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<blockquote data-quote="tuxgeo" data-source="post: 6307297" data-attributes="member: 61026">My take on the OGL: WotC was founded by people who loved D&amp;D. Although their first big success was &quot;Magic: the Gathering,&quot; they were appalled when they learned that TSR was teetering on the brink of collapse. They wanted to ensure that the existence of D&amp;D would never again be threatened by corporate vacillations, so they released the 3.5E SRD under its OGL in order to ensure that at least one version of the game would survive in perpetuity. That has now been accomplished: so long as human civilization survives, D&amp;D 3.5E will never die -- at least in the limited version of 3.5E that is presented in the SRD. But this means that WotC doesn't need to do the same thing with 5E, because the very existence of the game (at least in the 3.5E version) is no longer endangered. Since they don't have to release 5E under an OGL in order to keep the game from disappearing, I suspect that they won't. There is no need for another OGL.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tuxgeo, post: 6307297, member: 61026"] My take on the OGL: WotC was founded by people who loved D&D. Although their first big success was "Magic: the Gathering," they were appalled when they learned that TSR was teetering on the brink of collapse. They wanted to ensure that the existence of D&D would never again be threatened by corporate vacillations, so they released the 3.5E SRD under its OGL in order to ensure that at least one version of the game would survive in perpetuity. That has now been accomplished: so long as human civilization survives, D&D 3.5E will never die -- at least in the limited version of 3.5E that is presented in the SRD. But this means that WotC doesn't need to do the same thing with 5E, because the very existence of the game (at least in the 3.5E version) is no longer endangered. Since they don't have to release 5E under an OGL in order to keep the game from disappearing, I suspect that they won't. There is no need for another OGL. [/QUOTE]

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