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I think it will be better, for several reasons: None of the companies involved in its creation are likely to become as large as Hasbro (not least because their are several of them), and even if they do they will not control the text of the licence itself in the way that WotC do. It will have...

A couple of nitpicks: Combat Reflexes only gives you an extra AoO per round if you actually have a positive Dex mod; otherwise all it does is allow you to take attacks of opportunity while flat footed - probably only worth it if you give them a Dex buff. Also, Meterrak probably does not make...

Pretty inconvenient actually. But I am hardly responsible for WotC having shut down their forums (and/or DDi). Anyway, like I said the primary evidence is long gone, but there is secondary evidence available. This thread on RPGnet from 2013 should be persuasive for anyone more interested in...

I am not the OP, although we seem to be of similar mind on this matter. For me, they could replace some of them with different things of a similar scale, and that would be OK too. No issue with Birthright AFAIK. The OP suggested it as a gesture/recompense of appropriate scale, and I agree with...

I am basically in complete agreement with the OP (including the bit about Orcs of Thar, which I had not thought of but is a damn good idea). I do have a couple of comments/quibbles: While WotC should absolutely release a statement to the effect that 1.0 and 1.0a are irrevocable and they were...

The evidence is not available any more, but it was there. As soon as people stop pushing the lie that 4e did not sell, I will stop correcting them.... WotC has the legal right to issue new versions of the licence, and at least a fig leaf of a legal theory regarding "de-authorisation". A...

Note that this is a myth. According to a flawed reporting methodology, PF1 outsold 4e in particular channels. Meanwhile DDi alone was making staggering amounts of money.

The difference AIUI is that any new versions of the licence will come from the non-profit, not from Paizo or any other for-profit corporation. Therefore, greed and market control will never be the motivation for a new version of the licence the way they are for !OGL 1.1 or 2.0.

He is less likely to that WotC, both because he has not just proven himself to be massively untrustworthy in the way they have, and because he does not have their legal budget. Nonetheless, were I considering supporting Cypher System commercially (I'm not), that might be a dealbreaker for me...

"Nothing has changed"? Yes it has. They took off the mask. They cannot just put it back on and expect us to forget what we saw behind it.

No I got what "British" was describing, but you seemed to be suggesting "respectability politics" to be a uniquely British phenomenon, which confused me. You disagree that other people do not trust WotC? How is that up to you to agree or disagree with?

It is alike, in that hey broke a particularly important promise in a particularly horrible way, and as a result have shattered trust. OTOH, it is unalike due to the sheer scale. Whataboutism rarely does. If it still has the Darth Vader clause, then it literally doesn't matter how reasonable or...

Haven't quite read the whole thread yet, but it's bedtime and I've already amassed quite a few quotes to respond to so I will leave this here and come back to it tomorrow.... Everyone, every day. It is pretty much impossible to live in the modern world without doing so. That trust is not (or...

Wait, what? Big "citation needed" there, because I was pretty sure that there is no OGC in 4e or Magic (still am, actually).

You used "it is their IP" as a reason to include a poison-pill hate-speech clause. Pointing out that "it's their IP" is nonsense is a perfectly reasonable rebuttal to that (also, Micky Mouse has never been released under any version of the OGL AFAIK - both my examples had). There is nothing in...

It would not have made it impossible that they would try, but I feel like it would have made it less likely. AIUI (IANAL), you have to comply with both licences. If you cannot do that, because complying with one makes it impossible to comply with the other and vice versa (as I believe is the...

Not the relevant question. Anyone dictating morality is incompatible with the licence being open and irrevocable, so morality clauses are the opposite of what the OP is asking for. Whether they should or not, they cannot. FATE is not their IP. For that matter, PF2 is not their IP either. True...

I read the whole thread (as it existed at the time). Unfortunately, that meant by the time I got to the end I had a huge list of quotes to respond to and could not entirely remember which had been addressed and which had not.... 😳

They always try to follow the money (which TBF is their job). They often turn out to be terrible at it, though! Would trying to get someone to sign a contract based on an OGL you never plan to actually release not be fraud? If they actually did that, never mind civil consequences - people...

That was the origin of the Pathfinder brand, but the Pathfinder RPG appeared a little later (the first few Pathfinder adventure paths were for 3.5). OTOH, if Wikipedia is to be believed the RPG was announced in March 2008 so still before the GSL finally arrived (although not before WotC started...