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Exactly - it's not like using "Mind Flayer" to describe a psychic aberration of some kind is somehow protected anyway. The OGL prevented you from using it because it's product identity. But once this stuff went out under a CC-BY Wizards lost their ability to dictate what you can and cannot use...

I mean, this is basically what Stranger Things did with their Mind Flayer.

For that you have to continue to publish it psuedononymously on a website full of fanfiction, as God intended.

So here's the thing - if they release the 3.x SRD under a CC-BY license then there is no need for us to worry about this anymore. Because the reason it is a problem is because Wizards could claim they were deauthorizing the license for everyone putting all of those works and the material shared...

You ain't the only one. Also I figured even if they did back down it would be "back down to status quo ante." "Put the core rules essentially into the public domain" is so far beyond where I thought they'd go it literally wasn't even on the bingo card.

One the one hand it's amazing that they didn't catch that and create a 5.2 SRD. They've been so protective before. On the other hand - I have to say that they've been really, really overly precious with some of these things over the years and they really don't need to be. How much is gained by...

The 3e SRD should be released to CC-BY as well. The overlap with the 5e SRD is substantial already and it's already been through the process of SRDing. The 4e SRD, on the other hand, would have to be constructed before it could be released. The SRD that they actually released had no game rules...

Not with CC-BY. With CC-BY you are free to use the material and not share your own material if you want. You just have to attribute it. CC-BY is almost like using public domain works (CC0 is as close to public domain as you can get because it doesn't even require attribution). CC-BY-SA is a...

For 5e creators releasing under the CC-BY should pretty much cover them. Legally they now have MORE freedom to use the material not less. For folks using the 3e SRD, they should still go through de-OGLifying their material IMO. Wizards isn't going to do anything in the near term because holy...

I gave them similar advice in mine, though instead of GSL for oneD&D I said go back and look at the d20STL for their creator badges. It's likely that it would work better in the digital world than it did back in the day, especially since those logos are more clearly "D&D" logos than the old d20...

I mean, intentionally fragmenting the game at this point would be stupid. They do dumb things so I'm not saying it's out of the question, but it would be really dumb to do so. I think it's more likely that they realized that there's no way to get the growth they need to maintain with the storm...

Somehow they managed to exceed my best case scenario. Entire 5.1 SRD under a CC-BY license is amazing. A license under control of a third party is actually better that I could have possibly expected. All of it including all of the spell and monster names and class mechanics. They attempted to...

Well you've just suggested a Lasers and Feelings hack I haven't heard of, so this is definitely getting played.

Yeah, I'm already not planning on running any more "learn to play D&D" sessions for the kids. And my own kid is a DM and is thinking about what system they want to switch their own game to. One thing that Wizards hasn't considered is that every DM is a potential author/publisher. We all have...

As someone (I think it was Snarf) pointed out to me, if they call it anything other than "OGL" then section 9 of the current OGL can't be applied and that's where their new claim that they can "deauthorize" the OGL comes from. So even though the license they've proposed isn't an open one by any...

I know right? It's like "you realize you guys JUST did a smaller version of all of this not so long ago and it didn't work, right?" But of course corporate execs can't learn from other people's mistakes (even though that's literally one of the things an MBA is supposed to be able to teach you...

If Wizards decided that the way to make the "D&D brand" protectable was to merge it with MtG and bring over a whole lot of "protectable elements" into the game I would love to see what happened. My prediction is that they would kill the brand hard by doing it. Because part of the reason that...

This is absolutely right but my existential dread about my own crippling mortality didn't want to go that far and have to grapple with the consequences of that thought :ROFLMAO: Ironically I'm sure that's a part of what they thought they were doing. I think that's a part of their morality...

I was expecting either this, or C7 abandoning their d20-based games completely. Not sure which way they'd go, but this is actually the better route IMO. As far as "compatibility" is concerned - honestly if all of these companies stick to the general rules that Wizards labelled as potentially to...

If by "good amount of time" you mean "a year" then sure - IIRC Tunnels and Trolls came out within a year of TSR publishing their little books. I think even if you call the initial self-publication of Ken St. Andre's game too narrowly distributed to count, it's less than 5 years between the...