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<blockquote data-quote="Immortal Sun" data-source="post: 7549275">I basically agree with what has been said.&nbsp; The OGL provides a framework for people to make &quot;D&amp;D, but with lasers&quot; that fundamentally doesn't change anything, and doesn't make it so they have to re-invent the d20.&nbsp; BUT, I think some publishers (I'm looking at you Paizo) took the leniency granted by the OGL too far, into making &quot;It's D&amp;D, but painted blue.&quot;4E was horribly, horribly the wrong approach to abandon it entirely, since one of the strongest elements of support for D&amp;D has always come from 3rd-party content creators who love the system, and want to create additional material for it, but typically small additional material, a single class, a couple monsters, a few races, stuff like that.I think 5E has indeed found a sweet spot between &quot;Giving away the game&quot; and &quot;nothing at all&quot; while simultaneously circling the wagons by drawing in content creators to the DM's Guild, creating a clearly open space for creators while that space sill also clearly being under WOTC's watchful eye.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Immortal Sun, post: 7549275"] I basically agree with what has been said. The OGL provides a framework for people to make "D&D, but with lasers" that fundamentally doesn't change anything, and doesn't make it so they have to re-invent the d20. BUT, I think some publishers (I'm looking at you Paizo) took the leniency granted by the OGL too far, into making "It's D&D, but painted blue." 4E was horribly, horribly the wrong approach to abandon it entirely, since one of the strongest elements of support for D&D has always come from 3rd-party content creators who love the system, and want to create additional material for it, but typically [I]small[/I] additional material, a single class, a couple monsters, a few races, stuff like that. I think 5E has indeed found a sweet spot between "Giving away the game" and "nothing at all" while simultaneously circling the wagons by drawing in content creators to the DM's Guild, creating a clearly open space for creators while that space sill also clearly being under WOTC's watchful eye. [/QUOTE]

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