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The clearest poison pill is the morality clause which they get to define at will. If they allowed the use of their brands and trademarks (which 1.0a does not), then I can buy that. Otherwise something is beating them and they find a forum post 10 years old and pull the product.

First glance, what they cannot actually copyright they are issuing under Creative Commons. Then they make dubious and overreaching claims on things that they probably cannot copyright and are sweeping into OGL 1.2 which has various poison pills. And they are deauhtorizing 1.0a. Nope.

If it were just me, I would have pulled away from Wells Fargo completely. It is family entanglements (my kids in college and all the links to follow up on money) that have stopped me and that is ending reasonably soon.. Which is the issue many people have with D&D - as much as one person may be...

There are large numbers yelling on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube as well. Even accounting for the filters that reinforce whatever you click on.

I don’t buy VW products and will not. I bank at Wells Fargo personally but I avoid them professionally and am planning on moving my banking once I get a chance to detangle the several decades I have with them. I do warn people away from them. There is another bank that I had a bad experience...

WoTC whacked one company for copyright violation that was using the OGL in the early days. I remember because Jim Ward was involved and one of the copyright violations was for Drawmij. Which is his character via his name spelt backwards …. That company had to destroy the books still in stock.

I have zero objections to a standard and accepted clause of it ties to a brand or specific company. The more open the license is, the less it probably is needed. I don’t recall GPL saying no porn servers can be run using our license.

We will see if ORC has one and what is says. I am pretty sure that even a mild one will provoke outrage. You just have to bounce over the the other forum we share and see the latest video by that site owner to see …

They are adults and they can choose to work there or go elsewhere. If they get fired for speaking out then they will get severance or have the courts to appeal to for damages. If they quit, then that is their choice. If I were tossing cash around to help someone it would be for a legal fund to...

Again, please quote my entire post. You are clipping my opening sentence and then arguing like I said that I want the OGL changed because of that lofty sentiment. “I do think that blaming the OGL and insisting it be modified is wrong and does not tie to any reasonable or actual scenario and...

The very next part of my post says the same thing. That does not change the fact that wanting a safer gaming space is good. The leaked 1.1 license makes it clear that it allows a logo / designation that makes materials much more official and linked to D&D the brand. In that scenario, a company...

I have never played the system. Does that mean I am boycotting it? I have Ptolus by that company (original and newer 5e versions) but I don’t have anything else by them and never have tried them. I am the main GM in my group and just never looked into it. There are so many RPG out there .. But...

I went and looked at the Cypher license. First, it is not irrevocable, so it has the main issue that the OGL may have. Second, you can declare your products to be Cypher compatible and use a logo that stays that. That is a direct tie in to the brand which the OGL does not have...

That license is much newer and has had that clause in it from the beginning. When the OGL was done, such a clause was not there. WoTC burnt trust doing a bunch more than throwing in a morality clause. It also is a system with not much 3rd party content. Maybe extra clauses chase people away? I...

What does me saying I cannot understand it say that I am pushing to be right?

Again, there is zero is what I wrote that says that. I cannot add up your basis and the suggestion into anything that makes sense to me. And, from what I can tell, I am not the only one. The number of stores that carry 3PP materials is small. The number that would have a massively objectionable...

Where is the attack? I said your motivation and reasoning is a mystery to me.

The company you trust to police this has in the last several years alone published racist former slaves space monkeys. I have two black guys in one of the games I run and they think many of the conversations and handwringings are silly but that made them pause. This same company is perfectly...

I don’t think wanting a safer gaming space is wrong. I do think that blaming the OGL and insisting it be modified is wrong and does not tie to any reasonable or actual scenario and changing it is harmful.

To have your own representative that can call specific company people and get answers sounds like a family office. If your family office is big enough, you could fall into the “fund” area and get priority customer service, especially if your representative knows how to ask questions properly...