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Do we actually know anything about the “Creator Product” badge? If we do, please tell me. Because I don’t.

No one ever does, that’s why it’s so funny. He’s the Rodney Dangerfield of hobby game celebrities. (Peter Adkison - I think you also merged him with Richard Garfield.)

This is solid gold. [emoji23]

See above.

Maybe. I was running the RPG business for Fantasy Flight Games during that period, and I don't remember any publisher suggesting in 2003 that they would stop using the d20 STL (or ever, for that matter) because of the "community decency" language that was introduced after Book of Erotic Fantasy...

My recollection was more that, after the bubble popped, no distributor or retailer on this planet wanted to see anything with a "d20" on it.

I mean that stuff on DMsGuild is a mix of unique IP, Wizards IP, and other creators' IP, so of course you can't republish it in whole. Why would you think you should be able to republish it in whole? This seems incorrect. You can't publish a "campaign setting" (this isn't well defined, as far...

Well, of course not. That doesn't mean you can't republish the unique IP in it somewhere else, though.

I'd be interested in hearing more about this. Based on what you've seen, what does 5e do that OneD&D doesn't? What does 5e do better? So far, it seems to me they're changing a lot of details, but they don't add up to a whole lot (good or bad, IMO). What have you seen that makes you think, "This...

That doesn't appear to be true. From the site, "Wizards does not own any of the unique IP that you create in your publications." It strikes me that you could use the unique IP you've published on DMsGuild in a different publication. Does the agreement say somewhere that you can't? Perhaps, and...

That isn't true, but you do grant Wizards and other DMsGuild authors a license to your IP. I'm not a 3PP, but a lot of them seem to be satisfied with the arrangement judging by the avalanche of product available there.

You don't need an OGL for DMs Guild, and it seems to have been pretty successful.

Hmm. I want it all to be free and for there to be lots of third-party support, and even I'm not sure I believe this. I think CR has done wonders for D&D, but it would have done so if they'd never published anything. Stranger Things did wonders for it, but the Duffer brothers aren't third-party...

I share that concern, but let's probe it a bit. That particular Kickstarter campaign brought in about $1.25 million with 13,000+ backers. Kickstarter takes 5% (someone correct me if that's wrong). @Morrus suggests we could double that to estimate total sales, and let's assume those additional...

I think Wizards has to be sure they bring their customers with them. This can't be a repeat of the move from 3.5/OGL to 4/GSL. This is subjective, but I haven't seen anything yet in the playtest that's likely to significantly fracture the fanbase and create an appealingly viable market for...

If game mechanics aren’t copyrightable, one might argue the OGL as it has existed for 20 years “seems pretty pointless.” The point has always been the “safe harbor”: Whether or not a particular court in a particular case would find copyright infringement, stick to the terms of this agreement and...

The second bullet is incorrect. Any Open Game Content can be used under OGL 1.0, but there’s nothing stopping Wizards from releasing a OneD&D SRD with no OGC in it.

I agree that there is some logical tension between the “corporate greed” and “rounding error” lines of attack. It could still be malice, though. [emoji23]

I think there will be a lot of publishers who simply use 1.1 and few or none that go the clone route, just as a matter of common sense. I do expect some publishers to continue supporting 5e, and they obviously wouldn’t have any need for 1.1. From a fan perspective, my hope is that a tighter...

Right, so it's trivially easy to square the circle. They simply don't release any Open Game Content for OneD&D. Now you can try to clone what you want using the OGL 1.0a and previous SRDs, but you could clone the game system anyway, without any license. You would probably win in court.