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According to Ryan Dancey, had the split been successful, both companies would be worth more as separate entities, and they (shareholders) would have essentially doubled their money. It would be speculation, but positive speculation that Has/Wiz stock prices would not have dropped, and then...

Thank you for posting this article. It is important to understand that the internal conversations within the company are not as unified as many have assumed. There are wotc employees who didn't want any of this, because they understand the community, but had no choice because of corporate...

While I agree the CC stuff is a good thing, it still only provides a fraction of what is available in the SRD, and doesn't include classes, spells, or monsters. They could still sue for "trade dress" of monsters or classes, & the CC material doesn't protect you from all future litigation like...

Cool Cool, you never can be too sure these days. Cheers! ;)

Yes indeed it has, but I was referring the the previous year though, when their stock dipped up to 40%, right before the release of M30.

Hasbro stock price has plummeted over the past year (2022), with banks downgrading their stock right before the release of M30, losing up to 40% of their stock balue and their stock is now downrated to a "sell now" stock. M30 was also a disaster, that they expected to make windfall profits from...

The only reason they listened AT ALL is because of the DDB subscription cancellations. They didn't care about 3pp's until the community moved to support them. All corporate execs care about is money. Wotc has no choice but to follow their (Hasbro's) orders. How do you negotiate with a corporate...

This is the way forward. Folks shouldn't have to compromise with a shoddy corporate half-measure, over a standing agreement of 20 years.

Exactly this: dnd drew upon a wide variety of sources, from its wargaming roots, to the fiction available at the time (Vancian magic, adapted From The Dying Earth), to adaptating material from mythology/ folklore. Some games today use the same or similar ability scores without using the OGL at...

I have been working on a non-fantasy project for years, all that will change is the system it uses (going with my own), and the fact that I won't be using the OGL, but another less restrictive license, CC, ORC, whatever fits best with the future of the open gaming community.

I had been designing games under the original OGL since its release in 2000, I had honestly thought that it was the best system (3e) for a long time. Designing for 5e was much easier, but it also had a lot of expectations that you are supposed to follow (formatting, "natural language," and...

If you go back and read my posts, you will see me saying the exact same thing. Wotc rank and file are not to blame, this was a compartmentalized corporate decision (staff didn't hear about it until Jan 11th, so they were lied to as well), and it affects everyone negatively, including wotc staff...

Detractors aside, I have personally experienced a pretty significant loss in time & sunk costs working on a 5e project for many years. But I am ok with that. What my problem is, is that there are publishers, writers, artists, creatives, & freelancers of all stripes, all potentially out of a job...

Ok, if that's not the right word to use, then what is the word you would prefer?

It was a mutual agreement for more than twenty years. That's good faith broken on a scale that is to me pretty severe. Seeing the damage inflicted on small businesses is something I guess you are ok with.

Extreme hyberbole much? I think you are mistaking me for someone else. Where in my comment does it state anything regarding abuse?

Gaslighting, lying about it being a "draft" instead of a legal document with attached contracts, no mention of still deauthorizing the 1.0a, and claiming they still won (when nobody won at all, the most important issue is still unresolved), make it a complete "F" for failure.

Despite the fact that the DMsguild doesn't use the OGL, but a completely different license? Not to mention, that the OGL pre-existed the guild by what, more than a dozen years?

The OGL never covered IP, nobody could ever use wotc trademarks or any Intellectual Property, thats part of the agreement of the license. You could even claim compatability with dnd if you don't use the OGL, you seem not to have read the OGL and what it means to 3pp's.

I assumed the number included support staff, but I could be mistaken.