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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ibrandul" data-source="post: 8891512" data-attributes="member: 6871736">Snarf (correctly, I think) wrote that Hasbro never wanted the OGL.It's clear that WotC wanted it, at least at first. Dancey wasn't some anarchist intent on sabotaging the company's business model. The OGL was a business decision, and it achieved its intended effect—at least in the short term, at the beginning of 3e.It did what it was supposed to, again at least in the short term—that is, WotC benefited from it in the way they expected to—when they used it again for 5e. It went a long way toward assuring the game's near-total market dominance at a time when that was in question. How long is up for debate; what's not debatable is that WotC benefited.And so, now that the the game is dominant again, just like at the end of the 3.5 era, it was never really reasonable to expect that they would issue a 6e SRD under the OGL. Because they don't need the benefit at the moment. Yet OGL 1.1 goes far beyond that, by destroying open gaming entirely, in a way that OGL 1.0 was (faultily) drafted with the intention of disallowing.Maybe Opening Arguments will prove me wrong on Friday—and I intend to try to put aside my prejudices and listen to their argument...er, openly—but it sure seems to me they don't understand any of this. And when anyone (not me, I haven't interacted with them) tries to explain, they're unconscionably rude and dismissive.As I pointed out in a different thread here, at the end of the article the journalist does indeed take one piece of quoted material totally out of context. That's very bad form, and to be honest it's hard not to see it as a deliberate misrepresentation. But that's a relatively minor part of the article, and it's not one I've seen anyone, anywhere, focusing on. I can find nothing else in the article that isn't verified by the now-available leaked document.I'm on your side, Ruin Explorer, but the last thing we need right now is edition warring about law schools!</blockquote>

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