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I am not sure that they disagree that they benefit from the OGL material, changing the terms does not imply that they do not benefit, only that they wanted to squeeze out more. Also, they can disagree and be wrong at the same time. Business people do not strike me as ones that generally...

you have no right for it to be licensed that way, you have every right to ask for it however WotC is not suffering because of the OGL / CC, all the content made under it for their game is benefiting D&D sales, that is why they created the OGL in the first place. they waived that right, and...

yes, that is why I said if you ignore size... SD does have a few larger ones too though, like https://dungeondamsel.com/product/unnatural-selection-standard-edition-pdf/ On a related note, how long would it take to create a DH class?

how soon did SD get 3pp products? I assume it is simply still too early… Maybe not being part of the homebrew-heavy OSR also has something to do with it, at least if you count the number of releases only and ignore their size

it won't make them into the new D&D, that was helped by the network effect, but it probably will get more people to create content for their game than a closed license would. The one thing I can see them having second thoughts about is to not just allow content for their game to be created, but...

I assume it is the fact the DP reserves the right to revoke the license, at which point you can no longer use it for new material (while the old material is ‘safe’ under it) and choose to either release an updated license or to just revoke it After we had the irrevocable OGL, I guess people are...

mostly at how brief it is though ;)

what in the Rob Schwalb games do you think is inspired by 4e?

so it lost a little today, that does not make the 5 year curve incorrect, or means much of anything

it is not even using a d20 as its core resolution mechanic, I'd say anything that does not falls outside a D&D variant d12s, (on the player side) I agree with the rest

this assumes there is a fixed set of people, which is clearly not true you did not say that D&D cannot grow forever, you said sales stopped growing already

sales numbers, no, quarterly and annual reports, absolutely. While they do not list D&D explicitly as a category, they sometimes do mention D&D related tidbits like growth rate. I wish they would not try to obfuscate so much in their financial reporting, but it is still the best info we have...

Caverns of the Spore Lord is also free

Agreed, and people are free to express their opinion about the license used or even the lack of a license, just like Monty did D&D using CC-BY certainly did up the ante for the others

not sure what games you are looking at, but since the Dungeon Dudes create 5e content I am pretty sure they compare against its SRD, which is CC-BY, and the criticism is against games that are more restrictive than that. That is also reflected in their statement that they are surprised that...

I have not seen data to suggest this, apart from the Covid bubble bursting I am not counting on the irrationality of WotC / Hasbro over DH. Let's see how much attention DH has in 6 months, WotC cannot really react in that timeframe even if they wanted to. By then we also have Draw Steel and...

Panic may not be rational, but it still needs a trigger. I do not see the release of DH to be enough for that. If D&D sales shrink drastically, whether because of DH or for some other unknown reason, then WotC might panic and move in a DH direction to stem the flow, but I am not seeing DH as...

yes, they would probably lean into the same direction, not sure how else they could react in a way that would get people back. A new setting with some DH species and some other DH elements might be enough, maybe some narrative gaming advice in an 'of Everything' book too. I do not see them...

Dragonlance is owned by WotC, the only place you can publish them is on DMsGuild. Maybe you can also just host them somewhere yourself without charging money, but DMsG is the only place to charge for it

I am not seeing WotC panicking over DH. They ‘panicked’ over 4e because its sales were bad and falling, not because someone somewhere released a competing game. That competing game gained traction because 4e was failing all by itself, not the other way around. Since I do not see DH taking on...