Battlezoo Shares The OGL v1.1

Battlezoo, the YouTube channel which shared the initial leak of the new Open Game License, has shared the PDF of the OGL v1.1 draft which is currently circulating. This draft is, presumably, the same document obtained by Gizmodo last week. It's not currently known if this is the final version of the license.

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[Alzrius]

Remember when Lorraine Williams was canonized as the savior of D&D in the aftermath of Gygax's complete mismanagement on these boards, just a few months ago when Slaying the Dragon was all the rage?

Pepperidge Farms remembers.

But Baskin-Robbins always finds out.

 

[ilgatto]

Start with these

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So this basically says that you must sign up for This if you would want to dream up and sell anything relating to D&D and that anything you do dream up for D&D is actually ours because "We D&D, You you" and then you must pay us "some" of the large amounts of money you might make from it, while we are not going to pay you anything if we would publish your stuff unchanged and, also, we can change the "some" into anything we like at any time and then you're going to pay for any legal problems we may decide we might be in for any reason and, also, terminating this agreement isn't gonna change any of the above?

That's... interesting.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Sure, you are allowed to, but the sexism here is not obvious.

If you can't see how changing beer to chardonnay is sexist, you have a broken sexism detector.

Or possibly you have no idea what chardonnay is I guess, but then you were presumably perplexed by the meme.

 

[Konrad13]

Theres a petition being sent to WotC, might as well sign it. #OpenDND

Did yesterday!

 

[S'mon]

If you can't see how changing beer to chardonnay is sexist, you have a broken sexism detector.

Or possibly you have no idea what chardonnay is I guess, but then you were presumably perplexed by the meme.

Chardonnay - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Yaarel]

1) PF2 is derivative of the 3.5 SRD so it might be difficult to put out a "clean" version that would avoid a C&D.
2) PF2 is extremely tightly designed. It isn't as simple as picking it apart. If you tear out feats, for example, you have completely hobbled character generation.

1) Right. The scenario would be, even tho Paizo and everyone else have the right to use the OGL 1.0a, Hasbro-WotC is an untrustworthy stewart. So later Paizo extricates the OGL from PF2, then offers a Paizo Open License, perhaps a form of CC with access to the PF2 RD.

2) 5e refugees would use the CC to modify the RD. Personally I would see if it could be a simpler build but still balance with PF2 characters at the same table. But it canbe a completely different system - it doesnt need to be the same asi PF2.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Chardonnay - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I should have included that yeah!

 

[Ruin Explorer]

1) PF2 is derivative of the 3.5 SRD so it might be difficult to put out a "clean" version that would avoid a C&D.
2) PF2 is extremely tightly designed. It isn't as simple as picking it apart. If you tear out feats, for example, you have completely hobbled character generation.

There are games which use Feats which aren't OGL, like Open Legend, and WotC has never come for them, so I suspect that particular example is fine. But yeah I think other stuff could be an issue.

 

[Reynard]

There are games which use Feats which aren't OGL, like Open Legend, and WotC has never come for them, so I suspect that particular example is fine. But yeah I think other stuff could be an issue.

The feats reference was more about how it might not be possible to streamline PF2 too much given how intricate it's design is.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

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Excellent work.