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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CapnZapp" data-source="post: 8893874" data-attributes="member: 12731">Assume all of this is settled long before any court gets a say in the matter. By "settled" I mean that in a year's time everybody whose trust in WotC is gone will have left the OGL permanently. Some will even create games that directly compete against D&D One - that is, games that offer similar themes and "texture" as D&D. The legalities of OGL won't matter - by then it's all inconsequential.And that's without saying how improbable a court decision that clearly states "y'all can play in WotCs garden for free" would be. At the absolute minimum WotC would then take steps to make that victory meaningless, but we're already stretching as is.And the bigger point is that the trust is what built the community, not any legal counsel. Now that trust is gone, and that's all there's to it.Your second sentence seems to get it, but there's still an awful lot of focus (from others) on whether this thing can be saved. Newsflash: it's already unsavable.PS. A general thanks to the hordes of people who have thanked my various posts (in various threads)! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> My total thanks value must have doubled or more in a week compared to decades of being an EN World member... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f635.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt="o_O" title="Er... what?    o_O"  data-smilie="12"data-shortname="o_O" /></blockquote>

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