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It would be easier to believe that was the They emphasize TWO changes to the OGL they're demanding. 1. Making the OGL void for electronic products, by restricting it to print gaming products only. 2. The "hate speech" clause giving them an open-ended blanket authority to revoke the use of...

I suspect that most of the common character classes and races that exist would be public domain. Most of the D&D races are from folklore long predating D&D, or are genericized versions of literary characters that also predate D&D. You can show inspiration from literature, history and folklore...

Good to know. I guess it sounds silly of me to ask in retrospect because it seems obvious someone would be doing it, but I'm fairly busy and only peripherally been able to keep track of this mess online with work and school and family stuff also going on so I hadn't seen the details about it...

While the fight over OGL 1.0a goes on, there is also the fact that it seems WotC will be releasing a lot of the generic "nuts and bolts" of the 5e system via a Creative Commons, albeit leaving out all the setting-specific elements for a fantasy RPG. Whatever their hostile intents towards the...

A LOT of this current saga feels like a sequel to the TSR era. The same attitudes, the same arrogance, the same failure to comprehend the gaming culture, even some odd little coincidental similarities like the company that makes D&D is run by a "Ms. Williams". “History never repeats itself...

The only plausible thing they could do at this point to rebuild trust is to release the 3.0, 3.5, Modern, and 5e SRD's (with all associated addendums like the Psychic and Divine addendums for 3.5 and the Arcane, Menace and Future addendums for Modern) into a Creative Commons license they have no...

Parody is protected free speech. If something was made as a parody of D&D it would have at least a little more protection than just a copy of D&D. I agree that the hateful content thing is a smokescreen, I think it's just a way for them to block publication of any work they don't want...

Yeah, but WotC doesn't care about any of that. To them, especially to current WotC leadership, the OGL is nothing but a license related to making D&D-derived works. The fact that it was used elsewhere in the industry for roles completely unrelated to D&D is something they absolutely don't care...

I'd go with Nephilim, the name for humans partly descended from angels and devils from real-world lore.

Given the sweeping claims some people have made in the name of fighting bigotry, I also absolutely do NOT trust WotC like that. Like this editorial in The Guardian from two years ago arguing the entire fantasy genre as we know it is inherently racist (It’s time for fantasy fiction and...

That's not a blessing, it's a curse. I remember before the OGL, before the d20 system and its derivatives. Every dang game out there had their own system. Most of them were awful. The skill set to make a good game system is completely different from creating a good setting. Open gaming and...

That anything they release from now on will only be released under that license. It's basically a "if you want to make stuff to support 6th edition, you have to use this license" license. Nothing more. It's not any kind of open license, and certainly nothing anybody in their right mind would...

I'm not contesting that, I'm just saying that someone acted like WotC hadn't gone around making any IP related claims to their materials since the OGL had come out. They absolutely have and will. They have been for companies that infringed on WotC specific art in ways that could be clearly...

Indeed, D&D was out in the open via the OGL before Hasbro ever bought WotC. Their due diligence before the buyout should have made it clear that one of WotC's two major properties, D&D (the other being M:TG of course) had much of its content out there under a copyleft license. They bought WotC...

Also, interestingly. . .the Internet Archive entry for the OGL FAQ on the WotC site shows it was up until November 2021. The FAQ where they promised that if WotC ever released a new version of the OGL then people could always use older editions. Then. . .it was quietly taken down without any...

Agreed completely, and if I may be honest, we aren't exactly inclined here to give WotC lots of trust and good faith. They just spent 22+ years of credit and good faith almost overnight by saying they intend to "de authorize" OGL 1.0a, and are probably eventually going to force someone to show...

For that price you could subscribe to an MMORPG of your choice. D&D Online is cheaper. So is WoW. So is just about any MMORPG.

The thing with the "racism" part is, that I've pointed out repeatedly, is that unless the conditions by which WotC can revoke a license for any kind of "bigoted" content is that it can be so open-ended that someone can find fault with anything. If it's purely at WotC's discretion. . .it's...

This. It elaborately tapdanced around the actual issue that was making people angry, trying to deflect attention away from that. It was an "apology" only in the most technical sense of the word.

Neither Chris Cocks nor Nathan Stewart isn't the head of WotC, Cynthia Williams is. . .who came to Hasbro from Microsoft where she worked on the XBox for a while, but before that she was an executive at Amazon for over a decade. Nothing on Ms. Williams resume says anything about prior...