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But WotC is interested in budging. They dropped the ownership clause, royalties, declaring income, and so much more. They've dropped almost everything. And the other side has dropped nothing and only added more demands.

But they didn't lock horns. Paizo chose not to fight and to go off and make ORC rather than actually engaging. Pathfinder isn't competition for D&D the RPG any more, let alone D&D the brand. Which is growing in leaps and bounds. Paizo is beneath the notice of WotC.

Then goodbye. There's nothing more you need to say and there's no point in you engaging in the topic anymore.

Isn't it? WotC want's something. The community wants something. The two sides have to find some way to meet in the middle and compromise. If one side isn't budging then things are an impasse. It's having a discussion with a brick wall. WotC will just have to ignore those people and move on...

I don't think so. Pathfinder sells like a tenth of D&D. Or a hundredth. They're not the competition of D&D. They're the competition of D&D 3PP.

Okay... so right now it seems like WotC only has one thing they really want: the OGL 1.0a revoked. Everything else is negotiable, but keeping that seems to be the deal breaker. There's something in the old license they object to or worry will be abused in the future. So, reasonably, if this...

I'm sure they'll get lots of reasonable well thought out feedback.

In fairness, WoW is also one of the only MMORPGs that isn't F2P. So, really, them just asking for $15 a month is a lot more than most competitors.

If Blizzard was launching WoW now and/ or could get away with increasing prices, do you still think they'd be charging $15?

And that very well might exist. And it's already easy to gift products and subs on DnDBeyond already with digital codes. But having to rely on them to play the game and be unable to play the game otherwise? That seems incredibly unlikely. Even online, it seems dubious other VTT will go away or...

That would depend on the Terms of Use. But generally, the creator would own the copyright and WotC would also have ownership rights to copy and distribute, like with the DMsGuild. Which is one of those things that people who don't understand the law or issues read and get upset about and freak...

Given the D&D Funkos, T-shirts, figures of adorable power, and non-gaming books I've purchased in the last 5 years for me and my son, it's not a bad market. Spread out sales beyond just the RPG...

Will never happen. Too many people play offline. It would eliminate schools, libraries, game stores, troops playing overseas, conventions, etc. Kids under 13 would need their parent's permission, and most kids under 18yo won't have credit cards. And they're a huge audience. People worried...

You need to finish putting on your tinfoil hat before you make statements like that... 🙄

Thanks...? And if you have physical books and cancel, they don't go away here either. This is more like D&D Insider: if you don't download when your sub expires the content goes away. Similarly, if you cancel Roll20, you lose the files you have stored there. Ditto Dropbox or Google Drive. And...

First, as others have said, social media personalities, including YouTubers, get their money from views. They're incentivized to stir up negative feelings and prolong controversy as that directs people to their videos. They're going to continue to foster negative opinions towards WotC because...

You better go warn D&D wiki and the Homebrewery then that the sky is falling!

You can't "imply" the SRD. You need to include the full text of the OGL to use the OGL. That's the thing, the OGL is for publishers not fans and homebrew. WotC isn't TSR and doesn't give a toss about fans sharing fan homebrew. 99% of Unearthed Arcana and the D&D Wiki is flagrantly illegal...

I think you're mistaking a privilege for a right.

Can you point me to someone with the OGL on r/UnearthedArcana? If it's required why does dandwiki.com only have 1,597 Open Game Content articles but 26,573 Homebrew articles?