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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nellisir" data-source="post: 6564473" data-attributes="member: 70">I'd bet that the Basic Rules will be gradually added to.Unless the license specifies that you can't create a class with a name identical to an existing class - which I see as a very improbable restriction - people will just "create" a class identical to the non-Basic class, and then build a splatbook around it. I'm guessing 3 weeks or less after a license is released to the first warlock splatbook. Or maybe sorcerer. One of those two.An SRD is just a thing. They had an SRD for 4e. They _could_ make an SRD for a 5e license, but I think it's unlikely.SO. Here's what I think will happen.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The license will allow use of the Basic Rules and terms. I don't remember how much flavor text is in there, but that will be cut off by the license or removed;</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">It will not be the OGL;</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">There will be no SRD apart from the Basic Rules;</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">There will be occasional additions to the Basic Rules, OR free supplements, like the Elemental Adventurer's Handbook, will occasionally be added to the license.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">It's possible that we'll only have access to the Basic Rules as they stand now, but I think that's unlikely. I'm not sure how they'll balance the desire to add "core" stuff like the sorcerer or warlock to the license without weakening the Basic Rules as ... "basic". Maybe it will be just the Basic stuff. Honestly, the more I think about it, the more I like that option.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">There will be some kind of "stuff you make with our stuff must be open for other people to make stuff with" requirement. There's no downside to WotC requiring this, and it fosters the community and exchange of creativity that's the core assumption of open licenses.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">They're going to be tight with the labeling and indicating compatibility stuff. Hell, they might have required wording you'll need to put on the cover;</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">There will be no expiration date, but WotC will be able to revise or end the license at will;</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">You will have to use the version current at the time of your release, but you don't have to update it every time they change the license;</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">THE BIG QUESTION: Will the 5e license work with the OGL? They could easily put a clause in the 5e license forbidding its use in the same product as the OGL. Doing so helps WotC prevent cross-contamination between the two licenses. Not doing so encourages people to use the 5e license. Frog Gods is already proving you can make a 5e-compatible product with the OGL and without a 5e license, so the benefit would seem to lean towards carrots rather than sticks (no restriction).</li> </ul></blockquote>

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