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<blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 8882180" data-attributes="member: 5948">They can, but they don't want to.&nbsp; It's very much a package deal for them.&nbsp; This is about WotC regaining control over, and reaping no-effort revenue from, the 3pp sector (as one would expect from a Hasbro executive team packed with Microsoft and Amazon alumni, abuse of market power is the first tool pulled out of the toolbox).&nbsp; They can certainly do that for 5.5 by creating a new licence with the sort of conditions that are being leaked about 1.1 - but unless the creation of the new licence is accompanied by revocation of the old one, it's a very risky move for them.&nbsp; The last thing they want to do is open the door to whoever wants create another Pathfinder, based off the 5e rulebase, licenced under OGL&nbsp; 1.0a.&nbsp; If there's a 5finder ruleset (to coin a phrase) floating around under the OGL 1.0a, then it'd be a rare 3pp publisher who voluntarily decides to adhere to all the strictures of OGL 1.1 and pay WotC a chunk of their earnings should they dare to become too successful, when they can simply go with 5finder and ... not have to do any of that.&nbsp; WotC have already stated that 5.5 will be back-compatible with their 5e supplements, so it logically follows that new 5e/5finder supplements will also be compatible with 5.5e, even if the publishers may not be able to explicitly refer to that fact. Mind you, even if any of this happens it's unlikely to affect the success or failure of 5.5 very much one way or another unless one of the REALLY big dogs in the 3pp industry (Critical Role may possibly be the only people with that sort of heft) jump onboard 5finder, but WotC will be very keen to avoid the possibility anyway.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="humble minion, post: 8882180, member: 5948"] They can, but they don't want to. It's very much a package deal for them. This is about WotC regaining control over, and reaping no-effort revenue from, the 3pp sector (as one would expect from a Hasbro executive team packed with Microsoft and Amazon alumni, abuse of market power is the first tool pulled out of the toolbox). They can certainly do that for 5.5 by creating a new licence with the sort of conditions that are being leaked about 1.1 - but unless the creation of the new licence is accompanied by revocation of the old one, it's a very risky move for them. The last thing they want to do is open the door to whoever wants create another Pathfinder, based off the 5e rulebase, licenced under OGL 1.0a. If there's a 5finder ruleset (to coin a phrase) floating around under the OGL 1.0a, then it'd be a rare 3pp publisher who voluntarily decides to adhere to all the strictures of OGL 1.1 and pay WotC a chunk of their earnings should they dare to become too successful, when they can simply go with 5finder and ... not have to do any of that. WotC have already stated that 5.5 will be back-compatible with their 5e supplements, so it logically follows that new 5e/5finder supplements will also be compatible with 5.5e, even if the publishers may not be able to explicitly refer to that fact. Mind you, even if any of this happens it's unlikely to affect the success or failure of 5.5 very much one way or another unless one of the REALLY big dogs in the 3pp industry (Critical Role may possibly be the only people with that sort of heft) jump onboard 5finder, but WotC will be very keen to avoid the possibility anyway. [/QUOTE]

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