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Yes, I was thinking of, for example, the use of the OGL by the Year Zero Engine, which stands alone and doesn't originate with the D&D SRD.

I think I follow your thinking there - they can't stop $publisher if $publisher is using the OGL directly from WotC (say, from the SRD) because it's WotCs license requiring you to reproduce WotC's copyrighted license text, but can potentially do if $publisher is using the OGL via a third party...

I absolutely agree this is the biggest problem - the actual legal position is purely academic if nobody can actually afford to fight it in court. I'd imagine a class action suit by a large number of 3PPs might work, possibly backed by crowdfunding, but I don't know how likely that would be...

I would hope (again, I may be expecting too much here) that the law would recognize that the binding terms of the license upon the third party publisher would mean attempt to prevent that reproduction through copyright litigation is in contradiction to the existing good faith agreement under...

I'm answering the question that asked about if they were to use their copyright of the OGL 1.0 to prevent anyone printing (and therefore using) it in the future. As their license agreement with $publisher already requires $publisher to reprint the OGL 1.0, any attempt by them to prevent the OGL...

The interesting conflict there is that the license itself requires you to reproduce it (section 10), which could possibly create a legal argument that they have created a paradoxical legal position by both requiring you to and preventing you from reproducing the OGL license text.

This is currently my own interpretation. If you never actually agree to the OGL 1.1 (or even read it in the first place), on what legal basis are you being bound by any text within it? Surely 1.0 continues its perpetual agreement until you make an alternative agreement via 1.1. Even if WotC...

No, the first criticism would be "wow, these people really suck for playing that way." He isn't saying that. He's saying "I dislike how the game was moving away from my own preferred playstyle." At no point does that indicate he doesn't think it's okay to play other ways, just that he doesn't...

I do see your point. However, I felt the above extract referred more to modern game systems than to players. Sure, many of us just throw out or house-rule over the parts that encourage math over roleplay, but the fact remains many modern systems have included more and more rules that -...

This. Just because one person likes one thing and dislikes something else, that shouldn't mean they need to expect attacks from the entitled dregs of the Internet. I dislike half the sports out there, but my stating that doesn't mean I'm somehow insulting them or the people that participate or...