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<blockquote data-quote="Obryn" data-source="post: 6027446" data-attributes="member: 11821">I'm not edition warring - I'm disputing your interpretation of the facts. I don't think I've said anything inflammatory (or even uncomplimentary?) about any editions here...?My argument re: the OGL is that while 4e might have driven away some players, it didn't actually create a competitor.&nbsp; The most it could create would be a market for one.&nbsp; With no OGL, I can't imagine a majority of all the folks who really wanted to stick with 3.5 uniting behind a single non-3.5 game.&nbsp; Because of the OGL, that competitor really was 3.5 itself.Whether or not 4e drove more players away than it attracted is only one ingredient.&nbsp; The OGL is what allowed for the previous edition of D&amp;D to directly compete against the new one.&nbsp; So if your list of &quot;bad business decisions&quot; by WotC includes, &quot;created a competitor for D&amp;D&quot; then you're throwing the OGL into that &quot;bad decision&quot; bucket.In fact, given the OGL, I can't imagine a scenario where WotC wouldn't have been competing against itself when a new version was released.-O</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Obryn, post: 6027446, member: 11821"] I'm not edition warring - I'm disputing your interpretation of the facts. I don't think I've said anything inflammatory (or even uncomplimentary?) about any editions here...? My argument re: the OGL is that while 4e might have driven away some players, it didn't actually [I]create[/I] a competitor. The most it could create would be a [I]market[/I] for one. With no OGL, I can't imagine a majority of all the folks who [I]really [/I]wanted to stick with 3.5 uniting behind a single non-3.5 game. Because of the OGL, that competitor really [I]was [/I]3.5 itself. Whether or not 4e drove more players away than it attracted is only one ingredient. The OGL is what allowed for the previous edition of D&D to [I]directly[/I] compete against the new one. So if your list of "bad business decisions" by WotC includes, "created a competitor for D&D" then you're throwing the OGL into that "bad decision" bucket. In fact, given the OGL, I can't imagine a scenario where WotC [I]wouldn't[/I] have been competing against itself when a new version was released. -O [/QUOTE]

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