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<blockquote data-quote="Nellisir" data-source="post: 6294697" data-attributes="member: 70">I feel like people forget that Pathfinder wasn't a response to 3.5 ending, or 4e, or WotC deciding not to use the OGL.&nbsp; Pathfinder was a response to a) WotC's extremely delayed schedule, so Paizo had to do SOMETHING to keep money coming in, and b) the GSL, which many companies took one look at and threw away.If WotC had gone with the OGL for 4e, I'd place money that we'd be playing some variety of 4e right now. Paizo would have put their spin on it, Green Ronin would have done their variant (briefly), Mongoose would have played with it...the issues that people have and had with 4e would have found solutions.&nbsp; As is, WotC forced a &quot;my way or the highway&quot; choice on its audience and reaped the consequences.And if you're arguing that companies would or will adopt a very limited OGL, just look at the GSL. The GSL is a handicapped (nearly decapitated) OGL/d20 STL hybrid. Compare the number of companies that use the OGL vs the GSL. It's hard to think of a metric by which the GSL could be considered a success.I think there are ways to limit a new version of the OGL without decapitating it, but the audience that cares has gotten a lot smarter about the OGL since 2008, when we saw the alternative, so it may all be moot now. WotC has probably lost the chance to get people to adopt a more limited OGL over the OGL itself.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Nellisir, post: 6294697, member: 70"] I feel like people forget that Pathfinder wasn't a response to 3.5 ending, or 4e, or WotC deciding not to use the OGL. Pathfinder was a response to a) WotC's extremely delayed schedule, so Paizo had to do SOMETHING to keep money coming in, and b) the GSL, which many companies took one look at and threw away. If WotC had gone with the OGL for 4e, I'd place money that we'd be playing some variety of 4e right now. Paizo would have put their spin on it, Green Ronin would have done their variant (briefly), Mongoose would have played with it...the issues that people have and had with 4e would have found solutions. As is, WotC forced a "my way or the highway" choice on its audience and reaped the consequences. And if you're arguing that companies would or will adopt a very limited OGL, just look at the GSL. The GSL is a handicapped (nearly decapitated) OGL/d20 STL hybrid. Compare the number of companies that use the OGL vs the GSL. It's hard to think of a metric by which the GSL could be considered a success. I think there are ways to limit a new version of the OGL without decapitating it, but the audience that cares has gotten a lot smarter about the OGL since 2008, when we saw the alternative, so it may all be moot now. WotC has probably lost the chance to get people to adopt a more limited OGL over the OGL itself. [/QUOTE]

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