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Section 2 of the OGL says, "This License applies to any Open Game Content that contains a notice indicating that the Open Game Content may only be Used under and in terms of this License. You must affix such a notice to any Open Game Content that you Use." This is separate from the requirement...

I'm a game programmer. The schedule seems pretty tight to me, though not necessarily impossible. I think it depends a lot on: How much do they want it to do? Do they want to track initiative, integrate with character sheets from another app, roll dice, display rules tips, automate hundreds...

When we drove the Sky People off Pandora, we thought the battle was over. But nothing good lasts forever. It took them years, but they returned to try again, with 10 times the resources. At first, we couldn't understand what they were doing. Why would they destroy an entire ecosystem, just...

Good observation! The simple reason is that these are only the player-facing rules. My GM-facing rules (including monsters, treasure tables, encounter tables, magic items, mutation tables, villainous character classes, and so on) are in a more fragmentary state that isn't really ready to be...

For what it's worth, the names of all the classes are in the multiclassing rules, which are part of the proposed CC-BY content.

I've been using homebrew rules for a few years, but the OGL debacle motivated me to clean them up and share them on my website under the OGL (while the license is still "authorized"). Here they are: Wizards With Crossbows They are essentially my own stripped down version of Third Edition...

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I plan to send the following feedback in the survey: WOTC proposes to deauthorize the OGL 1.0a, in contravention of the document's clear intent and in defiance of WOTC's previous assurances that the OGL 1.0a could not be revoked. This is treacherous and unlawful (i.e., chaotic evil). Do not...

Someone has transcribed the non-commercial license from this video and posted it in pastebin here: Edit to add: One aspect I find particularly suprising is that the license defines Licensed Content only as the SRD 5.1. There is no reference at all to open game content previously released...