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While I am super-stoked with this news for the 3PPs out there whose livelihood has been so threatened, and for all gamers who are happy to walk back and continue giving wotc their money (I mean this genuinely), I for one will only be giving my money to the 3PPs and all the new games and content...

If I understand anything about wotc/hasbro now, isn’t it the case that we won … and they won? Apparently we shouldn’t be fooled by anyone who says that only we won?

Well, for many of us, they have ruined their chance. It seems to me that folks who write this kind of stuff (“give them a chance to make it right”), more or less in defence of wotc, forget (or don’t even know) that this is not the first time they have tried this (ie. 4e’s GSL). To continue...

Yeah, like that’s an acceptable compromise. 🤣Rather, it’s a mess noone would enjoy … like the OGL 1.2 and it’s variations. (Remember wotc is this analogy is the pizza company, they’re not at the table eating the crap pizza. They got the money for the pizza and that’s all they care about)

Boom 💥 …. completely true. Sadly, many people’s values fail in the face of discomfort or inconvenience 😕😔

Yikes, so trying to takeover and control the whole hobby and industry isn’t enough of a reason? That’s …. a stratospherically high bar you have there. 😳

Totally agree with this. It's essentially the reason I won't be spending another penny on D&D until wotc no longer owns it. (That is, it won't be enough for me for hasbro to sell off wotc) "Don't bite the hand that feeds you" - the problem is that wotc thinks they're the ones feeding us...

And so what they are saying is, they don't want to be judged by their peers ... hhhhmmm, I can understand why!

So cynical am I now regarding wotc, I can even see the potential of wotc themselves turning up in front of a judge and saying "we don't believe this thing we put in our license is actually enforceable, please agree".

I agree. I like the idea of being able to reject objectionable content, but there are problems with this, not least that of it being in the hands of wotc, who have proven themselves to be completely untrustworthy and in no way could be trusted to not use this clause for their own benefit (ie...

Cool, thanks for the clarification. (I'm not from the US 😉 )

This is complete BS and, I imagine, quite "unenforceable" ... Here's wotc telling us how we can and can't use something that is completely outside their control. I would love for an actual lawyer to chime in here, but I can't see how they can tell a VTT creator "you can't create a visual...

Continuing on from my previous post, how will this function in relation to 9(d) ... So if no trial is available, who gets to decide if something in "unenforceable" per 9(d). They don't even provide a clause for how disputes are to be resolved. This wotc post and new "OGL", like everything...

They are making themselves appear so magnanimous by giving you what you already have ie. the non-copywritable mechanics. True, making it explicit is good, but I would prefer they do it honestly.

Wow. I don't have time to read all 5 pages of comments, but what I have read so far sounds like most people think wotc have given you what you want? Yes, yes, the word "irrevocable" made it in there, but my question is, where's the trap? There is simply no way that I can believe that they...

Well, yeah. This would also be dumb if it were real .... An Update on the Open Game License (OGL) oh, wait 😳 I'm quite sure the question of whether their actions are "dumb" or not, has "never crossed [their] minds". 😂

Gold, absolute gold 🤩😂

Wow, just ... wow 😳. Breathtaking. You didn't happen to write wotc's ... sorry, D&D beyond's, "update on the OGL" did you?

@TheSword, some food for thought, rather than worrying too much (read: "at all") about "a business trying to consolidate its IP" .... wotc IP has never been in danger. That is not what they are trying to "consolidate" or protect with their proposed new OGL. I won't go into a repeat of deeper...

While I accept this is an attempt to provide a balanced analysis and comparison, it is fundamentally flawed. Any 'apology' that is filled with lies, obfuscation, and watering-down language, to the point of effectively blaming the 'victim' (we the community) for misunderstanding their...