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  1. ersatzphil

    WotC Walks Back Some OGL Changes, But Not All

    I really find that part of their statement completely inexplicable. Like, who thought this was a good moment to lord themselves over their customers?
  2. ersatzphil

    WotC Walks Back Some OGL Changes, But Not All

    Huh! I hadn't even considered that, but that actually is a reasonable suspicion.
  3. ersatzphil

    WotC Walks Back Some OGL Changes, But Not All

    Well, that's just a heck of a sentence.
  4. ersatzphil

    WotC Walks Back Some OGL Changes, But Not All

    At this point, I’m going to wait to see the license before calling anything ‘satisfactory’.
  5. ersatzphil

    WotC Walks Back Some OGL Changes, But Not All

    "Second, you’re going to hear people say that they won, and we lost because making your voices heard forced us to change our plans. Those people will only be half right. They won—and so did we." ...wat?
  6. ersatzphil

    Paizo Announces New Irrevocable Open RPG License To Replace the OGL

    Not to indulge in kremlinology, but it would be fascinating to know the discussions happening inside WotC today.
  7. ersatzphil

    Paizo Announces New Irrevocable Open RPG License To Replace the OGL

    Totally! I’ll cheerlead for Chaosium any day; they actually listen to their customers.
  8. ersatzphil

    Paizo Announces New Irrevocable Open RPG License To Replace the OGL

    Leaving aside their odd fixation with NFTs, Chaosium usually does right by their community.
  9. ersatzphil

    Paizo Announces New Irrevocable Open RPG License To Replace the OGL

    "Paizo does not believe that the OGL 1.0a can be 'deauthorized,' ever. While we are prepared to argue that point in a court of law if need be, we don’t want to have to do that, and we know that many of our fellow publishers are not in a position to do so." Goddamn.
  10. ersatzphil

    Rumours: WotC Announcement Today; Insider Email Reveals Plans

    @Parmandur is someone I specifically enjoy interacting with on this forum, but man - as they themselves once said, that dude has an autocorrect that likes to party.
  11. ersatzphil

    The OGL -- Just What's Going On?

    I dunno Darjr - stuff started getting real weird after Bowie passed. I'm not saying he was some kind of cosmic lynchpin, but here we are.
  12. ersatzphil

    The OGL -- Just What's Going On?

    I’ll be the first to admit I didn’t have “Cory Doctorow and Neil Gaiman weigh in negatively on WotC” on my 2023 bingo card.
  13. ersatzphil

    The OGL -- Just What's Going On?

    Agreed. I’m honestly shocked that they have no response - makes me wonder if no one of the people they approached agreed to the terms.
  14. ersatzphil

    The OGL -- Just What's Going On?

    Just made Ars Technica, of all sites: Link.
  15. ersatzphil

    Cory Doctorow writes about the OGL 1.1

    Do people around here sleep!? /s. ;)
  16. ersatzphil

    Cory Doctorow writes about the OGL 1.1

    I originally didn’t think they would, but at this point I’d be surprised if the EFF didn’t weigh in at some point.
  17. ersatzphil

    A Seventh Era (7E) RPG...a call for all the non-Hasbro RPG companies to join together to fight D$D5.1, by creating a shared house system

    Matt Colville actually just announced on stream that MCDM is starting on their own game next week.
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