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My understanding is the same as yours. There may be some confusion between the CC-BY and the CC-BY-SA licenses. The CC-BY-SA are share-alike licenses which DO have the restrictions that @Yaarel notes. CC-BY, on the other hand, just requires you to note the contributions of the people whose...

I'm positive that someone was thinking sandbox but better when they picked the name.

Naw, it'll be more like "promising franchise ruined by bungling corporation shooting themselves in the foot right before release." Genre movie narratives tend to be written by fans of genre. And movie reviewers in general like to pounce on "executive meddling" as the reason for any failure if...

That's only if the pages they listed for their draft response document are actually what gets put into the final version though. And the page listing is sloppy as heck and includes the phrase "excluding examples" as far as the text that is considered under CC-BY. So I'm positive the actual text...

Oh it's pretty much all I've been considering through all of this. I think @talien has hit the nail on the head in a lot of ways here.

I mean, that ship has probably sailed as much as it's going to unless they decide to just drop everything and walk it all back in February when their survey closes and try to do a reset back to status quo. Even then they've riled up people for bad reasons so probably whatever impact it's going...

The one thing in its favor is that folks can point to the growth that 5e had before they started meddling with it and say "look we can make this work, we did before, we just need more patience and more understanding of the market we're actually selling to to not make these kinds of mistakes...

Disney has plenty of fantasy IP already that they can mine. They just finished a first season of a Willow TV series and that's one of the least of their IPs. They could pretty easily create an expanded universe just using princesses and villains if they wanted to go that route. I mean another...

I'm actually hopeful that we can get enough into the CC-BY or CC0 license that a full CC SRD could be created and used by everyone not-Wizards as a "lingua franca" for a "Tunnels and Tarasques" F20 framework that can be built upon. I'm hoping that the ORC crowd of companies are thinking of a...

Yes. Character creation in TMNT was one of the best parts of the game. Playing with those BIO-E computations to get the weirdest character you could find was a fun mini-game, even if it often led to characters that you'd never be able to play. Because you got more BIO-E by reducing your size...

I just want to watch their session 0 where they make characters. And be reminded of all of the things that we thought were fine in the 90s that are really not. It will be like watching sitcoms from the 80s or 90s with my 15 year old, who is no longer surprised at some of the things that are...

I'm not actually sure that they care about this as much as they claim. If they did they'd realize that releasing rules under a CC-BY puts them exactly in the same "predicament" image wise as releasing rules under the OGL. The OGL requires attribution, so Wizards name is on every product that...

I mean, Wizards does have a sponsorship deal with Critical Role IIRC. But that was under the old regime. A change of execs leads to changes of thinking a lot of the time, which is what's going on now. So getting some video game execs in there means they're trying to apply their video game...

The streamers can easily move to other games. Any other ttrpg company that isn't WotC wouldn't think to try to treat them as someone who owes them money to play their game online. That's a very video game company attitude. I'd be surprised if WotC got any money from streamers because it is so...

I mean, I don't think anything I left was scathing. But I guess one person's "honest" is another person's "scathing" so you know ymmv. I tried to be nice. Most of my ire was directed at their "Harmful content" policy since it's so bad. I probably can't get into what I said without violating the...

I'm not going to be pulping anything. But I also won't buy anything new, and I'll play other games. The books I already own can sit on my shelves and I can pull them out for ideas for the next Torg campaign or Swords of the Serpentine one-shot or 13th Age game I decide to run. It's the same as...

Yeah their marketing folks - heck the whole D&D team - have to be really frustrated by all of this. Trying to talk up new product in the middle of the PR hurricane their bosses have shoved them into is not going to work.

Actually what's worse is that if you screw up your million dollar kickstarter or the timing of your production coincides with unanticipated increased costs you could end up deeper in debt because you brought in a million in revenue on books that will cost you nearly a million to produce, print...

That's the thing about all of this. Everything they've proposed is at their whim. There are no checks in place to ensure that they won't just change their mind tomorrow and end your business. And what's worse is I'm sure that there are guys at Wizards are thinking "two years is a really good...

Exactly. D&D only becomes profitable because of network effects. Grow the network and reap the benefits in the long term. It's exactly the insight that had Dancey create the OGL and the SRD in the first place - better to have 3pp supporting D&D and growing the game Wizards would profit from than...