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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8898545" data-attributes="member: 18">Obviously huh? From this it sounds like the 3E OA was worse than the 1E. I'll have to look it up some time, wow.I haven't to admit I wasn't aware of much kerfuffle at the time.What does that mean in this context, like the rules or the approach? Presumably the rules?That won't happen any time soon but I expect that during 1D&D they'll essentially make the books irrelevant by updating 1D&D's rules often enough that the books get out of date/sync in the way they so extremely carefully avoided in 5E.On the flipside I expect 1D&D's books to be more expensive-looking (and probably price-wise but I actually agree with your long-ago position that they can excuse increasing the price by $10 or so), and just generally more attractive because their role is as much conversation-starter and lifestyle identifier as usuable game book (nothing entirely wrong with that of course).I appreciate the straightforward acknowledgement that there are limits, and some of yours sound like they may be closer in than mine in some regards. Massive rules-changes wouldn't have made me drop D&D. Also, I think you started with 3E right? So you haven't had to see how bad it was in the '90s before the OGL (I literally know someone IRL who got a C&D from TSR). Even if no-one signs the OGL 1.1./2.0, legal advice is so much better now I think people will manage to support 1D&D without a licence.But you pointed out the real solution to all this a while back - just let people sign a licence to get on Beyond! It can be as restrictive as you like! Issue a statement saying "Unless you do this, we disavow you" and give those people who a sign a nice official-looking logo. Take 30% of the sales! Everyone's a winner!I think this is part of why I'm SO annoyed about this.It's such an easy problem to solve, and WotC turned into a huge mess, just totally unnecessarily. Like the 25% cut, turns out they didn't even care. So why insist on it?! Why not be reasonable in the first place?Arrrghghhh</blockquote>

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