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I think it's exceedingly likely that some source inside WotC has second-hand knowledge about both the price point and the idea of an AI-driven experience being mentioned in some meeting at some point. Why wouldn't they have been?

I think this DnD Shorts guy got the message about his lack of credibility and integrity hurting his cause. He's not a journalist, and he goofed by misquoting a source. It shows commendable self-awareness if he stops pretending to be a journalist now and goes back to being whatever he was...

I think you're right about this largely being about digital platforms. But we really shouldn't let them divide and conquer us piecemeal like that. You might be willing to trade away the rights of anyone making a VTT, but they certainly wouldn't. They, on the other hand, might be willing to trade...

You're free to leave this conversation if you think it's a waste of your time.

How's the weather like in Renton? :P

Or held up by pro-OGL 1.0 voices inside the organization as emphatic votes against any change, lending greater weight to their arguments. You don't know. I don't know. We don't know.

I disagree. There's a lot of orphaned content lost in that licensing structure now. If they can "deauthorize" the whole thing, we're not allowed to use any of it. And we're not allowed to use any of it under a new structure like the ORC either, unless the updated OGL expressly allows that. I...

The problem with the ORC is that we can't get orphaned works out of the old OGC commons without WotC being involved. It would have to be done through the ORC being an "update" to the OGL, which is a power that WotC actually holds. If WotC transferred their copyright and their right to update...

I think that kind of language on the cover goes against the spirit of the thing. I'd say they have a reasonable case that it would serve to reference their trademark specifically.

Why wouldn't they? They are the ones benefiting from sowing fear, uncertainty and doubt. Nobody is going to sue them proactively to stop them from this. Just look at your own response now. You're not only accepting this abuse, you're actively arguing that we should "negotiate".

Could there be a case for WotC's current actions alone amounting to tortious interference, with all the FUD? One guy on Twitter wrote that he had lost Patreon supporters over this debacle. There are Kickstarter projects in shambles right now, with backers leaving left and right...

It's a good thing that the OGL 1.0a expressly prohibits that, then!

I think it's the word "illithid" and not the concept of a mind flayer that they've specifically claimed as PI under the old OGL 1.0, which I've assumed to mean that they might claim it as an unregistered trademark. But nowadays, it seems like they think that banalities like owlbears and magic...

I want to know how they think they'll achieve that though. The "deauthorization" lie is the least favored even by the lawyers here who somehow think that WotC might be able to get out of this mess. Of course, for most practical purposes, they’d just need to convince places like Kickstarter and...

Infinitely many, in theory. There are probably infinitely many hypothetical OGL products that merely infringe on their new policies by including an owlbear somehow.

I'm not accepting any new terms. The license structure needs to stay intact, as represented by them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasonable_person

For a brand compatibility license or in a marketplace they control, absolutely. But if I'm handing out free OGL pamphlets with obscenities at a private sex club, I think it's the venue that should be allowed to set its own standards, potentially diverging from WotC's. I'm already barred from...

I have no interest in licensing material from WotC under any new terms. I’m interested in keeping my rights to all the OGC under current terms and with the licensing structure intact. This position is inclusive of your concerns, but yours are exclusive of mine. So the common ground here is to...

And you think this degree of censorship is even remotely reasonable? You're not only defending the CCA here, you're arguing that WotC needs to have dictatorial power that surpasses theirs because we have the internet.