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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 4326420" data-attributes="member: 11760">Because the OGL has been great for the roleplaying game industry in general, as it created a whole new caste of professional game developers, which has benefited everyone.Piss off the folks at Hasbro who aren't on board with the whole open source thing -- which is pretty much everyone over 50, incidentally, which is also the demographic of the folks running multinational corporations -- and you can pretty much guarantee 5E will be closed and that Hasbro will likely be TSR-like in their response to third party publishers.I think a future with at least some openness to it and a non-adversarial relationship between the D&D brand holders and third party publishers is a benefit, myself.</blockquote>