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How about PF(2)? All official content available in searchable form for free online, along with plenty of optons for free character builders and other tooling?

As I was the one using causal players at the start of this mini echange, maybe I should clarify what I meant. I intended it to mean consumers that are not very into looking at the "meta" of what is going on aroubd the game. They can be heavy spenders, but their purchase decissions is more formed...

They could just have created a new GSL and associated a badge with it. Markeded that heavily as the only real oneD&D compliant material as to pared to legacy compatible, and the huge causal marked would likely have followed. Creators would have gone where the consumers were. At the 4ed time...

Yes, this is why trying to mess with 1.0a is really bad. It doesnt only mess with the ability to use wizards creations. It messes with the ability to build on hundreds of peoples hard work contributed in good faith to this common project. Not only that, even if 1.0a stands, this new proposed...

I went down this rabbit hole in another thread. My thinking is that it is implied by who can publish new versions. Ryan Dancy recently went on record stating that "authorized" was supposed to discriminate between draft and non-draft versions. How I read that is that I am free to release content...

There was some supplements released under 1.0. For instance I have the parts of the freeport trilogy under that license. I didn't go word for word over it and comparing with 1.0a, but they are extremely similar. The leaked dokument referenced 1.0(a) which I gather is most reasonably interpreted...

There was a middle way. They could have gone the 4ed route of again abandoning the OGL. Maybe make a new GSL, maybe rely on DmGuild licensing only. With the curent market position and without the other factors dooming D&D4ed I think this might had a fair chance to work. Creators would have...

Likely not. But I think there will be at the very least for a while a fringe underground movement continuing publishing material for 13th age, PF1 and retro-clones. These systems seem to have a sufficiently strong fan-following that I don't foresee them being stomped out easily. And such fringe...

"Former Microsoft executives crushes thriving open source community"

I listened to it and my main issue was that they presented 5.1 SRD as the only OGC. On their facebook I tried to point out this error, and they commented back the somewhat eye opening statement that it clearly isn't written as a open source license. I am saying eye opening, as I realised...

I just want to add a another line of defense in addition to the "can they end authorization", and copyright question: You could try to argue that even if wizards are found to be able to end "authorization", it might not prevent you from exercising your section 4 rights, but rather just limit...

Couldn't find anything about the "one ring" i that linked article when searching. Is it not directly referenced to by name, or might it have been in the comments? That could be interesting, but it might also be read similar to that they want to keep the biggest and scariest players off their...

I am aware, and I thought from all the fuzz that it was obvious that wizards want to make a platform. There has been a lot of talk about third parties making skins, assets and other content for the new VTT made available via micotransactions (where peresumably wizards take a cut). A company...

The problem is this go two ways. Many have invested too much in crating things only available for further use under the OGL. It is likely true that nothing truely original and valuable will ever be made under OGL ever again. The question is if large parts of the enormous value the community has...

A bit late, but in case there are others that is concerned and do not know: Pathfinder(2), including absolutely all official rules content is completely free to play! The book contains a lot of pretty art, better layouting, examples and such. But all the important text, including the...

Irrevokable doesnt seem to be enough if you care about atribution..

If they had gone out agressively, it wouldnt have been a threat. It would have been an action. Wizards know how influential CR is, and seeing them going public with even something you need to be a tea reading expert to see might really scare them. If they go out fully endorsing a different...

Very many of the new systems relly on ogl to protect against legal action (there was a lot of these in the 90s) many of them also rely on the ogl for enabling content creation for their game. ORC might help on the second count, but transitioning to it might actually put them on a worse legal...

There is a key difference: Wizards were completely D&D centric, and didn't address the OGC issue at all. Matt Mercer specifically calls out creators of new systems in his first paragraph. This is the category that will likely be hurt most by 1.0a being closed down to D&D specific. If it hadn't...

I think this is not as inocent as you might think. To me this looks like a polite direct threat to Wizards: We have chosen side. Your move.