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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 6206602" data-attributes="member: 2067">Totally. I think there's some good boardroom cases for going OGL -- among them the prospect of capturing the level of market saturation that during 3e, when everything had a d20 version. And that the real money is in IP and brand anyway, and a bigger audience helps cement those concepts more deeply and serves as a proving ground. But those are up against boardroom cases against it, including the fear of loss of "ownership" (which is actually a benefit, but short-term thinking wouldn't see it that way) and since businesses tend to be conservative and about the short-term solution, it's an uphill battle. I mean, really, if they want everyone to be playing some version of 5e, they should make it OGL, since then everyone probably will be playing some version of 5e. And then if they set up an OGL store that they make a little cut off of every transaction, and curate like the Apple app store? You might be looking at getting a big slice of that pie of people who might not even ever by a PHB.</blockquote>