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Maybe not the exact same thing, but something equally disastrous and ill-conceived. I keep coming back to the observation that the time when D&D had its greatest period of growth was when Wizards decided they couldn't make much money off the game itself so put out a minimal edition with...

But that was already true under the OGL? Like, if Wizards went and released a new incompatible edition tomorrow and we were still where we were in November (i.e. SRD under the OGL, no claim that the OGL was able to be revoked or deauthorized), then people could still release 5e stuff. And 3e...

Can someone please explain to me how having the srd under a cc-by license makes things any different for Wizards from a competition angle than having it under the ogl did? I don't see it. Putting things under a cc does remove the restrictions wizards had on pi from the ogl. But beyond that...

Yeah - I think that's exactly what happened. I told my wife that some of the leaks that Linda Codega and others (like the D&D shorts guy) were reporting on had the scent of an internal power battle being played out in public because someone needed to be smacked back. That may not be what it...

Honestly it seems less like Chess and more like Dodgeball.

I don't know actually. Ultimately I think Wizards gets more out of DM's Guild than the more open publishing model. Not only do they get a cut, they also have more control over what gets published there. (In fact in some ways the leaked info about the 1.1 OGL made me think they were trying to...

In fact if they were to rescind the fan policy completely then I would assume that was exactly what they were going to do. They wouldn't rescind it otherwise - even if there's a fan site out there that is doing something they don't like but is technically allowed by the fan policy they can...

I forgot 5e didn't have this because I still use it :ROFLMAO:

I think that's the real key here. The board doesn't trust the executives that they've hired to actually run the company. A board that is involved in product decisions is a board that is micromanaging. That's not a good sign at all. Personally I think a lot of problems at Hasbro stem from the...

Ironically they probably have destroyed the OGL going forward faster and more completely than if they had gone through with their plans, which likely would have been a prolonged event full of potential litigation. It's a more subtle destruction, but the people who currently publish using it are...

Agreed. This is a "New Coke to Classic Coke" move, not 4d chess. They might be able to turn those lemons into lemonade, but it doesn't change the fact that they went out to pick apples and brought back a basket of lemons in the first place.

While a full-on reversion to 4e is unlikely (just like a full-on reversion to 3e or 2e or 1e is unlikely), if they actually get their VTT off the ground and start pushing it, I suspect that there's a good chance that we eventually get that "tactical module" for the game that was floated back...

As far as rules go? Warlords.

How do you "forgive" a company? It feels like the framing here is wrong. I could potentially forgive the people who made the decisions that blew everything up if they were asking me for it. But they aren't and they won't. I don't even know who those people are, and it's not like they've...

Or you know they could just not and reap the benefits of being on top of the edition with the largest playing base of D&D players that has ever existed. They have to measure whether or not making a massive change to try to force people to use their VTT would bring in more money than leaving the...

Wouldn't you want to look at the trademarks then? I'm pretty sure that if you separate the generic names that Wizards has for things from their specific implementation and apply them to a different concept, they couldn't do anything. Like if I use the name "beholder" for a humanoid creature...

Go ahead and pre-order the next Heroquest expansion that comes out whenever that is. Probably buy some of the new D&D books coming out this year now, rather than not. Watch the D&D movie when it comes out. Continue to play 13th age and go forward with my plan to get my group to try out Cypher...

Good. There's a need for a license that sits between CC-BY and CC-BY-SA to cover the space that the OGL covers. A share-alike license that allows you to mark out what you intend and do not intend to share is one of the things that is kind of unique to gaming and I personally think it's been a...

I'm not a lawyer by any stretch, but I'm pretty sure that you'd be allowed to do that with a CC-BY license anyway. The thing that prevented you from doing it under the OGL was the extra restrictions that Wizards put into using their Product Identity if you chose to use the license. Without...

Or 1D&D doesn't have its own SRD at all because they aren't changing most of the core game anyway. Which is why they originally hold back the classes, monsters and spells from being put under the CC-BY license because those are the things that they know are the most important to their changes...