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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nellisir" data-source="post: 6306550" data-attributes="member: 70">I'm iffier on those two requirements.  We're not going to see a wide-open OGL again. I will be amazingly ecstatic if we do, and I'll do cartwheels if they go back to the straight-up OGL, but no. So what's WotC's goal with Basic?<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">It's the gateway to the heavier stuff. As such, there should be a clear path from it to the hardcovers</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">It's the spine of the D&D system. As such, it needs to be static.</li> </ul>So license-wise, they want to control distribution and presentation of Basic, and keep it in one form. No d20srd websites, no BASIK knock-offs that add in tieflings and forgelings. They don't need a SRD document, or whatever the GSL monstrosity was called - the Basic PDF fills that role. So I don't think material from PDF is going to be copyable like it was under the OGL.Q - What's the difference between a class splat book and an adventure that includes a new player class?A - None that I can think of. So IF they want to disallow splat books (and maybe they don't), there will be some kind of restrictions on what kind of content you can create. I can't think of how that'll be spelled out at the moment.The sunset provision makes sense if 3rd-party publishers have to refer to the PDF. If D&D goes to a 6th edition, what happens to the PDF? If it gets updated, WotC won't want publishers to keep referring to an older version that's not longer supported (or even available).I think it'll be pretty simple to run a 5e-branded product of some kind side-by-side with an OGL product that supplies the stuff that can't be done under a 5e license (most of the vocabulary in 5e is completely generic, unlike 4e) , but that's still two products instead of one.Right now I think it's equally likely that WotC won't do a public license at all. They won't even make it an issue. I don't think there will be a rush to make a clone 5e on a large scale (ie Pathfinder), and the little retroclone stuff won't even register. Honestly, an OGL 5e clone is going to appear in a year or two at most anyway (more likely 6 months).   And they can always chose to do a license in the future (might be a good way to drum up interest in a few years, once the system has proven stable).</blockquote>

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