tarnished. I don't see this particular OGL imbroglio getting them there, but a WotC management team terrible enough at community relations to get them to this point in this controversy will most likely find other ways to absolutely alienate their fans in the next couple years on the road to the rather blasé rehash and cynical cashgrab of a product that OneD&D will most likely be. Meanwhile if serious rivals arise and make a serious play for the D&D crown, Critical Role is the belle of the ball. So I think it's more likely than you do that they jump ship, but still it requires a series of poor decisions on WotC's part, which while not improbable still don't seem particularly likely.A few months ago I'd have considered it borderline impossible that Critcal Role switches game systems or launches their own (I might well have said something along those lines in this very thread, I can't remember and don't care to look back through 8 pages of old posts, but I certainly said such things on other threads). Now I'd say, "eh... somewhere in a bout a 10-30% range of likelihood.</blockquote>

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