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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 6665892" data-attributes="member: 7006">It's not a new OGL, it's a 5E SRD.As far as Paizo taking the lead "shepherding" new talent... so what?  Why should that be a concern?  To WotC or anyone else?  If that's what Paizo has become and continues to be, then good for them!  If new writers feel trying to release Pathfinder products is the safest bet due to the PF SRD, then they can go right ahead and learn the trade that way.The only reason why a new writer wouldn't want to do that would be if they felt they wouldn't actually make much money that way, and wanted to release 5E products because that's the "new big thing" most likely to generate revenue.  But it's not WotC's job to create revenue for people outside their company.  And if a 5E SRD would allow people outside the company to take the statblocks and data WotC's already created and put them directly into their products (thereby not requiring a person to actually need a 5E PH or MM at the table to play the product they made), then what urge does WotC have to release an SRD?Right now things seem to be in a place WotC probably prefers.  Because there's no 5E SRD, there's no major infux of 5E product watering everything down, and instead it's a lighter trickle.  There's still a large playground of additional material still to be mined from the 5E game that WotC can create for themselves (while a few other companies produce additional products too using 3E and PF terms for 5E material, thereby giving those fans who want more "stuff" the chance to get it).The only thing lost by not having a 5E SRD is every Tom, Dick, and Harry trying to make money off the back of WotC.  But I would not think they'd consider that a big loss.</blockquote>

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