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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 6689082" data-attributes="member: 2067">Ehhhh......while the OGL might've had some influence on 3e's boom and 4e's bust, I can't imagine it was that direct. The influence might've been more about tone-setting than anything else: the OGL signified a WotC who wanted to encourage fans to go the extra mile with their work supporting the game - the most hardcore fans are happy, so they're going to be evangelists. 4e's GSL, when it eventually hit, was very much more about supporting the 4e D&D that WotC was publishing (bits like "you can't redefine elf"). Hardcore fans (like Paizo!) now have reason to do other things, so they evangelize other things. In that model, 5e's big tent design might already be doing much of the work that the 3e OGL did. It matters to me in that I want a diverse ecosystem of quality work to choose from for my D&D games. It could matter to WotC for reasons I tossed out a long time ago (reasons that aren't directly concerned with book sales). It doesn't need to affect the fortunes of Hasbro significantly for it to actually matter.</blockquote>