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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 6627329" data-attributes="member: 2067">Another plausible hypothetical: if there had been no OGL, the people who now play Pathfinder would've just left tabletop gaming entirely (going to videogames or whatnot), and when 4e's sales began to slump they would look around and see no major competitors and the bean-counters would determine that tabletop gaming is a relic of the '80's that nobody really does anymore and instead of 5e D&amp;D, we'd be looking at the tabletop game being shelved entirely and the brand simply limping along as a valuable IP for computer games and books and maybe movies someday. The very fact that we can play a 5e D&amp;D with our friends around a table may be due to the fact that even as 4e slumped, the bean-counters could look around and see a healthy tabletop ecosystem that they could still make some bank in as part of a broader strategy. If we're gonna talk hypotheticals, the OGL, plausibly, saved tabletop gaming. Instead of some aggressive Paizo fan gettin' up in your grill, you might've instead had to face a sea of emptiness, where no one under the age of 40 remained, where nothing new was released, where people just didn't play this kind of game anymore. I'd take the former.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 6627329, member: 2067"] Another plausible hypothetical: if there had been no OGL, the people who now play Pathfinder would've just left tabletop gaming entirely (going to videogames or whatnot), and when 4e's sales began to slump they would look around and see no major competitors and the bean-counters would determine that tabletop gaming is a relic of the '80's that nobody really does anymore and instead of 5e D&D, we'd be looking at the tabletop game being shelved entirely and the brand simply limping along as a valuable IP for computer games and books and maybe movies someday. The very fact that we can play a 5e D&D with our friends around a table may be due to the fact that even as 4e slumped, the bean-counters could look around and see a healthy tabletop ecosystem that they could still make some bank in as part of a broader strategy. If we're gonna talk hypotheticals, the OGL, plausibly, [I]saved tabletop gaming[/I]. Instead of some aggressive Paizo fan gettin' up in your grill, you might've instead had to face a sea of emptiness, where no one under the age of 40 remained, where nothing new was released, where people just didn't play this kind of game anymore. I'd take the former. [/QUOTE]

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