Bob Worldbuilder debunks the Daggerheart license “scandal”

[Vael]

On a related note, how long would it take to create a DH class?

Depends. If you are using already existing domains, it's pretty quick. Already a bunch of homebrew classes filling the grid. Longer if you are creating additional domains.

 

[aramis erak]

I disagree. It’s what it should be going forward. The OGL debacle just showed us the way.

You don't have a right to use other people's things. That they license it should be more than enough; the OGL has created a whole class of self-entitlement-delusion individuals demanding everything be made available free. They are, fundamentally, thugs demanding Devs work for nothing.

it's not like companies haven't abused the OGL, either. Mongoose owes a significant portion of its initial success to just doing a different format relayout of the 3e SRD into a smaller size, and selling it cheap. It was purely plagiarism, but done within the term of the OGL 1.0a. They didn't add content value, only format value. And no copies sold benefitted the guys who wrote that text.

To me, that's fundamentally dishonest.

Pathfinder was not quite dishonest. If they'd pulled a Mongoose, and just reprinted the SRD, I'd find that offensive; they altered, added too, and adapted it quite a bit. But they still don't pay the guys who have the legal and moral right to expect compensation for their work.

The issue of copyright is that it's lasting way too long. In both the UK and US, copyright is there to encourage creation by giving a suitable period of exclusive economic use. That period is too long now, and is inhibiting creative use... but the demand for instantly releasing OGL is going the other way, literally moving to almost no exclusive use.

 

[darjr]

You don't have a right to use other people's things.

Darlington Press WANTS people to use their stuff.

Start there first.

 

[mamba]

You don't have a right to use other people's things. That they license it should be more than enough; the OGL has created a whole class of self-entitlement-delusion individuals demanding everything be made available free.

you have no right for it to be licensed that way, you have every right to ask for it however

WotC is not suffering because of the OGL / CC, all the content made under it for their game is benefiting D&D sales, that is why they created the OGL in the first place.

But they still don't pay the guys who have the legal and moral right to expect compensation for their work.

they waived that right, and they benefit from it indirectly, even if WotC does not get money directly. I see nothing wrong with that, if anything I consider it a smart decision on WotC’s part