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1) The mis-directon of releasing content to the Creative Commons license which comes with its own set of problems without specifying precisely what will be released that way. It could be completely useless and is just a misdirect. 2) The VTT policy is geared to put every other VTT in the market...

We have no clue what will actually go in Creative Commons. It will probably be so void of any rhyme or reason as to be completely useless.

Believe that if you like, I see this as worse than the non-draft.

I think if they see another Paizo rising up, they will declare their content hateful and since they agreed to the OGL, they cannot take it to court or disagree with it in any way. There is no way to appeal what they declare to be hateful content.

That is precisely what they are trying to do.

I think this version of a new OGL is perfectly fine with any SRD beyond 5.1. I would never sign it, but they are perfectly within their rights to do that. 5.1 was released under OGL 1.0a and I do not buy them being capable of "de-authorizing" it. If they stay on that road, this definitely goes...

Amendment VII to the United States Constitution disagrees with you: "In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States...

That is what they are trying to do. And they cannot do it because 5.1 under the OGL 1.0a is STILL on their own site: https://media.wizards.com/2016/downloads/DND/SRD-OGL_V5.1.pdf If you don't have a copy, I suggest you download it ASAP.

This is going to court if they deauthorize OGL 1.0a

This license is worse than the not-draft, IMO/.

I wasn't minding my $5.99 Master Tier for D&D Beyond until I canceled over this mess, but $30 seems a line to far to me. YMMV.

Looking forward to checking out Pathfinder 2E. Played Pathfinder 1E for years.

I would call this DNDINO, D&D In Name Only.

Maybe, but I doubt it. I think they want anything and everything 5E pulled from the market and will use threat of suit to accomplish it.

Disagree completely on your take of the current SCOTUS.

They were working on 4E and were planning on circumventing it any way. Nobody was maintaining the OGL, either. The team that worked on the OGL had left. Two members of the original OGL team are leadership of Pazio today. Jim Butler is the CEO and Lisa Stevens is an owner of Paizo and both worked...

All I can say is the GPL 2, which was the basis for OGL 1.0a, had the term "perpetual" and not the term "irrevocable" and it has certainly withstood the test of time and court tests. The term "irrevocable" did not enter into the GPL until GPL 3 in 2007, and numerous works are still released...

Interesting clause. How can he enforce it?

See, I have no problem with companies doing that where closed licensing is involved. It's their right and any other company has a right to tell them to shove their licensing terms they're not going to do business with them. Open licenses? Not so much. Of course as everybody knows, what...

So words on a piece of paper are the equivalent of poison. Got it.