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History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

I would actually be surprised if WotC initiated a lawsuit which had the potential to go really, really badly for them if it becomes a defining case for limiting the copyrights of TTRPGs, in addition to further demolishing their brand. But then again I did not think they would do all of the...

Well I guess we'll see if Hasbro is willing to truly burn the D&D brand to ashes, because I guarantee there will be multiple 5e-alikes as soon as ORC is finished.

I think you're severely overestimating how difficult it is to make a 5e-compatible game without infringing copyright. I don't think WotC will have much of a case to say "Yeah we own having 6 ability scores and also the numbers 1-20"

For me, I'll only "forgive"(in the sense of being willing to buy their products again) WotC if they put all their old edition SRDs and the OneD&D SRD into ORC. That's what it would take at this point.

This is basically the best possible news to come out of this debacle. Make no mistake, lots of people will still suffer because of WotC's decision, but this at least paves the way for a better future. I hope the drafters of ORC will also address some of the legitimate criticisms of the OGL...

To me this feels like saying "Well everyone is moving away from the coasts because of global warming so now is a great time to buy beach real estate."

I'm having a really hard time seeing #2 happening. Like, not only would that massively enrage a large portion of their own fanbase, some of whom have made it a personality trait to hate D&D, but it would be really weird for them to tie themselves to a company which clearly wants them dead...

Not going to speak for that poster, but to me, it's not so much "Harvard" as any Ivy League school, in the sense that, especially people in the legal profession who make a big deal about graduating from them, tend to be of a certain type, and let's just say the OA people are acting true to form.

As I said in another thread, the morale on the design team must be at an all-time low. Not as bad as the situation for 3PPs who just got screwed over, to be sure, but no one wants to work on a game that's now despised for reasons outside their control. And despite what some tropes about artists...

Regardless of what WotC eventually says, I have to imagine the morale on the D&D team is at a historic low. This is likely a dream job for many of them, getting to work on designing a D&D edition, and it's been utterly ruined by the clowns upstairs.

I think we're really well past the point where a single podcast can "turn the tides." For one thing, this started as a grassroots rejection of the leaked document, building from the community itself, not from influencers. And the thing is, people aren't really waiting to be told what to think at...

Oh believe me, I've spent time thinking about my 4e heartbreaker... hard to say if now is a good or bad time to work on that.

Yes, I liked it too, and while Pathfinder filled the void for people who wants a 3.x-style game, you could also say that if you wanted a 4e-style game... you just had to play 4e, it was really the only big TTRPG in its style. If I wanted to clone 4e, I'd have to write like 500 powers without...

As I said in another thread, I really think 4e's design was a double-edged sword. As many people liked it as hated it. 5e's deliberate inoffensiveness and "blandness"(I'm not using that as a criticism per se) is actively working against it here. When times were good, it worked well, few were...

This is exactly what I wanted to see happen. We need a new OGL which fixes the flaws of the original, provides a safe harbor, and can't be revoked.

I think they absolutely thought 3PPs would sign on. Let this be the year people start realizing you are not necessarily intelligent or good at making decisions just because you're wealthy or run a massive corporation.

Single license /= single competitor. Multiple games are good, multiple competing open licenses is not.

Considering Pathfinder has its own (smaller) satellite 3PPs which rely on their OGC, Paizo will have to use some form of OGL no matter what. I really hope the major 3PPs are talking together and present a unified front on whatever they decide to use for open gaming content.

Hmm, that sounds familiar...