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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 6623082" data-attributes="member: 37579">Option C) Wishful thinking. Possibly with a dash of denial. They've been working on the OGL for over a year now. They would have started that before the playtest ended and the product was finalized. They likely wanted it to be done around the same time as the core rules, possibly even the PHB. Heck, they could have started work on it when they began work on 5e, waaaay back in 2011. It's not like they need to playtest the OGL or make it specific to the final version of the rules.The fact it's been almost a year since the books were released and they aren't even willing to discuss the probably contents albeit without details (like Mearls repeatedly said they would do last year) means it's likely very much still in flux. They're "working on it" either means they're still fighting over the contents or a legal department is dragging their heels like crazy. But the latter would explain a delay of a month or two. A couple months after the DMG, maybe a third catching up after the holidays. It doesn't explain 4-5 months after the DMG was finished. The fact of the matter is the legal details are NOT that hard. They have the framework for two licences already written. The hard part is already done. It'd be easy to copy the original, revise a few terms where needed to protect the IP and prevent another Pathfinder. And they've had years to go over the problems with the OGL and GSL. This is a project that should take a week, not years. IF it was even remotely a priority. So the problem is elsewhere, either internally at WotC or at Hasbro. If it was something they could compromise on or talk through they would have done so months ago.Mearls is likely just being optimistic. Walking into meetings like we walk into edition war arguments thinking "I've got this now. This time when I present my case and argue my point they'll all agree with me." Still hoping he can win and get the OGL he wants out. But it doesn't work out like that. So the licence just sits there doing nobody any good.</blockquote>

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