Man in the Funny Hat
Hero
Oh 5E is not going away by any stretch, but what they accomplished with the OGL fiasco is to take those competitors in the D&D publishing biz who were previously content to just ride the coattails and give MANY of them a purpose and a passion to blow WotC right out of the water with NON-D&D-dependent systems. I wouldn't put a huge stock in the popularity of D&D Beyond right now either. People were flocking to cancel those subscriptions. They're NOT going to just rush back singing kumbayah. One of the best things that Paizo could probably do for themselves right now (aside from the ORC license), is serious work on a website directly competing with Beyond, including full incorporation into a VTT. Had Wizards let the OGL be they could have likely built up Beyond and a VTT at their own pace because nobody FELT like they were going to need to compete. In just a few weeks they were shown that a higher level of competition was going to be needed and given motivation to BE that fully-engaged competition.
Or, maybe everyone will just calm down like WotC would prefer, so they can re-engage their "Dominate and destroy by any means necessary," approach, rather than, "We'll just make stuff that people like better, or that they can't afford to do."
Or, maybe everyone will just calm down like WotC would prefer, so they can re-engage their "Dominate and destroy by any means necessary," approach, rather than, "We'll just make stuff that people like better, or that they can't afford to do."