Ginny Di interviews WotC's Kyle Brink

Continuing the D&D executive producer's interview tour, gaming influencer Ginny Di asks a WotC's Kyle Brink about the OGL and other things.

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[Dausuul]

really? I had the opposite impression, not that I checked the 3e ones, simply based on the discussions here they seem far more complete

The 3E ones are indeed far more complete. However, they have also been carefully scoured for references to product identity, and those references removed, in a way that was not done with the 5E SRD.

 

[Parmandur]

I suppose WotC could become super duper scrutinizes of everything that uses that cc license and become letigous about anything that crosses the line by even a hair. And still leave the cc intact.

I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t do that. Really, I dint think for a second they’d do that. I do actually trust them that they won’t. But I never thought they’d go after the OGL either.

Honestly no bottom line benefit for it: trusting corporate greed, cowardice, and laziness is a much easier sell for me than their collective virtue.

 

[JEB]

We need to make sure we don't release things we don't intend or that aren't necessary for playing 3.0 or 3.5...

Interesting - are they actually thinking about putting the 3.0 SRD under CC in addition to the 3.5 one? I figured we'd just get 3.5.

(The d20 Modern SRD would also be awful nice, simply because it contributed to games like Mutants & Masterminds and True20.)

 

[Myrdin Potter]

Was pleased to see that she shared my opinion on what the morality clause was tossed in.

I generally share her scepticism.

 

[darjr]

Honestly no bottom line benefit for it: trusting corporate greed, cowardice, and laziness is a much easier sell for me than their collective virtue.

There wasn’t for trying to deauth the OGL either. The license fees would have been a tiny invisible fraction.

 

[Haplo781]

Interesting - are they actually thinking about putting the 3.0 SRD under CC in addition to the 3.5 one? I figured we'd just get 3.5.

(The d20 Modern SRD would also be awful nice, simply because it contributed to games like Mutants & Masterminds and True20.)

I think (hope) he was using it as shorthand for all the previous SRDs yeah.

 

[Parmandur]

There wasn’t for trying to deauth the OGL either. The license fees would have been a tiny invisible fraction.

So I would have thought: that, more than trusting the honesty of a guy I hadn't heard of a month ago, is why I give quite a bit of credence to the stated fear of megacorp and ideological interlocutors being the real target of all this..because brand protection makes more dollars and cents than nickel and dimeng 3PP.

 

[Arnie_Wan_Kenobi]

A Churchill quote comes to mind

“You can always rely on America to do the right thing -- once it has exhausted the alternatives.”

Laughing: this was exactly my reaction. It's a pleasure to see I'm not the only one.

 

[Retreater]

I liked Ginny Di's commentary and cutting to the point of the interview. Well done.
And I'm glad to see that I'm not alone in my concerns.

 

[TerraDave]

I liked Ginny Di's commentary and cutting to the point of the interview. Well done.
And I'm glad to see that I'm not alone in my concerns.

It was the more concise, higher gloss version of these interviews.

Her conclusions were good ones: trust community commons, but WotC, no quite so much.