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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 6001418" data-attributes="member: 22779">Warbringer - I'm going to ignore all the political stuff you put up there, cos it's pretty close to violating site rules.  But, I think you are ignoring a few things.Take the OGL discussion.  It's been said over and over again that the genie is out of the bottle and we cannot go back.  Any closed D&D system will fail and proponents point to 4e as a prime example.  Thus, any new version of D&D will need to have some sort of open content clause, probably somewhere between the wide openness of the OGL and the rather toxic GSL.There's a perfect example of why you "can't go back".  If WOTC wanted, it could try to go back to the old TSR days of 100% closed content and actively shutting down any online material.  It would be a suicidal business decision.  And, hey, I'm not a big proponent of the OGL, but, even I'll admit that you cannot ever have a completely closed D&D anymore and expect to succeed.Mechanically, we could try to go back to the 1e days where the DM was intended to hold sway over all the rules and the players should be largely ignorant of most of the mechanical resolution systems.  Put all the resolution systems back in the DMG and put a big "Keep OUT" sign to players on the DMG. Again, not going to happen.  It would be foolish to even try.  For one thing, you are arbitrarily limiting the number of DM's out there - since players should never become DM's.  It's a very, very bad business decision and it didn't work even when it was tried.So, no, you can't go back.  At least, there are lots of things you can't go back on.</blockquote>

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