I feel like I did my part (along with tens of thousands of other gamers) to encourage them to do the right thing. I don't feel embarrassed about that at all.
I mean...okay. I think this happened in spite of the cynicism, not in any way because of it, but at least everyone being loudly against what they were trying to do helped, so sure.
My guess is that they will make a new, more restrictive, license entirely separate from OGL for OneDnD/5.5/6e/whatevertheycallit. Similar to what they tried with 4e.
goes back to eating my crow doused in apple vinegar
I think this is the least likely of all
possible future, tbh. Like yeah in theory it could happen, but...nah.
They backed down on everything! They’re leaving OGL 1.0a completely alone, released the full 5.1 SRD under Creative Commons, and closed the 1.2 survey. Technically they could still release 1D&D under a new license, but it would be a pretty tone-deaf move, and moreover, unless it’s truly incompatible with 5e, it should be easy to clone using the CC license.
Yep. They've made it actively harder to get away with pulling a 4e like some folks think is inevitable. Making OneDnD less compatible with 5e than they originally planned would just lead to:
1) tons of people yelling that they knew wizards was just going to try to do the same thing again, etc,
2) it would do more damage to 3pp, which the community has soundly rejected
3) It would make Tasha's, Xanathar's, and the setting books totally useless for any group that switches, which they very strongly don't want. Remember, unlike every other edition of dnd, those books are
still selling well.
The math simply isn't the same as previous editions, in this case, and the math is much harder against "4e GSL redux" than it has been in the last 8 years.
I will gladly bet one person $50 right now, that you will be able to use Tasha's subclasses with OneDND classes without any house rules or homebrew needed, and the license will be similar to the OGL 1.2 proposal minus deauthorization
at worst.