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<blockquote data-quote="Michael Morris" data-source="post: 6682885" data-attributes="member: 87">I find this limbo situation to be... odd.&nbsp; I would have thought to learn something new by now.Unlike 4e, which broke sacred cows with the delightful abandon of a 2 year old, 5e is relatively close to its ancestry, allowing adventures to be produced with a reasonable amount of security under the 3e OGL.&nbsp; But it's still no doubt very uncomfortable compared to the license.Personally, I blame Mongoose and their Pocket PHB for this. Printing the whole SRD out verbatim poisoned the waters and likely soured Hasbro on the OGL long before 4e came around.&nbsp; While it's true Pathfinder is somewhat the same - at least it upgrades the game some and has some originality, that and Paizo was backed into a corner and forced to either make it or close their doors (In other words, WotC made their largest competitor inadvertently). The only thing original about the pocket PHB was the 8 point font size.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Michael Morris, post: 6682885, member: 87"] I find this limbo situation to be... odd. I would have thought to learn something new by now. Unlike 4e, which broke sacred cows with the delightful abandon of a 2 year old, 5e is relatively close to its ancestry, allowing adventures to be produced with a reasonable amount of security under the 3e OGL. But it's still no doubt very uncomfortable compared to the license. Personally, I blame Mongoose and their Pocket PHB for this. Printing the whole SRD out verbatim poisoned the waters and likely soured Hasbro on the OGL long before 4e came around. While it's true Pathfinder is somewhat the same - at least it upgrades the game some and has some originality, that and Paizo was backed into a corner and forced to either make it or close their doors (In other words, WotC made their largest competitor inadvertently). The only thing original about the pocket PHB was the 8 point font size. [/QUOTE]

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