as far as I remember they offered exactly zero carrots, unless you consider having to pay 5% less in the first year for signing on fast a carrot
not really
so in other words, yes, subclasses, spells, magic items, monsters all become open, but you are not required to release an SRD, so the only way to get your content would be to buy your product (at least until it starts spreading to other products)
that was more my understanding, that 13A was evolving 4e while 5e was more a do-over, but that does not mean they could not end up in a similar place… There sometimes are these posts that 5e is just a thin coat of paint to hide the 4e below it. Not having played 13A it could go either way and I...
from my understanding it is an evolution of 4e, kinda an alternative 5e, but I have no first hand experience with it so cannot say if it is closest to 5e
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thegn
"thane[1] (or thayn in Shakespearean English) was an aristocrat who owned substantial land in one or more counties. Thanes ranked at the third level in lay society, below the king and ealdormen"
at no point did I ever say that, in fact I said the opposite, more than once… but that is the difference between relying on the feature and what happens during the game to establish that connection
Ray Winninger had left by October 2022, so maybe in protest to the change, certainly not because of it backfiring
Nathan Stewart left in July 2023, theoretically an option