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The 4e GSL SRD was not an srd by our ogl understanding. It was basically a list of terms and powers that you could refer to in your own publications and a way to cite the rulebooks to point people at the relevant rules you were forbidden from reproducing. It was garbage. The gsl was the worst...

It's never going to be enough. There's no such thing in the level they play at. Towards the end of 2019 Hasbro stock was trading around $120/share. It's now in the $60 range. Shareholders want it to be back up at $120. The ones who overpaid and actually bought at over $100 want it even higher...

All 4 of them actually. In June Renegade will add their own My Little Pony RPG to the other 3 they already make under license from Hasbro. I don't think it's related. Renegade offered them money for game licenses around those properties and Hasbro wanted the money. IIRC originally they were...

Wait - isn't that how most people use the formula already? I thought 5 was basically just a starting point for riffing on small dungeon layouts.

Here you go: My response to them when I get a chance is going to be an explanation of why they need to go back and look at the d20 STL and realize that everything they say they're trying to do with this 1.2 OGL can be done with the OGL 1.0a intact and the addition of a new trademark license...

Right. Well, probably right. D&D's problems are a symptom of wider problems at Hasbro. They have "activist investors" who are waiting to pounce and sell the company for parts, so if Magic and D&D start floundering they may have some sharks out for blood on their heels. So while they might not go...

Might want to wait for a bit - lots of folks on that Twitter thread saying they're having errors with the survey. (Borked website or just overloaded with folks eager to give Wizards a piece of their mind? Who can say?)

What's shocking is that it is the exact same mess and they don't seem to remember why the 5e SRD was put under an OGL in the first place. The didn't have to do it. 4e wasn't OGL. 5e didn't have to be OGL. But they did it anyway. And for very good reasons - 5e being under the OGL has benefited...

I'm on the patreon and he did put out an announcement last week that he's pondering possibilities for Icons. It should be easy enough to relicense the core game under a different license since it's actually mostly Fate derived not d20 and Fate has both an OGL and CC-BY license options. But the...

Because everyone believed back in 2008 that the license was irrevocable. Including everyone at Wizards. This argument of "it says perpetual which doesn't mean irrevocable" is a shift in the legal language over the last 20 years that has opened up a loophole that they're going to squeeze...

I said elsewhere that I've done this dance before. When I learned what a terrible company TSR was in the 90s I basically stopped buying D&D and started playing other games more heavily. The Wizards purchase and the OGL is what basically brought me back to D&D. So I can leave it again and be...

Nuking the creative commons is repugnant. Lying to everyone for 20+ years about a license being irrevocable and then revoking it is deceptive business practice. Neither of these may be against the law in any way, but they certainly color my desire to do business with a company perpetrating them.

I don't think that's how it works, since even under a CC-BY Wizards is still the holder of the copyright and so can use it however they want and also license it to other people under different terms if they choose to. It's just that a CC-BY license is open and irrevocable so they can't take it...

I mean, they list the pages on the document. So we kind of at least know their intent. (from their draft for discussion document) We skip all of the classes and races to get to page 56. Pages 56-104 has sections that are under the headings "Beyond 1st Level" (Which beyond advancement also...

The owner at the time was ... Wizards of the Coast. So, you know, the same company that owns it now. D&D hasn't changed hands since they put out the 5e SRD unless I've missed a memo. No you misread my question to you. It wasn't "do you know why 4e failed to catch on," which has as you say many...

What's more they're a giant who is using a normal pistol in this scenario. They have plenty more hit points to absorb that shot than the other folks they're shooting.

Let me turn it around - why did Wizards decide to put out a 5e SRD under the OGL when they didn't have to? Answer that question and you'll understand the benefit to Wizards that the OGL has been since it was introduced. Because we've been through this dance before where they decided to cut off...

I mean, have you looked at the DriveThruRPG sidebar? That dropdown list for publishers is nuts if you ever try to use it. (And that's without the indie publishers who only publish on itch and won't work with OneBookShelf for whatever reason. Lots of small single person shops out there putting...

Because Hasbro is large enough to absorb that damage and keep going while the smaller publishers are not. Revoking the OGL will hurt them, even if they don't think it will. But probably not as much as it should.

I'm not sure how they could really. The OGL exists because Wizards needed to build trust after buying D&D from TSR. The last time Wizards destroyed trust and had to build it back up they used the OGL to do it again. Wizards may have forgotten why they released an SRD for 5e but I sure haven't.