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<blockquote data-quote="dmccoy1693" data-source="post: 8757684" data-attributes="member: 51747">Ok, dude. I'm a publisher that has been working with the OGL for 13 years. I know the OGL backwards and forwards. On top of that, I'm a legal professional. So I do understand the nuances of the license rather well. I also understand that the general public doesn't understand much of this, nor do they need to. So I write less jargon-heavy blog/forum posts that more people would understand, and those in the know would easily understand what I'm talking about. Which you obviously did, so kudos to you for being on the inside.And to demonstrate that I do know what I am talking about, <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/149098/Deadly-Delves-Rescue-from-Tyrkaven-5e?affiliate_id=231528&amp;src=ENWorld" target="_blank">here is a link to one of the first—if not the first, 5e compatible product on the market</a>. It was released 7 months before the 5e SRD was released. I wrote it. I published it. I used existing OGL material out there to create it. I know how to work the OGL.I said nothing about &quot;shutting down the OGL market.&quot; I've watched Wizards for close to 20 years, and I can honestly say that they don't care about any publishers other than themselves in any competition type of sense anyways. They have no interest in shutting down the OGL market. Doing so would be unnecessary work on their part that would see little in the way of profits and harm in terms of goodwill that customers have towards them. They themselves are 60+% of the market. They don't need to cater to the rest.They will put out new open content when they want to, be that 5 days after launch or 5 years, or not at all. My money is on &quot;not at all&quot; this time around.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="dmccoy1693, post: 8757684, member: 51747"] Ok, dude. I'm a publisher that has been working with the OGL for 13 years. I know the OGL backwards and forwards. On top of that, I'm a legal professional. So I do understand the nuances of the license rather well. I also understand that the general public doesn't understand much of this, nor do they need to. So I write less jargon-heavy blog/forum posts that more people would understand, and those in the know would easily understand what I'm talking about. Which you obviously did, so kudos to you for being on the inside. And to demonstrate that I do know what I am talking about, [URL='https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/149098/Deadly-Delves-Rescue-from-Tyrkaven-5e?affiliate_id=231528&src=ENWorld'][B]here is a link to one of the first—if not [I]the[/I] first, 5e compatible product on the market[/B][/URL]. It was released 7 months before the 5e SRD was released. I wrote it. I published it. I used existing OGL material out there to create it. I know how to work the OGL. I said nothing about "shutting down the OGL market." I've watched Wizards for close to 20 years, and I can honestly say that they don't care about any publishers other than themselves in any competition type of sense anyways. They have no interest in shutting down the OGL market. Doing so would be unnecessary work on their part that would see little in the way of profits and harm in terms of goodwill that customers have towards them. They themselves are 60+% of the market. They don't need to cater to the rest. They will put out new open content when they want to, be that 5 days after launch or 5 years, or not at all. My money is on "not at all" this time around. [/QUOTE]

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