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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 5769853" data-attributes="member: 22424">If WotC want to unify the community, then nothing short of the OGL will do. (Well, they could go for an equally open license... but why go to the work of crafting an equivalent license when one already exists?)Why?If 5e is not open, then all the 3PP who have their own systems will continue to develop their own systems. The ones who don't, who serve to support other systems, will support Pathfinder, not D&D. The net effect of all of this will be lots of little drifts of customers away from WotC. They're probably not enough to bring the beast down... but they're enough to prevent reunification.Actually, I'd go one further. Not only should 5e be OGL-compliant, but WotC should provide a mechanism whereby 3PP publishers can integrate their material into any 5e-DDI tools. Doing this will redirect a huge swath of the Pathfinder support instead towards D&D. It may well convince some 3PPs to drop their own systems in favour of supporting D&D. And pretty soon, Paizo and Pathfinder would start to look awfully isolated... That's probably their best bet to kill off Pathfinder, which is probably a necessary step if they want reunification.</blockquote>