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I believe that many individuals at WotC probably warned others that this was a bad idea. I'm sure many felt the same way we did. I even believe that some individuals may now have realized how they were on a bad path and might have changed their minds. In the interview, Kyle seemed mostly...

No, they had intentions of releasing an absurdly restrictive license that we even saw drafts of it. Their 180 is 100% due to their customer base before mad. You can't really argue that they had the intentions from the start to be the good guys and release the SRD under CC, it just wasn't the...

And WotC profited from that ecosystem at least as much as the ecosystem did their product. It's mutualism. Sorry but no. They did not try to reel back some of their rights, the draft that was leaked had some absolutely outrageous clauses by almost any measure. I mentioned it in another thread -...

They never had the intention to do so. They did so after threatening a whole ecosystem and hobby leading into tens of thousands of people yelling at them. If people hadn't yelled, things would be very different. The leadership of twenty years is not the leadership of now. Same branding...

Matt has shown that he appreciates the qualities of 4E. Hard to say how much MCDM's game will pull from it, but color me interested.

There's a few of us apparently. I just dived back in my Conan anthology a few days ago. I'm reading the short stories in one of the many proposed chronological order.

But moving on can be very healthy.

I'm not getting back on board with them. They broke the trust. This fight was not to save them, it was to save the ecosystem. I'll stick around with the 3rd party creators, retroclones, endless zines and microrpgs and let the big corporation sell movies, mugs, shirts and garbage plastic...

The craziest odds I've seen are last year. I don't exactly remember the context, but three rolls in a row (few seconds apart, from three different players) landed on 20. It was a dramatically important moment. I was hopping around and losing my naughty word. "What are the odds!"

Not running anything at the moment, but will imminently. Last year I've forked into several systems, some pretty dense, and I need something more lightweight coming into 2023. I read Cairn during the holidays, and I bought a few short sandbox adventures for it. I'm not prepping one of these and...

This is the bare minimum I'm willing to accept from there. If they want to move forward alone without all the creators, they can do so. At least everything that was published in the past is not nuked out of existence. But the problem is that trust has been broken. If they can change the OGL...

You can't be sure of 80% of what you're saying in there. We've had lawyers, involved individuals and companies proclaim things on every point of the legal continuum. The main takeaway from this whole affair is that we just don't know. And WoTC will exploit this legal ambiguity and the shadow...

If by industry you mean the major players that employ many employees and operate as corporations and have products on shelves all over the world, I think it's unlikely but possible. If by industry you mean everyone making TTRPGs, hell no. In this day and age, someone on the other side of the...

Don't very popular systems already use other licenses like Creative Commons? I remember reading that Mork Borg had some 1500 third-party products made for it.

You can forgive an individual. Forgiving a business that's owned by an hyper-capitalist entity is foolish in my opinion. What we've seen is what that corporation is and will be. It has reached that point. It is beyond it. The CEO and the executive might change, but the shareholders will still...

Kevin Crawford of Stars Without Numbers and World Without Numbers has discussed the situation a little bit on Reddit too. His username is CardinalXimenes. Here's the thread:

The clauses in the 1.1 are incredibly restrictive and undesirable. It's not much of a choice.

Not much of a bone when effective January 2023 they can't print or sell products. Royalties on no sales are pretty low.

I think open-gaming is important because it opens the door and democratizes access to creation to other type of individuals, with different ideas. Individuals that probably wouldn't have their place in businesses that must make money to keep doing. These independent developers are an important...