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<blockquote data-quote="Bedrockgames" data-source="post: 8889561" data-attributes="member: 85555"><p>But I would argue this shouldn't be happening. WOTC is doing something extremely shady, potentially not legal, if they try to end the OGL. No one had any reason to believe that would happen. So I don't think what is unfolding is evidence of the problem with d20 being prime and D&D being the most popular game, but evidence of WOTC being a bad actor and doing something no one believed was legally possible</p><p></p><p>All that said, now that we have this situation, there are tons of non D&D games people can turn to. And I see people doing so. This is disrupting things. That creates opportunities and other companies are seizing those opportunities. If people want other game systems to rise the way to do that is buy them, review them, talk about them, post about them, livestream them, etc. Just look at En World: 90 percent or more of posts are about 5E. If more people started threads on Cypher, Vortex, 13th Age, etc these games would have a lot more reach (at least within this audience). The reason I push back against 'the eco system was unhealthy' argument, isn't because I don't want that eco system, it is because what I have seen over my life is the one argument that never persuades D&D players to switch systems is "You shouldn't be playing D&D".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bedrockgames, post: 8889561, member: 85555"] But I would argue this shouldn't be happening. WOTC is doing something extremely shady, potentially not legal, if they try to end the OGL. No one had any reason to believe that would happen. So I don't think what is unfolding is evidence of the problem with d20 being prime and D&D being the most popular game, but evidence of WOTC being a bad actor and doing something no one believed was legally possible All that said, now that we have this situation, there are tons of non D&D games people can turn to. And I see people doing so. This is disrupting things. That creates opportunities and other companies are seizing those opportunities. If people want other game systems to rise the way to do that is buy them, review them, talk about them, post about them, livestream them, etc. Just look at En World: 90 percent or more of posts are about 5E. If more people started threads on Cypher, Vortex, 13th Age, etc these games would have a lot more reach (at least within this audience). The reason I push back against 'the eco system was unhealthy' argument, isn't because I don't want that eco system, it is because what I have seen over my life is the one argument that never persuades D&D players to switch systems is "You shouldn't be playing D&D". [/QUOTE]
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