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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Art Waring" data-source="post: 9239594" data-attributes="member: 7037141">They can change the rules significantly enough so that the 2014 5.1 SRD will become incompatible & thus obsolete in a few months. Character creation has already changed significantly. The new SRD will very likely be released with a new OGL license. I highly doubt they are going to have anything new released into creative commons, especially since they have failed to fulfill their promise to release both the 3.5 & 4e SRD into CC.I think that its cool if you feel that way personally, but I don't think that means you get to say that every 3pp scene is toxic, while the wotc scene isn't? You can't compare anything else in the industry to wotc. It is absurd to try. They make a billion off of MtG every year, they can lose money on dnd and not care about it, saturating the market with nothing but dnd, cutting out LGS' and selling direct to amazon, cutting out distributors and companies that have supported them for years. They can restructure the entire industry on a whim, either by threat of rescinding licenses, or by being so financially invulnerable as to wither any dissent to their desires.////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////-Some Final Thoughts For the Evening Regarding the History of the OGL:What you might not understand, is that for those of us who fully embraced the 3e SRD back when it was released, we saw hope. We saw the original OGL as the holy grail, and have studied the original 3e SRD like a holy codex from the early days of the open source movement as an example to shine. We were terribly, horribly, utterly wrong.FOR OVER TWENTY YEARS, we trusted them to stay true to the spirit of the license they themselves created. For over twenty years the OGL was a safe haven for publishers, thats over twenty years of goodwill that now lies dead in the boneyard. They do not get that goodwill back from 3pp's in a few months, if ever again.They tried to burn the whole industry down, including me. I spent years making a 5e compatible game that was less than a year away from release when the OGL debacle happened, and I lost not only years of work, and my entire business, but I lost any faith in their ability to keep any promise they might make in the future. I trusted them a second time after the 4e GSL tried to kill the OGL, it is my failure alone that I trusted them again.Should I as a potential 3pp be receptive to their "positive" social media presence, or their successful attempts to destroy my years of hard work?My response was to leave the 5e ecosystem and make my own game, they really didn't leave us with any other options. I am not contributing to a dnd monopoly where its one game to rule them all.</blockquote>

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