We got an official leak of One D&D OGL 1.1! Watch Our Discussion And Reactions!

[Greg Benage]

"Advocating for creators" + "doing whatever we can to keep big D&D releases on Kickstarter so we can still get our own 5%"

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Interesting bit regarding why the royalty fee is lower for Kickstarter than for other crowdfunding platforms:

Well that's another very strong confirmation here, given Ritter works for Kickstarter and has clearly seen this thing.

 

[Ondath]

That seems to be what it means, yes.

Re: future games, Paizo would need to find a different licence, or not use a licence at all.c

That is actually insane.

 

[mhd]

Hope that if that happens, some of the currently OGL-d non-D&D games switch to something better, like Fudge or OpenD6.

Oh boy, could this get Chaosium complete control over BRP again?

 

[Ruin Explorer]

That is actually insane.

Right? But that's really what it appears to mean.

It's not permanent. But anything new would need to use no licence or a new licence, so there'd be quite a delay, and you'd probably want to republish everything under the new licence, if that's even possible (I think it would be?), which could be quite burdensome.

Hence this is pretty good leverage for forcing Paizo into some kind of better deal.

 

[BRayne]

You never know though, CR could (hopefully) do something positive based on the worsening perception of the 1.1 OGL, they haven't made a statement yet. More than anyone else, CR is in the best position to effect a change, because they don't need wotc, the have their own platforms and they draw people to d&d, not the other way around.

 

[Art Waring]

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That's quite interesting thank you for posting it!

 

[Greg Benage]

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I'm not sure I agree with the claim, but I really hope Mercer believes it.

 

[Tazawa]

How does WOTC asserting that OGL 1.0a is no longer an authorized version affect open game content released under 1.0a?

Does it mean that creators of that content are no longer bound by that license?

Can they ‘close’ their game content and proceed to develop game content derived from their formerly open content?

Could they open up this new content under a different open license?

 

[GMSkarka]

Given that the list of non-D&D rules systems released under OGL1.0a is pretty long (Runequest BRP, Mongoose Traveller, D6, FATE, etc.), any "de-authorizing" of that license is going throw some major wrenches into the works.