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Never said anything about them being doomed. They don't have to be staring down certain doom to rethink how generous they are with their competition. The new OGL still lets a devoted fan sell $50,000 worth of books a year without even worrying about financial reporting. That's pretty...

I don't know that I can support "best edition ever". It was a great system design. It was a fun game to play. But the amount of time and energy spent on maintaining that system with balance and errata was unsustainable from a business perspective. Hasbro likely wanted design staff to start...

My preferred edition is actually BECMI, and DriveThruRPG has me covered as long as WotC is happy to sell the classics POD. I own the OSE Classic and Advanced books and Greg Gillespie's mega dungeons, and bought everything from New Big Dragon Games/Richard LeBlanc on Lulu today just in case it...

Whataboutism would be if I said "why boycott Hasbro when what Blizzard did is just as bad?" An accusation that trivial matters are exaggerated in importance, and that passion to right wrongs can be better channeled elsewhere entirely isn't "whataboutism".

I don't actually believe that fan backlash ended 4e. It certainly had a lot to do with Paizo's rise in popularity, but I don't think 4e would have lasted the years it did if fan backlash were primary concern. I think the end of 4e had more to do with the degree to which the core mechanics of...

So imagine your buddy at the Cadbury plant lost his job not because the company screwed up the recipe, but instead lost business to a boycott launched because it had announced that the free ice cream it gave out was no longer “all you can eat” and had been downgraded to “an appropriate amount of...

I really don't understand how people can talk about "going nuclear" and burning D&D and all of its branding to the ground over this. I'm really sorry you're so invested in the OGL that like... my life's passion needs to fade into obscurity to satisfy your vendetta. Like I should just go back...

Don't cry because it (the OGL) is over, smile because it happened. :D

In this case, I don't think it matters. They're not describing a means for Paizo to continue to have unfettered use of the 3.x SRD via OGL 1.0/a, they're describing drafting a new license so that original game systems can continue to operate on the open source model. It doesn't directly...

En publishing already kickstarted "two crunchy roleplaying games". They have a system that's all theirs, and owes nothing to Hasbro. I was actually low key dissapointed when their subsequent kickstarters were for 5e content, rather than further support for these new systems I bought into. I'm...

Two days from when YOU got access to the PDF. Have you considered that the people who need to worry about this actually received the document long before that pdf was leaked?

They can sign now. The royalties only apply to product sold after Jan 1, 2024. They have a year to transition what they produce and how they do business.

But the thread isn't about caring about their plights, it's about boycotting Hasbro and "going nuclear on 1D&D". What about all the people who work at Hasbro whose kids have mouths to feed too? Why are the people who want to boycott hasbro to protect independent creators innocent, while the...

If I create two different LLCs to double my revenue cap, then yes, I'm a bad dude and need to be stopped. I don't think the intent of that clause is to say that I MUST earn as much revenue as possible, and am never allowed to say "my company is going to slow down and maybe not release quite so...

As far as I can tell, this license is no threat to small teams, or independent creators, that want to make a living producing OGL content. It's only a problem for people who wanted to start business models dependent on the idea that Hasbro would be kind enough to just handle market development...

Where? If I'm on track to sell $800,000 worth of product this year, you're telling me I'm NOT ALLOWED to scale back my business, produce less content next year, and let some of my contributors leave to form their own company, who may or may not want to start producing content of their own?

If WotC's stance here is "we always intended for the OGL to empower small studios, not to provide our competitors with unfettered access to our game systems", and the way they're handling that is to let small publishers sell $750k worth of product in a year... I take back what I said earlier...

The royalty is only for publishers that make ANNUAL revenue of 750k, not life time. And they only pay the royalty on revenue in excess of 750k. And it only counts revenue of licensed works, not total company revenue. And it doesn't count sales prior to January 1, 2024. ("no royalties will be...

I'm not sure if @Morrus has already talked about this, but did WOIN actually rely on any of the OGC, or was the OGL included to permit others to produce WOIN content?

Desktop publishing wasn't quite as prevalent when the orignal OGL was introduced. WotC didn't have to compete with every single person who ever wanted to put out a product, they only had to compete with the people who could invest in publishing the material. Given that the cost of publishing...