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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 8916528">This is what has really given me pause through the whole thing. People were utterly disbelieving this was even possible when the rumors started, and even when the leak happened folks were convinced the leak was fake both because the language in the leak was a little odd due to the comments included in them (as well as some strange grammatical and punctuation choices) and because the idea that it was even possible to deauthorize the OGL seemed ludicrous. But we came to see that WOTC was dead set on deauthorizing the OGL and that the leak was genuine. I think we do really need to open our imaginations to worst case scenarios. This is a huge corporation with resources no one else in the industry comes close to. And while their PR efforts initially failed spectacularly, with each attempt they appear to be finding better and better footing (they still are facing a lot of opposition but I am also seeing plenty of people who have bought into their PR over this). I will say something like this happened before: TSR went under, we didn't know if D&D was even going to be a thing. Then WOTC resurrected it, but it was very much a reboot of the brand. D&D is synonymous with fantasy RPGs, it isn't inconceivable that after this, though they likely won't be using the D&D name because that belongs to Hasbro now, a company with deeper roots in the actual hobby will be able to position an RPG to replace D&D and eventually that could become synonymous with fantasy table top roleplaying. All Hasbro really has is a name. They also have a system, but alternative systems that achieve all the same basic things, maybe even do it better than D&D, are possible and won't impinge on D&D's IP.</blockquote>

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