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I find it very likely that GR will ditch OGL if forced to 1.1 or nothing.

My memory of that is that they did not lose. I'd have to go reread, it's been 30 years.

Citations, please.

This all falls to the enforceability of the believed perpetual license access and/or WotC's current belief they can revoke it. If it is perpetual, there is absolutely nothing preventing this action. If WotC's argument holds, that adventure book better be third-party ( not Ghostfire ) OGC-free.

There seemed to be an assertion of a lack of experience being an issue in the post I originally responded to. It was not the case. Not to mention that Paizo had plenty of more current experience from publishing previous OGL material.

Lisa was part of WotC when they published books before Magic was folded back into WotC. She ran the Cryptych magazine and was responsible for a couple of the "make a book" roles in the Talislanta 3rd edition rulebook. There may also be credits in other Talialnta and Primal Order books. While...

Under that name? Yes. WotC published books when Lisa was there...

Evil Stevie has a store and enjoys a good windmill tilt.

Unless you have accepted a legal agreement that says you won't do it....

Pagan wasn't exactly a strong competitor when they started Delta Green. For that matter, neither was Chaosium. And Greg just wasn't that kinda dude.

The only tactical error that was made with the OGL, from a money-grubbing perspective, was not binding it to the D20 STL. This would have prevented Pathfinder but allowed most everything else. I'm not sure what you're going for here.

That status change... new?

I'm thinking a backdoor contract between them.

Regardless of whether or not they can unilaterally declare it unauthorized ( including for contracts they aren't a party of?! ) they can indeed press you to agree it is unauthorized in a follow-up contract. My

I mean, the only major D20STL revocation I can recall does more than a bit to support that statement. FauxSR didn't help.

My memory of the conversations at the time - those are backed up somewhere in old Eudora boxes - was that this was a bonus, not a primary feature as the main goal was to get 3pps building adventures and other products that were not profitable at the WotC scale but are part of the health of the...

Yeah. Much of this is varying degrees of revisionist, though not fundamentally incorrect.

I would say you are wrong, though that might be an individual difference of opinion on whether something is a direct or indirect benefit. :)

At most? Probably a lot fewer purchasing options.

Well, they certainly wouldn't be the only ones...