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Even with WotC moving the 5e SRDs to a CC-BY 4.0 license, I don't think that undoes the harm done by WotC. Any time a hobbyist or...

100% true. But can't you generallize that in 5e, basically everything is just vaguely thematic spells? It's not like warlocks, bards, or...

The point of the FUD isn't to assert foregone truths, it's to allude to enough risk that you get what you want anyway. This...

For 13A 2E it's only ("only") 32 products, assuming their copyright notices are complete, a lot of which are owned by Fire Opal Media or...

Who promptly dipped, or was fired.

I don't agree. If anything, an updated OGL would serve this role better. This is definitely true, but is not at all exculpatory, and...

To describe my "off-ramp" idea a bit, since it's related to what you were and are saying: I think the most (universally) valuable...

This is exactly what I don't like about this response. It doesn't "turn out" anything, and there was nothing weak about the status quo...

That doesn't support the argument that they're not hostile. Two kids may well have sandboxes, but when one of those kids is okay with...

I can't speak for the publishers, and would be interested to hear specific perspectives, but as a general principle, yes it did threaten...

Question from someone not incredibly knowledgeable about the differences between the various licenses: When WotC proposed the original...

This is the gist of my problem with the "everything's great!" reading of the OGL aftermath. To the degree to which one valued the...

This thread reminds me that WotC kept making noises about putting previous SRDs under CC, but has never actually made any movement in...

I don't have your tolerance for corporate action, especially in my hobbies. It's one thing to put up with casual inhuman behavior in my...

I get it. But there's just soooo many dots there that aren't an obvious line from one point to the other. And I don't see any actual...