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It's like coming home to find your spouse in flagrante delicto with somebody else; your trust is shattered and heart is broken. Your spouse takes off for a week, does not return calls, ignores your texts... and then comes home a week later, announcing that we didn't understand what we thought...

So now the point of the updated OGL 1.1 was to: 1 - stop hate speech and being nasty to minorities and LGBTQ; 2 - to stop NFTs; and 3- oh yeah, to stop "Big corporations" from using our IP. "We rolled a 1" But no, you can't say we lost and the other guy won. "We both won." Excuse me while I...

I didn't say that. They could continue with the initial part of it under 1.0a OGL, and further releases that relate to it under ORC -- or more likely, perhaps release it under both OGL 1.0a and ORC. My point: I think it is likely that we will ultimately see for 5e what we saw with PF1 in 2008...

So now we are back arguing that the 5.1 SRD published by WotC under the OGL 1.0a can be de-authorized? This is still their problem. It hasn't changed.

Maybe, but WotC spent $146,000,000.00 for DDB (the sheer size of that cheque for a RPG web-portal is something that we have become WAY too blasé about). That's a lot of dough to have spent. Perhaps the rational fall-back plan is to say: "we'll just rely on the strength of our product, and not...

To be fair, I think you'll be getting both. 6e from WotC, and 5.5 under the OGL/ORC from somebody else.

Gamemastery has not been around for more than a decade. So no. Mind you, some of that material continues to be published -- but it's PF branded.

This is the correct answer for PF2.

In terms of character gen? Significantly more complicated that 5e -- but 5e is uhm... well... on the simplistic side if it's vanilla core 5e. If you are playing with whistles on, Tasha and Xanathar's? More similar, but PF2 is still more complicated there. It's not as granular as PF1 though. I...

All true. HOWEVER, when Paizo goes out of their way to announce on their Blog, on Discord, Facebook, Twitter, and to the media that they are prepared to fight WotC in court over the de-authorization issue? I'm going to take Lisa Stevens at her word. I suggest that we all should. I'd play...

I think you under-estimate the financial resources of Paizo owner, Lisa Stevens by quite a bit. She was the 2nd largest shareholder in WotC when Hasbro bought it. She and Adkinson each got a veritable dump truck o cash from Hasbro, back-in-the-day. In the meanwhile, Paizo's been profitable...

I don't disagree with you about that; although I think the "Mathfinder" rep with PF2 is nowhere even close to the issue as compared to 5e that people think it is. They are really quite remarkably similar in terms of math that is actually applied during play. If you are using a Foundry character...

The practical answer is - it doesn't matter a fig what WotC says; it only matters what they do. And for that to matter, they have to take Paizo to court - and win.

The automation on PF2 in terms of rules (not in terms of auto-applying damage, which it does not do) is impressive: Cover, range, auto-calculated range penalties, a whole host of fiddly smaller rules -- it's all there and largely invisible. You can click the details button to verify it's being...

Likely, yes, assuming ORC does nothing to explicitly prohibit it.. There's nothing which prevents dual licensed material under the OGL 1.0a. This was canvassed in the "Lawyer heavy thread" earlier this week. In fact, as I recall, a few companies have already done this.

Yes, you did. Especially in Foundry. There is substantially less math with PF2 in Foundry VTT than there is with 5e. By a LOT. It's noticeable as you run it. PF2 in Foundry VTT is exceptionally well implemented. Yes, seriously.

Respectfully, there is no reason -- indeed, LESS THAN ZERO reasons with this announcement -- to think that this first point is true. Paizo has said, quite clearly, that the OGL 1.0a is not revocable and it will go to court if necessary to fight for that result. Unlike a myriad of small...

This is not a reasonable fear, imo, even if the most reasonable worst case scenario were to occur. Even then, that's not the way this works. A retailer can sell whatever it wants to sell, until such time that WotC obtains an injunction, on notice to the retailer, directly preventing the...

You are not wrong about either hunch; however, the extra cost of a jury trial is not crippling in my experience. Still, it is not trivial, either. If one of the parties is on a very tight budget? It matters!

A "bench judgment" is a judgment by a judge, not a jury. It is a term used in American law, where a civil trial by jury is frequent. In other common law jurisdictions, civil jury trials are available in only limited circumstances -- and increasingly, not available at all. And you are not...