Search results

How about a tag just for that topic, so we can ignore it in the New Posts list? One D&D being a forum instead of a tag, and not having any tags on the threats means it's impossible to get One D&D out of the New Posts like any other editions.

Funky dice... And already I'm out... :(

In that case they should have done that like a week ago. I think the impact of all of this will only start become apparent a year after 6th edition actually is released. And it might be difficult to tell apart how much of the sales hit will be from bad PR or simply from people not caring about...

I still have stuff in my DriveThru library for download that has been pulled from sales ages ago. They don't normally seem to remove any files, only removing the product pages and stop selling them to new customers. Has WotC done anything at all yet to in some way clarify or at least say...

The SRD text itself should be entirely protected by copyright. WotC giving other people permission to use the text in commercial and noncommercial works in its original form or altered does not in any way reduce their copyright to the SRD text. When it comes to creating new original text from...

Well, yes. But they will more than make up for the loss in sales profit caused by all of this from the cuts they get from all the 1.1 products that still will be getting sold. Surely...?

I don't. My point was that the rumors seemed to dumb to be true. Things just keep getting dumber since then.

"OpenDND" has been floating as an idea for a few weeks now.

If anything, there would only be royalties on future sales of OGL products. And I think if D&D goes down in flames from this, these companies have enough of a brand to maintain customers for future non-D&D products.

Now imagine what software companies could do to other software companies if this were ruled to be legal.

At this point, nobody knows anything.

I would assume it would be much easier to create a new Pathfinder 3rd edition system from scratch.

Probably, but it might cause their products to be banned from being important into the US, loosing the entire market.

It's not an RPG issue, it's an open license issue. (Assume the issue even exists in the first place, which I seriously doubt.) And open licenses in software are a big deal.

Whatever happens, the only edition of D&D I have any interest in is Old-School Essentials. Worst case scenario is that nothing changes for me at all. Anything that makes 6th edition less popular and get people more interested in other existing editions can only be of benefit to my campaigns.

If you want to make new 6th edition content unavailable under the new license, all they would have to do is simply call it anything other than Open Game License version 1.1. Just don't claim that the new license is a new version of the old license, and you're golden. You can put whatever you...

That's one week from now. How would WotC even be able to reach all people using the OGL and SRD content in that time to inform them of these changes? Which it legally can't make to the existing contracts anyway.

That would be outside of any actual outside and simply be blackmail by threatening to abuse the legal system with fraudulent lawsuits. They can do that regardless of what a new license my say or not say.

You pronounce it grognard, because in this context it's an American word and Americans pronounce all foreign words wrong. (Sorry, but you all know it's true. :p)

About what?