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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 8900337" data-attributes="member: 19857">This is technically correct but practically false. The reason why Wizards released a stripped down 5e SRD was because they needed to rebuild goodwill with the ttrpg community as a whole - players and companies - because 5e was released by a skeleton crew on the backs of a marketing disaster of epic proportions where Wizards had tried to bigfoot everyone out of producing OGL content through the use of 4e and their GSL restrictions with an arrogance that had previously only been matched by T$R in the time before they went bankrupt. They NEEDED other companies to produce content for their game because they weren't going to be able to do it themselves and had no plans at the time to try to do it for themselves.And once again, a decade later, they're recapitulating almost the same mistakes they made that led to them deciding they needed to OGL 5e in the first place to get goodwill back. Just like the original OGL was done to garner goodwill with the D&D community after T$R's arrogance towards the players and other companies alienated them. Executives who don't understand the market keep screwing up in the same way every decade or so and if they'd just spend enough time to understand what the ttrpg market actually is and what D&D's place in it actually is maybe, just maybe, they'd figure it out and not do stuff like this.</blockquote>