Battlezoo Shares The OGL v1.1

Battlezoo, the YouTube channel which shared the initial leak of the new Open Game License, has shared the PDF of the OGL v1.1 draft which is currently circulating. This draft is, presumably, the same document obtained by Gizmodo last week. It's not currently known if this is the final version of the license.

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[Retreater]

If it were a draft, they wouldn't have just contacted the head of Kickstarter and made an arrangement based on a theoretical "what-if" - right?

 

[Ghost2020]

Anyone have a document with Links that work?

 

[FitzTheRuke]

None of what I just read seems all that unreasonable to me. And yet, "everyone" seems to be furious. What am I missing?

 

[Ruin Explorer]

My 'is this a draft' is because:

Is this missing sections? Trying to find the IX.B.2 for qualifying revenue, am i missing it?

It's more likely there are typos in the document as a result of how it was put together.

Again if you read the section I quoted, it's not referring to a flat document.

But this is a flat document. That means it was put together by taking stuff from the non-flat version of the document. Now if you did that in Word or LibreOffice or the like, they might try to "help you out" with the numbering. Or they might just be typos in the original! It's not unheard-of, especially if WotC did this in-house rather than using an external law firm (who have resources in-house lawyers rarely have for preventing that kind of error).

It's EVEN possible stuff like that is an intentional error designed to show who copied this, but I think that's unlikely.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Anyone have a document with Links that work?

If they do, let us know. The trouble is the links almost certainly are personalized to a specific individual.

 

[Haplo781]

None of what I just read seems all that unreasonable to me. And yet, "everyone" seems to be furious. What am I missing?

Start with these

 

[Greg K]

I think we should see other people, hay pathfinder what's up how are you doing

Or Savage Worlds, Fantasy Age (the new version is coming out within next couple of months), Honor + Intrigue, Barbarian of Lemuria (or Legends of Steel), BASH! Fantasy, Tinyd6, EZd6, ... or one of several other games.

 

[Ghost2020]

Yes, agreed.
Someone did some OCR or Copy\Paste to notepad, then to PDF or something to remove metadata most likely, just to be safe.

 

[Charlaquin]

The tone is definitely bizarre, even for “plain language” commentary. Seems like they’re trying to intimidate the reader into taking action, and to sound casual and relatable at the same time. The result is just weird and off-putting.

 

[Haplo781]

The tone is definitely bizarre, even for “plain language” commentary. Seems like they’re trying to intimidate the reader into taking action, and to sound casual and relatable at the same time. The result is just weird and off-putting.

They outright lie about what the license actually says multiple times