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Leaving aside the issue of using words which WotC invented (e.g. "tojanida"), the OGL is essentially WotC's pledge not to pursue litigation against you if you stick to the terms of the license, i.e. you can use anything in the SRD and not have to worry about being sued for copyright...

I looked into this a while back, and came up with the following: https://www.enworld.org/threads/hasbro-ceo-chris-cox-i-would-say-that-the-underlying-thesis-of-our-d-d-business-is-all-about-digital-%E2%80%9D.699244/post-9094566

Which means that you're back to playing a guessing game of "this probably isn't infringing their copyrights...I hope" which an open license is supposed to avoid.

O RLY? And what would be the consequences if they didn't? Because this sounds like it's getting back into that idea about "the rights to the Forgotten Realms would revert back to Greenwood" which I mentioned before, and which come across as very hard to take seriously. It's not a question of...

There are a lot of things in the 3.5 SRD that aren't in the 5.1 SRD. For instance, monsters such as babau demons, winter wolves, nymphs, phase spiders, and quite a few others simply aren't there. The word "psionics" can be found a couple of times in the 5.1 SRD, but good luck trying to recreate...

There's a reason why an argument from authority is a fallacy (especially when the person making it is citing themselves as the authority in question).

I'm not on social media (excepting this board; do messageboards count as social media?), and while I'd like him to post the full text of the purchase agreement (since I think that'd be the quickest way to settle this issue), I think it'd be rather gauche to ask him (or anyone) to do that simply...

You misunderstood my meaning; I was saying that if we're going to look at completely different circumstances (i.e. film rights) as being instructive with regard to what may or may not be in the purchase agreement of the Forgotten Realms, then we should perhaps look a little closer to home. The...

The thing about movie rights being conditional on films being produced after so many years is fairly standard in the film industry today. It's why War of the Rohirrim was made at all, and as I recall it was also a fairly significant part around the legal battle to regain the D&D film rights...

Don't have a Cao, man.

Here's the thing, though: it's not a contract. It is, according to that tweet, something in the "original Realms agreement." Presumably that means the purchase agreement for TSR buying the IP rights to the Forgotten Realms. In which case, even if there's a clause which means exactly what...

Particularly given the disclaimer put on the entirety of their back-catalogue of pre-5E products.

Here's the thing about that: the "uncertainty" around the OGL comes from not being sure whether or not WotC could actually live up to its threat of revoking the OGL. Even though most people (including most of the lawyers who chimed in on the issue, here and elsewhere) were pretty sure they...

This idea has been around for ages, and I've seen numerous permutations of it, yet it's never been demonstrated to be more than hearsay. For instance, there was a long period where the idea was that TSR (and later, WotC) had to publish at least one Forgotten Realms book per year, or the rights...

It's cool. I didn't take it as anything personal. :) That was my understanding too; as I heard it, Bookscan only covers major retailers and Amazon. So FLGSs and direct sales are excluded from their numbers.

Now I'm curious, who held the title of Executive Producer of D&D before him?

No idea. I just know that in Jes Lanzillo, WotC's VP of Finance and Product for D&D, revealed in an interview on January 13th that "...over 3.6 million characters have been made on D&DBeyond with the 2024 ruleset, there are over 19 million registered users on D&DBeyond..." (I've edited my post...

I'll point out that there is evidence to the contrary, anecdotal though it might be: The Bookscan data (covering major book retailers and Amazon) saying that the 2024 PHB only sold a few thousand copies in its first week. The new books failing to come close to Tasha's Cauldron of Everything on...

Not who I expected to leave WotC next, with how important the digital aspect of things is to them.

So right around the time of the OGL debacle? I can't help but wonder if that's a coincidence. :unsure: