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Among other things, saying that what was formerly known as open game content is now known as licensed content.

The language of this license implicitly assumes that all previously-designated open game content is WotC property they can chose or not to license. This whole thing is at odds with reality. It's WotC saying all your base are belong to us.

Most of the uproar is over the fact that WotC is trying to close the bigger playground. They're not creating a smaller playground within a bigger playground. They're trying to close the playground (that the FAQ in the OP says they can't do), and replace it with a much more restrictive (and...

LOL

(Also, let's not forget that WotC isn't just saying "we get a cut" -- they're also saying "and we can reuse any of your stuff, forever, however we want, but we reserve the right to tell you that you can no longer sell your own stuff with only a 30-day notice".)

...if you're publishing PDFs or print books. For anything else -- which would include software services, including the VTT things that the person you're quoting was talking about -- WotC is saying "you can't".

Two things to keep in mind. First, TSR did go after fan sites in the 1990s, not with lawyers in person, but with cease & desist letters. Second, automated copyright enforcement is a thing and has been a thing for some time. It's not universal, it's capricious and (apparently) random, but...

I'm also amused that 40 is considered old, as in, beyond the pale old. I still buy a lot of stuff -- Starfinder has been most, though not all, of what I buy recently. But I do remember waiting for the release of the DM's Guide... the first one.

There already are fully open game systems. FATE, for instance, is available under a Creative Commons license, although FATE is an extremely different system from D&D, and while loved by some, is not everybody's ball of wax.

Regardless of their attempt to destroy the OGL 1.0a (which is what most of the furor now is about), the "O"GL 1.1 as we knew about it before was in no way an open license, despite the very deceptive name. (Indeed, I was already very grouchy about it because of the blatant attempt to claim...

I am also under the impression that Paizo has a pretty good relationship with the variety of 3pp that write stuff for Pathfinder and Starfinder. Them making a devil's bargain (or should I say a Cheliax bargain?) with WotC to allow them to continue while screwing over all their partner 3pp would...

I remember back some 20 years ago or so when Grey Ghost Games was working on releasing a version of Fudge with a formally open license. (There'd been some sort of Fudge license before, if memory serves, but they wanted to go with something standard.) At the time, I really thought they should...

Most of my gamebooks are a pile of shame. The ones I've bought a lot of books for I've played, true. But, even though I've played a lot of Pathfinder, I have a lot of pathfinder modules and APs that I've never played. (This is my main reason for not buying into pathfinder 2e; I still have so...

(If you recognize my avatar, you might think I'm obsessed with the 1990s....)

I remember how back as a teenager in the 1980s, it seemed like a lot of culture was obsessed either with the 1950s or the late 1960s. (Which one you were obsessed with depended mostly on your political bent.) This included my peers, who by and large were born in the late 1960s (or early...

Nice makeup job making him look a lot older, too! (Four Weddings and a Funeral was just made a couple of years ago, right?)

For most games, that forward would not be relevant, but....

JD Smith1 -- when you say that the liberal arts is a questionable "field" to enter and "It all boils down to supply and demand....", in my opinion you're thinking about it all wrong in exactly the way that I say college students, and much of society thinks about it all wrong. Implicit in these...

Mental toughness is what you're supposed to get out of a degree. Too many college students think that college is job training. And, yes, there are vocational schools out there. But that's not what a college education (as in liberal arts sorts of things -- and, yes, computer science fits into...