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Heh. Yeah, that's an unusual product strategy for a successful line.

That'd be nice, but I don't think these leaks from inside WotC would be coming now if it was "dead in the water."

What was the timeline on 4e? Released in 2008, 5e in 2014. When was Essentials? And did someone mention they had stopped supporting it by 2012?

This...I think we have better lawyers at EnWorld.

It's not my concern. At all. I was answering in the "what are they thinking?" spirit of the question.

I am 100% opposed from a hobby (and human) perspective, but I'm not at all sure it isn't a "good idea" from a business perspective. It really depends on their legal position. If they're really convinced their legal position is solid and that they can enforce it (practically speaking), I can...

Easy for us to say, but it's not our business, employees and investors potentially facing an existential threat. Paizo strikes me in many ways as the least likely candidate.

Since @RyanD is here, I wonder if the OGF would be the natural host for a legal defense fund on GoFundMe or similar. Some folks may have some dollars that were going to be spent on the new edition.

I'm very familiar, Owen, thanks. I haven't had a dog in the hunt for a long time, so I have no pressing urge to argue it either way. The fact that 5e became a pop culture phenomenon without an SRD even being released makes me much less confident than I would have been twenty years ago.

I mean, again, I'd want to pull it because I think I can get a "normal" royalty rate from WotC instead. Yours is the second response like this, though, so maybe I'm the greedy one. :(

Separate issue. A bookstore can decide to no longer carry a title for any reason or no reason at all.

Because I figure a "normal" royalty would be something like 6-8% and I'd rather talk to Wizards about that.

So you do Kickstarters, explain how this would work. If I expect my KS to exceed the $750K threshold, I think I'd reach out to Wizards for a license with a reasonable royalty. No? ETA: Like, no one's going to intentionally try to swallow that 20% egg, are they? The question to me is, what if I...

There wasn't even an SRD when it took off.

I don't think it's "backdoor" -- I think Hasbro is making all the big guys offers they can't refuse. But Mercer liking that tweet at least suggests, even if it's some wishcasting on my part, that he might be inclined to refuse anyway.

I'm not sure I agree with the claim, but I really hope Mercer believes it.

Because it's not that clean and easy. Some of us try to remind people of this every time these issues come up, and it just doesn't stick for whatever reason. No one knows where a specific court in a specific case would find the line between "function" and "expression," and that's why the "safe...

"Advocating for creators" + "doing whatever we can to keep big D&D releases on Kickstarter so we can still get our own 5%" :D

Hmm?

It seems to me Hasbro has given them until 1/13 to decide how screwed they are. My assessment is that they're trying to force Paizo to the table to negotiate a more conventional licensing agreement, because Paizo is unlikely to have a really clear idea of how screwed they are within the next week.