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Cynthia Williams is the BU head of WoTC (president, Wizards of the Coast and Digital Gaming,), I believe a direct report to the CEO and is high enough up that she was with CEO on the UBS webcast when she was directly quoted about monetizing D&D more. I think it is a fair comparison to the...

The investor call was not leaked. It was public and it had to be to comply with SEC Reg FD (fair disclosure).

At the time the OGL was made, it seemed solid enough and WoTC made it clear that the intent was what people were imagining it was.

Enworld has already put out a pretty solid “5e” very recently.

So Foundry is depending on another to decide it is not worth their while to change the "deal". Kind of like everyone using 1.0a. They do not make a royalty, btw. They sell their books. Yes, digital, yada yada, but they sell the book for the same price on D&D Beyond via FG and Roll20...

They have not needed to, they were gathering info and were planning on this nuclear strike on the OGL and VTT in general. I already said that I am a Hasbro shareholder much earlier in this thread, but that does not change my opinion of their current contemplated actions. I mainly use Fantasy...

I disagree (except for the part that this is not Foundry that did it directly). Foundry massively benefits from 5e being available on their platform and the use is clearly not authorized by D&D Beyond. Owning the content on D&D Beyond is a benefit in and of iteself and WoTC does not get extra...

The focus here is on creators, but the main weakness I see is in the very narrow distribution methods in place today. Close off One Bookshelf and Kickstarter and it does not matter much if you are right about the nature of the contract in OGL 1.0A. This is also a direct nuclear strike to all VTT...

"J. You will not attempt to circumvent or go around this agreement in any way, such as by creating separate entities to try to evade payment of royalties." No opening up a series of companies to keep earnings below $50K/$750K.

Did that GPL case get a court ruling or was it settled in private without a judge ruling on it?

I think this is a hard argument for Hasbro to make because they have grown and prospered with this being in place for quite a while. Maybe they can claim their new edition launch might be irreparably harmed if there is competition but that seems like a stretch when there are plenty of non-OGL...

I think they can delay it to add cost and grind down their opponents who are much smaller than them by dragging out the pre-trial steps as long as possible, but they will be fighting against defense lawyers who will be trying for a speedy trial. Hard to say, some of it goes to the judge and how...

This thread was started by a lawyer that feels that they can just revoke/terminate it. The other lawyers in this this thread had not argued against the general right to terminate / revoke a license. Yes, there might be things that would block it, but those are theories and there is a feeling...

One theory is that they terminate all previous licenses leaving only the new one. They revoke them.

Any talk or speculation of selling out is pointless. First, selling out what? Is someone strongly on the record promoting open gaming content and then switched or went silent because Hasbro paid them to? If a business makes a business decision, that is not selling out. Second, the story is...

It would be incredibly hard to prove intent to fraud if they were going to release the new license and entered into the agreement in good faith. Why a DA would ever take that up if they cared about their win percentages (and they do) escapes me. A civil case would have to show damages.

There is a certain amount of hyperbole about the ability to go completely nuclear in this type of lawsuit. Federal lawsuits do not allow you to blindly select a location. Usually there needs to be a nexus and a reason. So many 3PP are in the greater Seattle area as is WoTC that any defense...

As a “suit” and specifically a public company finance professional, I can easily see where Hasbro is coming from. The tangible benefit to them is hard to measure. Royalty payments are sweet, sweet profits that boosts their investor relations (I am a Hasbro shareholder even). They pay a ton of...

I enjoy Cavill as an actor. I did not like the murdering Superman (nor the gun crazy Batman) that came from the last grouping of DC movies. So I agree that a change is needed.

Dynamics 365 is ERP software, not Office or Azure. They made the guy that ran the accounting software division the new D&D head.