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The only way I can see a morality clause being acceptable is if the 1.0a is preserved so that people who don't want to go along with Hasbro's Wild Ride can ignore it and keep making stuff with the old SRD. To be fair, that's pretty much been my stance on literally everything WotC has tried to...

True. A more effective way of making the survey less useable would be to set up an auto-roller to generate random responses, weighted to group results just enough so that it doesn't look like random responses to an algorithm.

I was talking more from how little the community would gain from such a clause compared to what we'd lose from WotC being allowed to deauthorize 1.0a, but yeah, that too.

Nope. 1.0a gets protected explicitly. Then they can have whatever other clauses they want for future SRDs. NFTs are a non-issue because they're already widely known to be a scam. Racism in the context of an open content license is a non-issue because the larger community is already pushing...

I'm not boycotting the D&D movie because I think Hasbro sucks and is targeting the industry that helped make D&D as big as its gotten. I'm skipping the movie because it looks like trash. I don't want a "har har, it's like they're from an actual gaming table" movie. That was one of the big...

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Maybe, but it could also go the other way and make people trust ORC less. I for one, don't want Hasbro's lawyers within longbow distance of the actual creation of the ORC license. I want ORC to be better than the OGL, not just the same thing with different stewards.

I've been as harsh on WotC as anyone over all this, and even I have to say that it's unrealistic for WotC to agree to being bound by a license that hasn't even been written yet. They need to focus on salvaging the OGL (and by that I mean walking back the revocation of 1.0a and strengthening it...

The important thing to remember about NFTs is that they are very, very stupid. Someone could just take a screenshot of the OGL and make an NFT out of that. Of course the other important thing to remember is that WotC definitely wasn't actually thinking of NFTs when they were writing the new OGL.

I authorize the OGL for all who wish to use it, but only on business days between the hours of 7:35am and 4:00pm Tokyo time. After that, I only authorize for people who buy me a beer first.

Good. That's what the OGL is for. Not letting the whims of a corporation prevent publishers from using the OGL as originally drafted.

Probably because we've made it over 20 years on the OGL without the D&D brand being damaged by anyone other than WotC. Yeah, it's hard for me to take anything they say - especially when it comes to intentions or espoused beliefs - at face value after this debacle. I'm 100% assuming that any...

In a sense, maybe. I could see the day when I might buy D&D products again. But it won't be soon, and it likely won't be while it's under current leadership. The fact that they (according to a leak) were going to put out an official announcement today and then cancelled that announcement...

Meanwhile, in the WotC PR department...

If this takes off, we're heading into best case scenario territory. I definitely see some purchases in my future coming up.

Reminds me a bit of Palladium's Heroes Unlimited. There was one power - I think it was Control Elemental Force: Fire - that had an ability called Nova (IIRC) that let you essentially turn into a superheated ball of death for a short time before burning out and pretty much being done for the...

I'll let Jim Carrey field this one for me. "Hey Jim, what does the new OGL let you do? If you could use a movie quote to illustrate your point, that'd be great." "Thanks, Jim"

That's some major hyperbole you go going on there, not to say more than a little /r/hailcorporate. The OGL cat is out of the bag, and it massively grew the industry. As long as the OGL stands, we're not going back to the days where the industry hangs by D&D's thread. At worst, we'd go back to...

Let me just say: I'm not opposed to Hasbro trying to put royalties into an agreement for editions going forward. Just like with the GSL, publishers can decide whether it's worth it or not. But I am 100% against any attempt to tamper with or revoke the existing OGL by any means at all. The OGL...

It's not meant to be a 1:1 analogy. There are substantive differences beyond what you brought up. The point is that both got as big as they did because they have relationships with potential competitors that ensure that even sales toward other stores/publishers lead customers back to them...