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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Xyxox" data-source="post: 4367905" data-attributes="member: 16542">Your statement is simply untrue. The OGL is not now, nor can it ever be defunct. The SRD is not now nor can it ever be defunct. Both will live on in perpetuity.4E and the GSL, on the other hand, will definitely be defunct one day. In fact, the fourth edition is a good example of planned obsolescence. When WotC determines it's time for 5E, all 4E publishing will halt and all publishers will move to 5E or die.Those publishers that stick to the OGL, on the other hand, will never have to switch. They can continue publishing forever under the OGL.What you are witnessing is the forking of D&D. I'll put my bets on the SRD and OGL for survival because, when all is said and done, they CAN NEVER BECOME DEFUNCT simply because of the open nature of the licensing.So claiming that the OGL is defunct is simply a wrong statement. IT will never be defunct, unlike 4E which is planned to become defunct.All hail Ryan Dancey.Precisely!D&D has forked. You ahve to choose your path. Until the GSL, I was solidly looking at 4E. Now, given the nature of the OGL, the only logical choice is the path that can never become defunct. That is the path of the OGL and the SRD.</blockquote>