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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 5429838" data-attributes="member: 11760">Once the SRD and OGL were out the door, forking the game was inevitable, because there would always be someone unhappy with something that happened in the future. The major changes in 4E and the trainwreck that was the GSL made the fork more dramatic, but we always would have had the OSR folks striking out in their own direction (and they did so even before 4E came along, although they've certainly picked up a lot more members of their tribe since then), along with other splinter groups.There have always been people unhappy with D&D's direction, even back to the Eldritch Wizardry days, when the later supplements ruined the game for some players. Unless a new version came with a hypno-toad in every box, it stands little chance of pleasing 90 percent of the total D&D audience, no matter how amazing said new version might be.</blockquote>