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  1. Xyxox

    Hello, I am lawyer with a PSA: almost everyone is wrong about the OGL and SRD. Clearing up confusion.

    1) I'm as old as he is. 2) He IS connected to every third party provider in the industry that is worth anything big. 3) He has people working for him that have worked for WotC, Paizo, Goodman Games, etc. 4) Think whatever you want, this is real, it is happening, and people better get prepared...
  2. Xyxox

    Hello, I am lawyer with a PSA: almost everyone is wrong about the OGL and SRD. Clearing up confusion.

    He owns and operates Roll For Combat Battlezoo Online Shop He was not considered big enough to be offered one of these contracts so unlike all the big 3pp, he is not under NDA.
  3. Xyxox

    Hello, I am lawyer with a PSA: almost everyone is wrong about the OGL and SRD. Clearing up confusion.

    It was not a draft, it was an actual contract they wanted signed onto. If somebody signed their contract and the OGL 1.1 is not released as that was included to induce the signature, then WotC has engaged in fraud to get a signature on a contract. That's why they must release it or they face...
  4. Xyxox

    Hello, I am lawyer with a PSA: almost everyone is wrong about the OGL and SRD. Clearing up confusion.

    He's not speculating. Teh community of third party producers is small and everybody knows everybody else. People working for him wrote Pathfinder 2E. He knows the owner of Paizo. He's not revealing precisely where information came from, but he and people he knows have contact with everybody in...
  5. Xyxox

    Hello, I am lawyer with a PSA: almost everyone is wrong about the OGL and SRD. Clearing up confusion.

    BOOM! It's hitting Mainstream media: https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/gaming/how-dnd-open-gaming-license-changes-will-impact-other-ttrpgs/ar-AA164K6Z
  6. Xyxox

    Hello, I am lawyer with a PSA: almost everyone is wrong about the OGL and SRD. Clearing up confusion.

    It was based on his inside knowledge of Paizo. He stated outright the best chance the community has is Paizo fighting it and that there is a good chance they will, but did caution there is also a small chance they just sell the company to WotC to avoid the fight. He has also said that there are...
  7. Xyxox

    Hello, I am lawyer with a PSA: almost everyone is wrong about the OGL and SRD. Clearing up confusion.

    There is also a tiny chance Paizo sells to WotC as it would make sense for WotC to buy them.
  8. Xyxox

    Hello, I am lawyer with a PSA: almost everyone is wrong about the OGL and SRD. Clearing up confusion.

    Looking like Paizo will be fighting this. Sounds like a very good chance of them doing it any way.
  9. Xyxox

    Hello, I am lawyer with a PSA: almost everyone is wrong about the OGL and SRD. Clearing up confusion.

    And I will never buy a product from any of those who sign. Your mileage may vary.
  10. Xyxox

    Hello, I am lawyer with a PSA: almost everyone is wrong about the OGL and SRD. Clearing up confusion.

    Gut instinct. It already went out attached to contracts to convince third parties to sign the sweetheart deal. If even one of those contracts has been exercised, they MUST release it, it all comes down to when and how.
  11. Xyxox

    Hello, I am lawyer with a PSA: almost everyone is wrong about the OGL and SRD. Clearing up confusion.

    OMG! They want ANYBODY doing podcasts about D&D that make money YOU HAVE TO REPORT YOUR EARNINGS TO WotC/Hasbro! ANYTHING AT ALL ON D&D YOU MUST REPORT INCOME TO THEM!
  12. Xyxox

    Hello, I am lawyer with a PSA: almost everyone is wrong about the OGL and SRD. Clearing up confusion.

    It will be easy to tell what third parties sold out the community for thirty pieces of silver. My guess is Critical role probably did because they probably got the best deal of all, but time will tell.
  13. Xyxox

    Hello, I am lawyer with a PSA: almost everyone is wrong about the OGL and SRD. Clearing up confusion.

    I am firmly convinced they are still going to do it, they are just regrouping on how to implement. This will be locked up in courts for years.
  14. Xyxox

    Hello, I am lawyer with a PSA: almost everyone is wrong about the OGL and SRD. Clearing up confusion.

    It wasn't a draft. It was a final version. It was attached to multiple contracts sent out to large third party creators with contracts that were sweetheart deals before Christmas. The only reason it is not in force right now is it was leaked before it was released and WotC/Hasbro blinked. See...
  15. Xyxox

    Hello, I am lawyer with a PSA: almost everyone is wrong about the OGL and SRD. Clearing up confusion.

    Based upon what was revealed here: Ogl 1.1 is real, it was planned to be released on the 4th with sign on required by the 13th. It was attached to contracts they sent out to big third party companies with the idea being they get the big third parties to sign on to sweetheart contracts and OGL...
  16. Xyxox

    Hello, I am lawyer with a PSA: almost everyone is wrong about the OGL and SRD. Clearing up confusion.

    This, folks, is what is known as Nuclear Lawfare. It's completely legal and is how larger corporations have been sticking it to smaller corporations for decades upon decades. If the smaller litigant has enough, it can become a mutually assured destruction scenario, but it requires a major amount...
  17. Xyxox

    Hello, I am lawyer with a PSA: almost everyone is wrong about the OGL and SRD. Clearing up confusion.

    EVERY early version of open source software licensing used the term perpetual. Ryan Dancey and WotC/TSR chose to use that licensing as a model for the OGL. As things changed, attorneys determined the use of the word irrevocable was a better way to define the license lives forever and cannot be...
  18. Xyxox

    Hello, I am lawyer with a PSA: almost everyone is wrong about the OGL and SRD. Clearing up confusion.

    I don't intend to prove his argument wrong because I think there is about a 95% chance it would absolutely win in any court of law in the United States and I agree with it 100%. That's why I ask about the funding because that is what it will take to get it before any court in the United States...
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