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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 8909353" data-attributes="member: 19857">What's shocking is that it is the exact same mess and they don't seem to remember why the 5e SRD was put under an OGL in the first place.The didn't have to do it. 4e wasn't OGL. 5e didn't have to be OGL. But they did it anyway. And for very good reasons - 5e being under the OGL has benefited them greatly. Just that the benefits are indirect that involve how D&D has grown and don't come with royalty payments.D&D was king of the hill in the 90s and the company making it still went bankrupt.The surge in RPG popularity around D&D could possibly disappear overnight. People have other entertainment options. D&D could go back to being the king RPG of a very small hill.That is interesting. My kid is kind of in the same boat - they don't buy 3pp books but they do watch YouTubers who make 3pp books and they've been reading a lot of about this stuff. They're at the age where fairness is a big deal to them and they're thinking about shifting to Pathfinder just because they don't like how Hasbro has been treating people. And they had an even more cynical read on the two posts that Wizards has made to DDB than I did - in fact it was their negativity around some of the stuff in yesterday's post that made me go back and realize it wasn't quite as good a deal as I thought (oh to be 15 again and have the time to really be cynical about how adults run the world).They're not ready to pull the trigger yet - they have a lot of labor and emotional investment both in D&D at this point - but they did ask me to put a hold on buying them the Monster Manual on DDB for now (that was how they decided they wanted to spend their Christmas money right before the leak hit the news).</blockquote>

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