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Legally, what I think Section 9 is inferring is that yes, you can release under OGL 1.0 or even an OGL 1.x as it will be authorized, but you CANNOT operate under the ABCGenericLicense1.0 as it has never been authorized in this line of Open Gaming Licenses and I bet if you go back to Ryan Dancey...

Unforunately, it is the ONLY way to prove the position of WotC/Hasbro wrong if their intent is nuclear lawfare.

Have you got millions upon millions of dollars to defend that position in a lawsuit file by WotC/Hasbro?

This is what happens when you put former Microsoft people in charge of something released under an open license. They have absolutely no understanding of how open licensing functions and consider it a virus to be wiped out from everything they were taught under Ballmer.

Chapter House fought all the way to the end. then they went bankrupt and are now no more. They did not enjoy a single benefit from their win. They went down. Games Workshop just could not fight the Nuclear Lawfare expensive enough to end them before it went to arguments. They also fought in...

If the leak was planned, then that gives WotC/Hasbro plausible deniability until they actually release it. Again, that ssumes WotC/Hasbro plan to go the Nuclear Lawfare route. The likelihood of that increases the longer WotC/Hasbro goes without commenting on the leak, IMO.

I would say that WotC/Hasbro would stand less than a 10% chance of winning if the right IP and contract attorneys were to actually argue the case before a judge in a court of law. WotC/Hasbro would never want a jury trial because their chance would likely drop to less than 1%. The problem is...

I would say we are likely six months away from the release of OLG 1.1 and the leak was a purposeful instrument to sew fear, uncertainty, and doubt before the document is ever released in full if, in fact, WotC/Hasbro has decided to engage in Nuclear Lawfare. The movie will be released. Honor...

It was. That is meaningless in today's overworked court system. It no longer matters which position is correct and which is not under the law if one side has much more funding than the other side. It's all about using legal instruments to force additional litigation cost on the opponent that...

What I am about to argue assumes that WotC/Hasbro has decided to declare Nuclear Lawfare. You are probably legally right. You would also be served a Cease and Desist letter when you publish your OGL 1.0a content, if anybody will let you publish it, that is (DriveThruRPG will likely not...

I had planned to go see it. Not any more, won't see it now.

Well, it appears teh stance of the Open Gaming Foundation is that OGL 10.a CANNOT have permissions changed because it includes it as a listed open game license and this is one of the requirements:

Like I've said, it's D&Done for me. I'll never buy into this, nor will I purchase anything from WotC/Hasbro regardless of how this all turns out. I moved to Pathfinder 1E with the introduction of 4E and can move elsewhere now. I'll carefully consider where and how, because I don't know if I can...

If lawfare is what they are up to, then WotC/Hasbro has become the Games Workshop of Parker Brothers.

Tom is an avid DM and not only has the core three, but multiple other rules books. Tom already has Strixhaven and is sure it wouldn't work for his group, but there are key elements in The Wonderlands of Amazement that he knows his group will like (considering Tom has stuff going back decades...

You're seeing it on the wayback machine.

Yeah, there was tons of RTF and JPG files from the 2E era on the site for years and years that came down in the revamps. You used to be able to get the original Ravenloft module for free that way, just the text in RTF and the illustrations and maps in JPG.

I said it earlier, Cynthia Williams may be the corporate reincarnation of Lorraine Williams only 1000 times more evil.

If lawfare is really their intention, then they are definitely trying to vindictively destroy the present ecosystem.