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<blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 6663553" data-attributes="member: 37579">Right, and that's unavoidable. No edition is going to have a 100% conversion rate, so any edition change will have some losses. But this time there was feedback from the community driving the change, so the number of disenfranchised fans should be less. By design it tried to minimize the number of people lost by the conversion and maximize returning players.&nbsp;As for those fans who don't like 5e as it is... it's a shame there's not some way for people to release books modifying the game to be more to their liking...I don't think the response of &quot;don't publish fan content&quot; is adequate. Especially for an edition of the game designed around customization and house brewing. Sharing fan content on the web started incredibly early in the web's lifetime. I remember looking for netbooks back in the mid-90s. Right now WotC seems okay with fan content. Or at least unconcerned. The current attitude by the current management seems to be to ignore this stuff. But that could change. I'm also being somewhat safe-ish, by staying away from non-SRD terms and not formatting things as PDFs that might infringe on trade dress. But other fans might not be as careful. Now, if WotC decides not to release a commercial OGL that sucks. But it's understandable. But they should at least do a community use policy. <a href="http://paizo.com/paizo/about/communityuse" target="_blank">Here's Paizo's</a>. This is the fan policy that lets people do stuff with their IP provided it is free. Such as mention the Forgotten Realms or Drizzt or mention Mind Flayers in their homebrew world. There's a fan site kit currently available but it completely fails at this purpose.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jester David, post: 6663553, member: 37579"] Right, and that's unavoidable. No edition is going to have a 100% conversion rate, so any edition change will have some losses. But this time there was feedback from the community driving the change, so the number of disenfranchised fans should be less. By design it tried to minimize the number of people lost by the conversion and maximize returning players. As for those fans who don't like 5e as it is... it's a shame there's not some way for people to release books modifying the game to be more to their liking... I don't think the response of "don't publish fan content" is adequate. Especially for an edition of the game designed around customization and house brewing. Sharing fan content on the web started incredibly early in the web's lifetime. I remember looking for netbooks back in the mid-90s. Right now WotC seems okay with fan content. Or at least unconcerned. The current attitude by the current management seems to be to ignore this stuff. But that could change. I'm also being somewhat safe-ish, by staying away from non-SRD terms and not formatting things as PDFs that might infringe on trade dress. But other fans might not be as careful. Now, if WotC decides not to release a commercial OGL that sucks. But it's understandable. But they should at least do a community use policy. [URL="http://paizo.com/paizo/about/communityuse"]Here's Paizo's[/URL]. This is the fan policy that lets people do stuff with their IP provided it is free. Such as mention the Forgotten Realms or Drizzt or mention Mind Flayers in their homebrew world. There's a fan site kit currently available but it completely fails at this purpose. [/QUOTE]

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