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No. You're not. You're planning your heels and going "nuh-uh!!" And WotC will just walk around you. The cancelled subs gave WotC pause. But if they can't win those subs back or find a compromise, they'll consider them acceptable losses and do whatever the hell they want. WotC is off balance...

Gee, it's almost like the community should negotiate to force WotC to make the next license even more irrevocable and unalterable. include the word "perpetual" and such. We can look forward or we can look backwards. I know which is more productive....

But they don't have to live with it. They have the money and resources to remove it.

No. But expecting a billion dollar company to lose a legal fight is. And multiple lawyers have said it is. There's no consensus. It will depend on the judge and who has more desire to fight. And, really, WotC doesn't even need to fight. Because for the money a legal battle would take, they...

THEN DO SOMETHING TO STOP IT. Posturing about the OGL won't stop WotC yanking it. Right now you've tried nothing and are all out of ideas. Instead, the community could insist the replacement to the 1.0a OGL continues to protect those publisher's livelihoods or makes it even easier for them to...

They have lawyers and money and everything to lose. This isn't a fight. This isn't David vs Goliath, it's Batman vs a random thug in a pool of mud. Then you've already lost. The aspect of the community that cares about the OGL numbers in the thousands. Tens of thousands. D&D players are...

That doesn't mean it's okay to spread dubious rumours and pass them off as reliable as other previous rumours you reported.

That's not what I'm asking. WotC wants to take away the OGL. The community doesn't want them to take away the OGL. WotC is going to win that fight. So the community needs to surrender the OGL. To let WotC pull the license. But, having acknowledged that, they can ask for something else in...

THAT'S THE FREAKIN' POINT!!!! They want to take something. We need to ask for something that we didn't have before. But instead, everyone is just focused on what they're losing that they're not even stopping to consider what they could gain. What they could negotiate for. So they're just going...

The majority of accessories. Traditional 3PP. That's probably not what WotC is worried about. They're probably worried about major corporations doing D&D games using their rules for the corp's brands and IP. Competing products not compatible products. Because, as you say, you can produce an...

They gave us something in 2000, two years after Google was founded, before anyone shopped on Amazon, a few years after Marvel was bankrupt and when Phantom Menace was making people question if Star Wars was still good. At a time when TSR had gone under and TTRPPGs were a tiny industry. Before...

Because they're a business that needs to sell products to customers. There's lots of things businesses can "legally" do but don't because it's bad publicity. WotC could legally have their books made by hand by child slaves in SE Asian. But they're not going to... What are you giving in that...

That's not what he's saying. Major corporations aren't making RPGs now. The various 3PP aren't corporations, let alone major ones.

Yes, yes, we've all seen the Legal Eagle video and are now specialists in copyright law as it applies to games. 🙄 The point is text of the SRD is protected under copyright. You can make your own compatible game but you have to rewrite every single line of text, rearrange stat blocks, and...

But in practice, they can't. Because if they change things arbitrarily for the worse, people will just protest again and cancel subs.

WotC is going to do it. And then crush anyone who tries to argue otherwise. We've seen lawyers argue both points are valid, and WotC has the money to drag things out in court beyond another company's ability to pay. OR just buy-out anyone complaining. WotC dropped over $146 million for D&D...

Unsurprisingly, the YouTubers and content creators who have spent the last two weeks rolling in views over the controversy and being shared constantly all over the internet, are trying to keep the controversy going...

But the SRD has the rules. Which are the hard bit of making an RPG. People have been making D&D worlds and characters for almost 50 years but making balanced rulesets that people like playing? That's a challenge. There's a graveyard of RPGs that failed and have been forgotten. And making a good...

They can. But WotC doesn't need to make it easy for them and allow them to coast off of all their hard work and design.

Enough of it is given away for them to be worried, as the rules themselves are available.