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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 6290100" data-attributes="member: 2067">So no official word. And I would like to know what publishers have let it slip! All I have on that are rumors so far. The Gale Force 9 stuff seems like physical items...so hard to say if that's a license to make some products, or a true OGL-ish phenomenon. But at least an openness to have other folks sell stuff with rules on it! I'd be excited for a 5e OGL. I know I am always kind of amazed at how Ryan Dancey freakin' called pretty much what happened with Pathfinder and 4e before 3e was even done. The whole &quot;They'll have to make it very different. A lot of people will reject it as 'not D&amp;D' because it will be very different. Those people will go to a third party publisher who will become the steward of the OGL-ified rules.&quot; prediction was spot-the-frig-on. And his hypothesis of network externalities benefiting the industry leader seems to have been borne out. But on the other hand, change is always hard and traditional models are safe and tenacious. It'll be interesting to see. I hope they go OGL. I'd be delighted.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 6290100, member: 2067"] So no official word. And I would like to know what publishers have let it slip! All I have on that are rumors so far. The Gale Force 9 stuff seems like physical items...so hard to say if that's a license to make some products, or a true OGL-ish phenomenon. But at least an openness to have other folks sell stuff with rules on it! I'd be excited for a 5e OGL. I know I am always kind of amazed at how Ryan Dancey [I]freakin' called[/I] pretty much what happened with Pathfinder and 4e before 3e was even done. The whole "They'll have to make it very different. A lot of people will reject it as 'not D&D' because it will be very different. Those people will go to a third party publisher who will become the steward of the OGL-ified rules." prediction was spot-the-frig-on. And his hypothesis of network externalities benefiting the industry leader seems to have been borne out. But on the other hand, change is always hard and traditional models are safe and tenacious. It'll be interesting to see. I hope they go OGL. I'd be delighted. [/QUOTE]

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