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<blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 8921729" data-attributes="member: 58197"><p>Any time I see suggestions that someone is playing 4D chess, I assume that isn't the case unless there is compelling evidence to the contrary.</p><p></p><p>I'll assume that your focus is specifically on Friday's announcement and that you aren't claiming their <em>entire </em>strategy over the last month has been calculated and deliberate. Even so, however, I'm not seeing the motive. Yes, the 5E CC release could have the effect of isolating OSR and 3E fans... but what is WotC's interest in doing that? With all due respect to the OSR, it's a tiny sliver of the fanbase. There's no money there on the scale that would interest Wizards, and no prospect of making any. </p><p></p><p>Everything I've seen suggests that WotC's original goal was to establish tighter control over the <em>current</em> edition of the game, with an eye to stifling the development of rival VTTs (and probably also heading off any attempt to create a Pathfinder-equivalent for 5E). The 5E CC release pretty well shuts down any chance of accomplishing that.</p><p></p><p>I do think there was a little bit of <em>regular</em> chess-playing involved... but it was the pro-OGL faction within Wizards doing it. They saw an opportunity to put 5E out of reach of the anti-OGL crowd for good, and seized it. That's why they made a point of putting the Creative Commons-licensed PDF right there in the announcement, so the anti-OGL folks would have no way to walk things back or undercut them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dausuul, post: 8921729, member: 58197"] Any time I see suggestions that someone is playing 4D chess, I assume that isn't the case unless there is compelling evidence to the contrary. I'll assume that your focus is specifically on Friday's announcement and that you aren't claiming their [I]entire [/I]strategy over the last month has been calculated and deliberate. Even so, however, I'm not seeing the motive. Yes, the 5E CC release could have the effect of isolating OSR and 3E fans... but what is WotC's interest in doing that? With all due respect to the OSR, it's a tiny sliver of the fanbase. There's no money there on the scale that would interest Wizards, and no prospect of making any. Everything I've seen suggests that WotC's original goal was to establish tighter control over the [I]current[/I] edition of the game, with an eye to stifling the development of rival VTTs (and probably also heading off any attempt to create a Pathfinder-equivalent for 5E). The 5E CC release pretty well shuts down any chance of accomplishing that. I do think there was a little bit of [I]regular[/I] chess-playing involved... but it was the pro-OGL faction within Wizards doing it. They saw an opportunity to put 5E out of reach of the anti-OGL crowd for good, and seized it. That's why they made a point of putting the Creative Commons-licensed PDF right there in the announcement, so the anti-OGL folks would have no way to walk things back or undercut them. [/QUOTE]
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