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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 6674275" data-attributes="member: 7006">Actually, I don't care or mind the OGL.  I'm fine with it.  And I acknowledge absolutely 5E is the most popular game so I can certainly understand people wanting to write up rules for it.  Coming up with new adventures, new classes, new races, new core concepts all working with 5E... I definitely understand the appeal, and I've done it myself for a PC in my home game.But... you don't need 5E to be Open to do that.  Because we have all manner of people who are doing this very thing and posting all of it to our House Rules and Homebrews forum here on EN World (as well as other message boards, blogs, and websites.)  WotC seems fine with all of that until the cows come home.  It's only if you wished to get paid for your writing that you'd want/need 5E to be Open without needing to check with an attorney first or just roll the dice by releasing it via the 3E SRD.  And that's my point.  WotC is slowing those people down so that the market doesn't get flooded with a lot of material that might not be of the highest quality because they aren't established designers who already know the ins-and-outs of the OGL process and the legality of how 5E relates.Is it rude to point out that out?  That the people who want 5E Open want it so that they can actually sell the stuff they create?  I don't think so.  Because it's true.  If it wasn't true, everyone would just be posting all the stuff they wrote for free and the topic of an Open 5E would never come up.</blockquote>

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