I dislike how this thread is bumped only to avoid "thread necromancy".
Start a new thread the next time you have something interesting about 5e OGL to say, and remove the life support from this one. Thanks
I dislike how this thread is bumped only to avoid "thread necromancy".
Start a new thread the next time you have something interesting about 5e OGL to say, and remove the life support from this one. Thanks
I disagree. I think the original plan was to announce something 90 days or so after the LAST of the core books (which would have been around March 10). But the jury duty may have delayed that by another 6 months, putting that date around September 10. We're only in May. Still four months to go. And that's assuming the OGL was that guy's highest priority and he'd resume work on it the moment he got back from jury duty, which may be a bad assumption.
I don't think WOTC is done with the idea. It was not that long ago that Mearls mentioned it on Twitter. I think it's just on the back burner.
I think at this time it's fair to say an OGL isn't happening. It's almost been a year and five months into 2015 and we haven't even gotten the "walkthrough" of the planned OGL yet. It's safe to say the OGL cannot be agreed on internally and just isn't happening.
Which is a shame, but wouldn't be so bad if the fan site policy wasn't the gaming equivalent of a human rights violation. I mean, if the Geneva Convention considered gamers to be human, the WotC Fan Site Policy would be a crime against humanity.
It feels less like they're working around a delay and more like they silently killed it and are hoping if they remain silent long enough, people will stop asking and they won't have to generate any negative publicity by announcing its cancellation.
True, but they *have* commented on projects delayed by jury duty. If both were delayed for the same reasons it'd be strange to comment on one but remain silent on the other.In WotC's defense, they've been spectacularly close-mouthed about EVERYTHING so far. I'm viewing the lack of comment as exactly that: a lack of comment.
The original OGL was released around the same time as the books and many established publishers saw it early, as demonstrated by the number of books very quickly released for 3e. The GSL was out a month after the 4e books. So the 5e licence has already taken 4x as long and still no word. Which is curious enough without WotC ceasing to mention it.July of last year when the product started to release with the DMG only six months old now. I'm not surprised that an OGL isn't out before the core books are a year old