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Maybe. It's not at all clear to me what the arrangement is. It may be that they are an explicit licensee that pays a royalty, etc.. All of that might be true. But that isn't what that press release says, okay?

You need to read it. That's just the 1.0a, it's royalty free. I linked to it.

I don't believe that's the tradition on the criminal side of the common law; still, that's because the U.K. does not have a constitution, it just pretends it does. As a Canadian lawyer in his late-50s, I remember a time when we tried to pass out the "unwritten constitution" Kool-Aid, too. We...

PF1, that is. PF2 is very different -- much more like 5e, but with far more character options. PF2's action economy is a true innovation though.

We know their employee numbers though -- and WotC's D&D employees, too. That tells you all you need to know. At D&D's nadir, they were down to about 6 (SIX) full-time employees at WotC working on D&D. Paizo's full-time employees were at about 80. C'mon. You can't be sure? Really? Really? This...

I'm not blaming TA & Solasta. I like the game a lot. I am, however, trying to see WotC's point of view here and their reasonable commercial interests -- and that one would push me over the cliff on the OGL. The rest I might ignore -- but not that.

Looking online, they are simply sheltered under the 1.0a 5.1 SRD. It's royalty free. Am I missing something? Solasta: Crown of the Magister Yeah, that stone in my WotC shoe is still there it seems.

Do they? Someone mentioned they did not and it was under the SRD only. If so? Never mind? :P

That would be a fair assessment.

You might be right. I don't know if VTT licensing is what is motivating them now -- but I freely admit that it is a distinct possibility. I only play via VTT and have for more than a decade. I was an early-adopter and felt like a lonely evangelist for a long time in the 20-teens. When...

Peter had ~6% more shares than she did (she had more than 40%). They both walked away with nearly $150m+ each. It wasn't Pathfinder $$ that built her Star Wars memorabilia collection (the largest in the world). That was M:TG, Pokemon and the tap patent. If you Google it, her home & Star Wars...

Oh FFS. HERE is what I know: After 4e was announced - WotC bailed on GenCon; After 4e, Pathfinder sales took off with a bullet. So did the message traffic here. It was the game that mattered here when D&D didn't. Or did you think that 1.2 million messages happened by accident? After 4e - ICV2...

I don't believe those numbers. And the only people who do? Are on ENWorld. This is pro-D&D site to an unreasonable degree at times.

It was a privately owned gaming company owned by Peter Adkinson and Lisa Stevens, the owner and founder of Paizo Inc. -- and the single largest user of the OGL, by far. [fixed that for you]

While it has nothing to do with the legal argument, the facts and how they strike the judge hearing a case in terms of equity do matter. Justice is complicated; injustice, however, is an emotional reaction to a set of facts. It's visceral. How those facts appear to the consumer market is...

Exactly. This further discussion of state-by-state American law on how it might resolve an action this way and that way in a given U.S. state concerning the 1.0 OGL is laughably myopic American navel gazing. The vast majority of activity under the OGL is via .pdf. There is no way to...

I have been practicing law for 28 years now. I don't agree with this statement. At all. I think it is wrong in law. Now, that does not mean that WotC could not get MANY parties to agree to the terms of a new contract, which includes provisions which, through express agreement, has the explicit...

Patreons and Photoshop are ~65 to ~75 a month DDB sub + books? Random software and Drive Thru stuff. Call that at least another $50 or so, on average, a month. It's at least $100 CAN on average a month and sometimes higher. Call it ~$125 x 12 = $1,450 a year? Might be higher, but that's close...

You are in New Zealand, right?

Nope. I have never paid a nickel towards VTT specific rules. I run Foundry (prior to that, it was D20 Pro). These are comments not directed at "VTT libraries", but to Roll20 and Fantasy Grounds.