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<blockquote data-quote="Cadence" data-source="post: 9346813" data-attributes="member: 6701124">The Dancey interview about the OGL in the new &quot;Fifty Years of Dungeons &amp; Dragons&quot; (MIT Press) makes the point that he believed the biggest competitor they had (when planning 3rd edition) was previous editions of D&amp;D.&nbsp; And that second edition struggled in part because it didn't get as many 1e players as they wanted.&nbsp; Part of the goal of the OGL was to let non-WotC companies make the 3e things that would be needed to make the 1e and 2e players feel at home.&nbsp;&nbsp; The GSL obviously didn't do that heavy lifting to port over 3e players (who then had Pathfinder to go to).&nbsp; &nbsp; He writes &quot;I believe that the success of Pathfinder and the failure of fourth edition both informa a lot of the decisions they made for fifth edition.&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp; This interview was in 2021. I wonder how much of this sentiment was made known to those who tried to yank the OGL in 2023.&nbsp; It feels like now, anyway, they are still trying to at least hand-wave at the players of past editions -- so maybe they feel we're at least a bit important.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cadence, post: 9346813, member: 6701124"] The Dancey interview about the OGL in the new "Fifty Years of Dungeons & Dragons" (MIT Press) makes the point that he believed the biggest competitor they had (when planning 3rd edition) was previous editions of D&D. And that second edition struggled in part because it didn't get as many 1e players as they wanted. Part of the goal of the OGL was to let non-WotC companies make the 3e things that would be needed to make the 1e and 2e players feel at home. The GSL obviously didn't do that heavy lifting to port over 3e players (who then had Pathfinder to go to). He writes "I believe that the success of Pathfinder and the failure of fourth edition both informa a lot of the decisions they made for fifth edition." This interview was in 2021. I wonder how much of this sentiment was made known to those who tried to yank the OGL in 2023. It feels like now, anyway, they are still trying to at least hand-wave at the players of past editions -- so maybe they feel we're at least a bit important. [/QUOTE]

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