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It absolutely is. One of the world's great Newspapers - and the UK's leading lefty newspaper of record.

ahem It's certainly not defunct, it's just mostly less visible now.

To the extent that WotC has competition, Paizo is certainly the largest. To be sure, Paizo has played a more effective role as a competitor in the marketplace in the past than they are right now. Still, Paizo isn't giving up. Abomination Vaults for 5e, as well, would be the next most important...

You got me there. ¯\(ツ)/¯

It was literally a blog post -- which could have a legal evidentiary effect, depending on. So yeah, not just a blog.

No argument. I've done it, too. Hell, when it comes to a post, I do it FAR more often than not. But when it comes to legal documents? Those things tend to be a case of "bullet leaves the chamber". It's different when you own the website, as opposed to "file the pleading", I suppose. I do think...

It can, when there is a difference in opinion by the boss of who approved it. I expect that is all it is.

Real-time. That was the work of someone who had it under watch via RSS alerts. The user created the tracked changes. See the post here. My guess is that PR went with the post it thought was fine, it was approved by a more junior lawyer at WotC's in-house counsel, and then a more senior lawyer...

This GEM comes from this post on the DNDnext subreddit: WotC was actually editing this post on DDB in real time as it went live. Look at the tracked changes that were made to it. Amazing!

There is, of course, an easier path and something that shouldn't be hard either as a stop-gap while using it as a "defender brand". Just buy Foundry VTT, FFS, and contract the guy to stay on and provide non-competes in the usual manner, etc.. That would have been much wiser. Likely cheaper...

Because just the hint of the true cost of trying to doing both caused them to remove the unsubscribe button on DDB last night; to stop their customers from walking away. Turns out: You can't do both without eroding your brand and your sub-culture; and that erosion can be measured in dollars...

Forgiveness is not the same as trust. Assuming (without deciding) that I could forgive them, I will never trust them again. "Never" is a Big Word; I do not use it casually.

" I can't really make heads or tails of your apology, but let me say this: you have entered treacherous waters entirely of your own volition. Literally just turn around, and walk back out." The old adage that "free advice is worth what you pay for it"? Yeah, well, it's an adage, not a law of...

This is the thorny issue of keeping a 6th ed that is backwards compatible out of Foundry's (and other VTT's) hands. If you can't de-authorize a VTT, they can keep coming back through supporting other and near clone OGL based compatible systems -- they keep coming back and going like an Energizer...

Released this afternoon on Foundry VTT's Website here. This morning, Wizards of the Coast shared a statement regarding their intention to update the OGL. We will leave a critique of this statement to others in the community, but we want to emphasize a few important notes. The efforts made by...

I have been saying all along this is really about Foundry (or the "next Foundry", whatever that ends up being). They want the VTT for 6e locked down and to offer the only 6e VTT space at a subscription prince. When gamers can go elsewhere for a non-sub price, many will. They don't want that...

This is exactly it. Nothing has changed. This is still a problem for WotC and nothing said today gets them out of this issue going forward. In order to get around it, they have to make 6e less compatible with 5e than they initially preferred, or they are back in the soup. I'm not sure they can...

Oh I agree that having WotC to have the rights to use 1.0a OGL content on DDB to be able to resell it without concern was always in the best interests of gamers. I said as much. But when you go further and express that as a transfer of ownership, it's a lot of problems. Those problems were...

EXACTLY.

No, that's not it. The OGL 1.0a already provided WotC protection to use 1.0a OGL material on DDB without needing to compensate anybody. They ALREADY get to sell your stuff without compensation - that's the OGL 1.0a., which is something that a LOT of people here didn't understand when they were...