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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Matt Thomason" data-source="post: 8919314" data-attributes="member: 6777331">It's a "successful defence".  It's not a guarantee the dragon will not decide to attack again in a few years.The reason I don't want to call it "victory" is that we have not secured OGL 1.0(a), we've just stopped this attack on it.  IMO, actually securing OGL 1.0(a) is unlikely to happen.  Your analogy misses that only WotC's SRD 5.1 is secure, it's still possible to pull down the entire house of cards of 23 years worth of 3PP work by destroying the OGL foundation stone at the bottom of it all.I do not want the dragon dead.  What I do want is to make sure the village doesn't assume it's all over and we can stop worrying.  The biggest lesson learned from this is not about defeating dragons, it's that there was a single unstable keystone in the wall that the dragon was able to attack in the first place.  The important thing from my own perspective is not to leave my livelihood reliant on the continued existence of the OGL, now it has been proven that it is such a risk..So, okay, if you prefer - we can say we had a victory in this specific dragon attack.  It even dropped a bit of gold by accident when fleeing.  But we still have to do something about that unstable keystone - in this particular case, it looks like we have an option to stop the whole wall being reliant on it in the future.  I'll sit and relax once that's done.</blockquote>