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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 6623252" data-attributes="member: 37579">Except for how they approached all those 3rd Party Publishers early in the process and let them know the OGL was coming and they wanted to win them back. So some thought was given. And they've been talking about how their was going to be an OGL for months before launch. It had to be on their minds. And how they talked about releasing it in the fall of 2014 throughout the early part of that year, which means they were either working on it or thought it would be really, really quick to finish in the gap between the release of the DMG and Christmas. When did they say that?But, again, even if they didn't even look at the document until January 2015 after the DMG had been released it doesn't take 4 1/2 months to revise a licence, either the GSL or OGL. They did say that, but even at the time it sounded like spin. A justification for the OGL being late, making it sound like a plus rather than an unfortunate delay.Yes. Because one of Mearl's last real comments on the OGL was how they were going to discuss what it would entail and then sometime later the actual text would be released. This is pure speculation.The person on jury duty was handling the conversion documents, which means they were on the game design team and not the legal team. The legal departmet would be the primary lead in the OGL. Not much game knowledge is really needed for the OGL beyond a rough familiarity with the product.And while they've confirmed jury duty was behind the conversion document they've been curiously silent regarding the cause of delays for the OGL. In fact, Mearls most recently said it needed more time, which doesn't sound like it was delayed so much as taking longer to finish.No evidence, just my feelings. Since this is a "crystal ball" thread. I'd love to be proven wrong and to eat each and every one of these words. I want few things more than for WotC to come out with a kickass OGL and make me look like a colossal idiot right now. But I don't think that's going to happen.Mearls strikes me as a big proponent of the OGL. After all, it helped him get his start in the industry. Ditto Jeremy Crawford IIRC. There are likely other OGL fans in the building who owe their careers to 3rd Parties. And I think they want something much more like the 3e licence because of this, something for the next generation of designers. But I don't see the management of WotC being favourable to this, not with Paizo being so problematic and the desire to retain as much of the IP as possible. So I think there's a battle going on at WotC as they try to get a licence more lenient than the GSL through while other factions want something else.</blockquote>

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