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Speaking of Disney, does anyone know if the in-development Marvel RPG uses the OGL?

Kit Walsh at the Electronic Frontier Foundation has written an article on the OGL.

Charlie's a very well-known YTer. He hits a variety of subjects (video games, top 10 lists, etc). His getting involved, even peripherally, will get quite a few more eyes on the situation. In the 12 minutes it took me to watch his video, it got 10,000 more views.

In possibly related news today: Hasbro's stock has really taken a hit over the last year. It appears that the OGL 1.1 announcement may indicate that the hits just keep on coming.

Me, upon hearing the "Disney as White Knight" theory:

Hasbro's stock has been on a steady rise all week (and for the last 2 weeks or so after a pre-Christmas lull). That's probably the only conversation of note happening right now.

I would assume that they are weighing the cost of the lost good will against the potential increases in revenue that they are projecting from increased monetization, and drooling in anticipation.

I believe Cynthia Williams and Dan Rawson are fairly new hires. I also believe they're doing exactly what power investors and the higher-ups at Hasbro want them to do, which is protect and monetize their IP to the hilt to increase their revenue stream. This isn't really about D&D rulebooks, or...

That could very well be. However, it will take years of pre-trial motions, discovery, witness testimony and possible injunctions before a judge can make that ruling, and someone will have to pay for all of that.

Nothing stops WOTC from making separate, and more beneficial to the licensee, deals with those entities, however.

Some of them are former MS execs. They have to be pretty inured to customer criticisms by now.

I am not up on the current distro discounts, but back in the '90s the distributor bought the books at 40% of the retail price, and some (most?) had a further 5% discount for payment within a certain time period (usually 30 days, although some tried to extend that to 45 or 60 days). The profit...

I have seen some of those guys. Even at my overconfident best, my reaction to sparring with them would have been a strict

When I studied Shotokan, there was no red belt (or blue either). Maybe it was school and region-dependent. When I moved to kung-fu there were no prismacolor belts at all, which I preferred.

I once published a very small-press RPG. I am also a rival to Hasbro.

I mean, I've got the skills. It's what I do. But, as the saying goes, this frog jumps for cash, and no one in their right mind is going to pay me to waste everyone's time by PhotoShopping NuTSR's drek. Especially when they're doing just fine creating racist, offensive, barely comprehensible drek...

And the Monkey's Paw tightens...

I hadn't seen anyone else with my name, and then saw an episode of The Sopranos and I was in the cast list! OK, it wasn't me, but an actor with the same name. I just tell everyone it's me.