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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Benjamin Olson" data-source="post: 8896444" data-attributes="member: 6988941">5e was a "Newbie Boom". A huge number of people were brought into the hobby or back into the hobby with 5e (partly for extraneous reasons, but it is a good compromise system for a broad group of people), and eventually some were going to "grow up" into people who designed games. We are now getting to the point when a sizeable chunk of them would probably naturally evolve as gamers to seriously trying their hands at their own game design. And really I already felt like the anemic "improvements" of the proposals for 5.5 were likely to spur an unusually large number of 5e fans to think "well they're just making semi-aimless tweaks. I could do that! Why am I buying their books?"So I think there was a bumper crop of new games destined to come in the not too distant future even before all this OGL revocation nonsense. But now that it has happened we also will get all sorts of people who have been designing for D&D working on their own games instead, and many of the "soon to become game designers" of the unusually large 5e generation who would have moved into designing for the next iteration of D&D will also do their own things instead.Which is all to say I think there is a renaissance era for new table top games on the horizon. It was destined to be before the OGL debacle, but now it will be much more extensive, and the chances of a few of the games picking up critical mass and actually being successful is much higher now that there will be both an exodus of refugee D&D players looking for a new home and more third party developers interested in creating content for games not made by WotC.Currently the name I'm toying with for a D&D knockoff is Freedoms and Dangers, shortened to "Free&D". As you might imagine it'd be open source.</blockquote>

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