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<blockquote data-quote="William Ronald" data-source="post: 5765288" data-attributes="member: 426"><p>I think that an OGL would be good for 5E. It might produce adventures and other products that would allow WotC to focus on the core rules. (A common complaint about WotC for the past decade is that other companies produce better adventures.</p><p></p><p>However, unless Pathfinder sales dropped precipitously, I doubt that Paizo would completely switch over to providing products for 5E. There is still the market that Pathfinder serves and I suspect that market to continue regardless of what WotC does. There are many players who like Pathfinder, and I am not sure that WotC can do anything to unite a fragmented market. It would truly take something special to reunite a market that has been fragmented for what will soon be four years. People have invested a lot in their chosen systems. So, I think that WotC would have a hard sell. Also, I think that several of the publishers other than WotC might take a once bitten, twice shy approach.</p><p></p><p>However, I have some reasons to doubt that WotC would release an OGL for 5E as Hasbro might be concerned with losing further market share. As was pointed out earlier, sometimes companies are very resistant to change.</p><p></p><p>OT -- Post number 4000!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="William Ronald, post: 5765288, member: 426"] I think that an OGL would be good for 5E. It might produce adventures and other products that would allow WotC to focus on the core rules. (A common complaint about WotC for the past decade is that other companies produce better adventures. However, unless Pathfinder sales dropped precipitously, I doubt that Paizo would completely switch over to providing products for 5E. There is still the market that Pathfinder serves and I suspect that market to continue regardless of what WotC does. There are many players who like Pathfinder, and I am not sure that WotC can do anything to unite a fragmented market. It would truly take something special to reunite a market that has been fragmented for what will soon be four years. People have invested a lot in their chosen systems. So, I think that WotC would have a hard sell. Also, I think that several of the publishers other than WotC might take a once bitten, twice shy approach. However, I have some reasons to doubt that WotC would release an OGL for 5E as Hasbro might be concerned with losing further market share. As was pointed out earlier, sometimes companies are very resistant to change. OT -- Post number 4000! [/QUOTE]
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