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Message: <blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 8919181" data-attributes="member: 5948">One of the hazards of living in my part of the world is that news like this gets released when I'm asleep, and by the time I'm awake there's 25 pages in the thread already.Well, it's certainly good news.  And despite people's understandable skepticism, I think the backlash will act as a chilling effect on any future WotC attempts to backstab the concept of open gaming - at least for another decade or so until 2 new generations of execs have come and gone, the institutional memory of this whole blundersaurus is lost, and the new MBA-brandishing cleverclogs in charge has a bright idea...So, things are better than yesterday.  A few things I'll be watching:- Whether 5.5 ends up under CC/OGL 1.0a or both.  Honestly, I think it will be.  I suspect we'll see a period of walking on eggshells from WotC now.  They've been burnt, and they won't want to do anything that'd cause all this to blow up again.  An analogy would be how 5e wound back pretty much all the 4e changes to the Forgotten Realms because WotC knew how badly they blundered there.  - Within the next couple of months, I expect to see some high-level staff changes at WotC or Hasbro.  No reasons will be given (nor need they be, to be fair), but someone's big strategic plan just resulted in absolute carnage and PR nightmares and had to be publicly torn up and thrown away.  A star is in the decline in upper management right now, and I wouldn't expect that person/persons to hang around.- What happens to all the 3pp house systems that have been announced in the past month?  Some I'm sure will go ahead, and PF certainly got a hell of a boost out of the whole thing, but a lot of the rug just got pulled from under the feet of projects like Black Flag that were pretty clearly going to be someone's 5e houserules.- I'll be keeping a close eye on Kickstarter.  A bunch of projects there were frightened off 5e and went systemless or Pathfinder in the past few weeks, and in general the pipeline of 5e projects there dried up due to uncertainty.  Will the creator base return?  Will the customer/backer base return?  How much damage has been done to the brand, and how many people in either of those camps have legit been alienated to the point of moving to other systems?</blockquote>

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