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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 5790088" data-attributes="member: 22779">The half a million dollars is what the 4e DDI generates right now.  67k subscribers as I type this, and that's only the confirmed subs.  It could easily hit almost 100k.  That's half a million dollars a month.An OGL 5e would see character builders (we saw this for 4e within MONTHS of 4e's release, even if it wasn't legal), online rules compendiums, and online tools (a la the Hypertext SRD - again, something that only took months to get up and running) being set up very quickly and quite possibly for free and, also quite possibly, just as functional as the DDI setup.If 5e is OGL, then there would be nothing WOTC could do about that.  So, the OGL has to be worth half a million dollars a month before it's really worth doing.  Because a closed system like 4e, even with the fractured fan base, is pulling in that kind of money.  Again, the OGL and online tools don't play nicely together.  You might even wind up with a situation like in 3e where only the core rules are OGL and everything else is closed.  So, the DDI tools continue to grow and grow, building on material that WOTC publishes, while the 3PP get left in the cold.  And, you'll see all sorts of resentment festering if that happens.  OGL supporters will constantly be beating on the DDI walls trying to get 3pp products into the DDI.I can't really see that the return would be worth it to be honest.  If WOTC gives up tool based DDI, then it will work.  But, so long as WOTC wants to have tool based subscriptions, and monetize the rules, it won't play together with an OGL system.</blockquote>

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