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From a tweet by the author of the Gizmodo article, to my untrained eye, it appears they are deploying precisely the contracts argument that our resident attorneys have been warning us about: “This agreement governs Your use of the Licensed Content and... any prior agreements between Us and You...

Oh, heck no. As the whole history of the OGL (RIP) has proven, it's much easier to generate ill will than goodwill.

BTW, they've decided to go with "Licensed Content" as the replacement term for "Open Game Content." I still think they're missing a golden trolling opportunity by not calling it "One System Rules."

I gotta say, that's something that's never been in evidence to me! People complained that they wanted all restaurants to be Taco Bell, people complained when they released 3.5 that it tanked all the d20 System products, the retroclone publishers (and fans) generally took a "haha suck it, WotC"...

My guess is that it's just risk mitigation. They're more confident they'd be able to collect their share from products released through Kickstarter. But I'm just speculating.

I think a 20-25% royalty is designed to force big players into "a more custom (and mutually beneficial) licensing agreement" with Hasbro. I know KS has revolutionized TTRPG publishing, but I don't see how anyone could eat that. It's prohibitive.

Read the 10-minute Gizmodo article instead and fight the Pivot to Video.

Holy naughty word: 20-25% royalty on Qualifying Revenue. Well...that's, like, double what I considered an unrealistic worst-case scenario. That's a "don't try to make real money on this" kind of number.

I don't think I do misunderstand: I think WotC's statement that they're changing the terms of the OGL is evidence that something important is happening. I don't think Owen's post or the rumor mill catching fire, burning down, and falling into the river adds any evidence. But cool: no sparring.

Does it? How? Owen doesn't know anything, and is entirely upfront about that. He claims that the "leak reporters" are credible, but admits they could be wrong. And then he notes, "[...] even if Mark and Stephen are right and the final language doesn't change, it may not be nearly as bad as it...

Lots of detailed legal analysis from the offices of Wiki, Yahoo and Bing is this thread.

5e weekly, a couple B/X one-offs, one PF game (con event).

Thank you! This matches my recollections for the most part (although FFG didn’t actually “leave the field” until ~2006). In any case, it was 3.5 what done it—nothing with the OGL or d20STL. So…poor reading comprehension or disingenuous citation? You make the call!

Sounds like someone with no particular aptitude for intimidation taking plays straight out of the two-bit thug’s playbook. ;) Al Swearengen from Deadwood is my idea of a character with a good Charisma and probably expertise in the skill. Or Tony Soprano, if you prefer. They may not be...

Probably different people driving the GSL and the 4e decisions. So while I agree that they make mistakes, and I’m sure @pemerton agrees, they’re still in a much better position to make good decisions than any of us are.

I think there was a Pathfinder-sized hole in their risk-mitigation strategy. And yet, they still would have been fine if they’d designed a game that more of their customers wanted to play.

Yeah, this is a good question and I'm not completely sure where I land on it. On one hand, there was a kind of flowering of non-D&D RPGs in the 90s when D&D was weakest (or market fragmentation, depending on your perspective). On the other hand, you could argue there's been a second flowering of...

Yeah, I’ve seen this comment a few times and I don’t think it holds up at all. Lots of people might prefer Level Up to 5e or to 1D&D, but I don’t think anyone chooses Level Up because they’re happy with 5e and don’t want to make the move to 1D&D. From what we’ve seen, Level Up is a bigger change...

It’s a weird term, right? WTH is a “creator product”? Judging by the weird name, it sounds like a “Not Actually D&D” mark of shame you gotta wear if you want to publish the next Pathfinder. If that’s what it is, it’s my early front runner for most obnoxious thing in the new license. Like, make...

So…Lineage then?