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<blockquote data-quote="SlyFlourish" data-source="post: 9451603" data-attributes="member: 54840">This is my sort of controversial and confrontational position.I have a clear agenda for saying that 5e is a platform bigger than just the two 5e compatible versions of D&amp;D (D&amp;D 2014 and D&amp;D 2024). I think recognizing that 5e eclipses any one game makes the whole hobby stronger. The hobby is stronger when we recognize that 5e is now independent of any publisher and that multiple publishers are publishing full core RPGs around it compatible with the thousands of other 5e products. I don't think it diminishes D&amp;D or the work of the designers at WOTC to say so. I think it benefits them since many of them wrote for 5e before working at WOTC and now write for 5e after leaving WOTC.So what's the flip side? That we all must recognize that Hasbro as a corporation has control over 5e? Why is that something that we'd want to reinforce?Hasbro is actually doing a fantastic job ensuring that they're a beneficial member of the various publishers of 5e. They put out the 5.1 SRD in five languages in the CC. They're committed to release the core D&amp;D 2024 rules into the 5.2 SRD early next year. That's fantastic! It makes the whole hobby stronger.No one will forget that the designers at WOTC in 2014 put together the core of 5e and then put it out under an open license. We won't forget that they released it again under the Creative Commons license in 2023. But that doesn't mean we have to say 5e = D&amp;D unless we want to say that. Why would we?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SlyFlourish, post: 9451603, member: 54840"] This is my sort of controversial and confrontational position. I have a clear agenda for saying that 5e is a platform bigger than just the two 5e compatible versions of D&D (D&D 2014 and D&D 2024). I think recognizing that 5e eclipses any one game makes the whole hobby stronger. The hobby is stronger when we recognize that 5e is now independent of any publisher and that multiple publishers are publishing full core RPGs around it compatible with the thousands of other 5e products. I don't think it diminishes D&D or the work of the designers at WOTC to say so. I think it [I]benefits[/I] them since many of them wrote for 5e [I]before[/I] working at WOTC and now write for 5e [I]after leaving[/I] WOTC. So what's the flip side? That we all must recognize that Hasbro as a corporation has control over 5e? Why is that something that we'd want to reinforce? Hasbro is actually doing a [I]fantastic job[/I] ensuring that they're a beneficial member of the various publishers of 5e. They put out the 5.1 SRD in five languages in the CC. They're committed to release the core D&D 2024 rules into the 5.2 SRD early next year. That's fantastic! It makes the whole hobby stronger. No one will forget that the designers at WOTC in 2014 put together the core of 5e and then put it out under an open license. We won't forget that they released it again under the Creative Commons license in 2023. But that doesn't mean we have to say 5e = D&D unless we [I]want[/I] to say that. Why would we? [/QUOTE]

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