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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 8900905" data-attributes="member: 22779">See, that right there is the assumption I'm talking about.  You are assuming that the OGL ensured they would stay on the top of the hill and that with the OGL gone, they will "eat away at D&D while WotC... struggles to attract new players".  That's my worry.  What if you're wrong?  What you are saying here seems to be the prevailing assumption.  That WotC without the OGL will no longer be safe from challengers.  But, your presumption here is that A.  This is true and B. WotC perceives this as true.My fear as that A might not be true and B very much isn't true.  Which is why instead of thinking that we will have a future where we have a bunch of roughly equal sized RPG producers, I worry that we will have WotC and then everyone else climbing into a tiny OSR sized niche that is largely irrelevant to the hobby.IOW, you are assuming that a large percentage of gamers will "switch over".  Or, rather, a large enough percentage that it will make a difference.  I'm not at all convinced that this will be true.  Again, I'm absolutely not arguing that this is right.  Not at all.  I wasn't arguing wait and see before because I agreed with WotC.  I was arguing that way because I really didn't want to believe that WOtC was going to be this colossally stupid.  Jaw droppingly stupid.  And, frankly, I do think that the best state for the hobby would be half a dozen roughly equally sized producers all banging out games.  Fantastic.  But, my fear is that this best case scenario won't pan out and what we will actually have is WotC producing D&D, D&D remaining as the 800 pound gorilla, and then everyone else chasing the table scraps left over.</blockquote>

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