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<blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 8918112" data-attributes="member: 58197">That depends on how different 1D&amp;D ends up being from 5E. Based on the playtests to date, it would be fairly trivial to make third-party content for 1D&amp;D using the 5E SRD.Now, this could change and 1D&amp;D might evolve to be very different from 5E. That would break WotC's &quot;backwards compatibility&quot; promise, but Wizards has been pretty cavalier about keeping its promises lately. However, it would also be an enormous risk -- many times bigger than attacking the OGL -- to take with the most successful edition of D&amp;D ever printed. Even now, I'm sure a lot of players and DMs haven't noticed the OGL brouhaha, but everybody's going to notice major changes to the core rules.My guess is Wizards would prefer to die on the OGL de-authorization hill rather than make sweeping changes in 1D&amp;D. Unless, of course, they decide they need to retool D&amp;D to be more friendly to their new VTT... but in that case, they're re-enacting the process that led to 4E, and they'd probably still want to plow ahead with de-authorization in a (likely futile) attempt to smother the next Pathfinder in its cradle.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dausuul, post: 8918112, member: 58197"] That depends on how different 1D&D ends up being from 5E. Based on the playtests to date, it would be fairly trivial to make third-party content for 1D&D using the 5E SRD. Now, this could change and 1D&D might evolve to be very different from 5E. That would break WotC's "backwards compatibility" promise, but Wizards has been pretty cavalier about keeping its promises lately. However, it would also be an [I]enormous[/I] risk -- many times bigger than attacking the OGL -- to take with the most successful edition of D&D ever printed. Even now, I'm sure a lot of players and DMs haven't noticed the OGL brouhaha, but everybody's going to notice major changes to the core rules. My guess is Wizards would prefer to die on the OGL de-authorization hill rather than make sweeping changes in 1D&D. Unless, of course, they decide they need to retool D&D to be more friendly to their new VTT... but in that case, they're re-enacting the process that led to 4E, and they'd probably [I]still[/I] want to plow ahead with de-authorization in a (likely futile) attempt to smother the next Pathfinder in its cradle. [/QUOTE]

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