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I've consolidated my reactions to the changes Hasbro & Wizards of the Coast has announced to their plans to change the OGL. Please read and share!

I've consolidated my thoughts on Hasbro & Wizards of the Coast changing the goalposts on their attempt to revise the OGL. Please read & share! https://rsdancey.medium.com/22-years-ago-i-saved-d-d-today-i-want-to-save-the-open-gaming-license-77e79eaddfb2

As of this morning over TEN THOUSAND people have signed my petition asking Hasbro to stop attempting to deauthorize the #OGL v1.0a. They're starting to listen. Sign the Petition They made an announcement today that they're altering their trajectory based on pressure from the community. An...

I think you'll find most of your questions answered here! https://www.enworld.org/threads/ryan-dancey-hasbro-cannot-deauthorize-ogl.694196/

I believe there are people inside Hasbro who stand against these changes and want to stop this process. This petition is designed to help give them ammo in their internal fights and possibly to raise visibility with important shareholders and other stakeholders who can influence Hasbro's...

Two decades ago I helped create the Open Gaming License which helped save Dungeons & Dragons. Today that license is at risk of being changed by Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast. I am hoping that a coordinated response by the community might make them reconsider their plans. Please join me in...

The project began life as one license. However it quickly became obvious that entangling a trademark license and a copyright license in one document was problematic. I don't even know if a version of the One Big License ever made it into public view. I suspected that the trademark license was...

The Skaff Effect suggests that ALL activity in the category eventually benefits the marketshare leader; so competitive RPGs benefit D&D. The benefit is obviously not as great as stuff expressly designed for D&D but it is not zero. I would argue that the least beneficial is content designed for a...

100%. That's why the D20STL forced you to not make a "player's handbook". Not only did we expect it, I expected people to publish the SRD as a product and try to make money from it.

Part of the challenge was convincing publishers this was not a “trap”. Many people saw a conspiracy to kill all the competition and steal their ideas. It took courage on the part of some high profile publishers to take the risk and lead the way - Green Ronin, Atlas, and White Wolf with...

Throughout Y2K I operated a mailing list called ogf-l (actually I operated two, the other was ogf-d20-l for discussions about the D20 trademark license). Starting at the GAMA Trade Show in the spring we engaged with as many 3rd parties as we could to get as much feedback as we could on the text...

it was drafted by the in house counsel with my input and participation.

Hey look - this account still works! :) <waves to all>

A lot of great comments in this thread - I'm glad people found something interesting to consider out of the panel at Pax East! Hopefully we'll be able to do it again in the future!

I think its funny that people respond to a discussion of branding strategy and positioning by stating the premise that the problem was that we were incapable of making a great product. Talk about .... Missing the point....

Hi! I was the brand manager for Dungeons & Dragons and the VP of Tabletop RPGs at Wizards of the Coast from 1998 to 2000. I can answer this question. There were plans to do a Magic RPG and several iterations of such a game were developed at various times. After Wizards of the Coast bought...

Yeah 1989. Typo. :(

I stand (gratefully) corrected. Good to hear about that success Chris! RyanD

After Vince Calouri was pushed out of Wizards of the Coast he was replaced by Chuck Heubner. Chuck basically had to manage Wizards on the downslope from the Pokemon salad days. Hasbro has been through many boom & bust cycles in the toy business and they have a standard response when it happens...

You have to learn all the backstory that led up to that meeting to understand the context. It's a long and winding road. After Vince Calouri was pushed out of Wizards of the Coast he was replaced by Chuck Heubner. Chuck basically had to manage Wizards on the downslope from the Pokemon salad...