Level Up (A5E) de-OGL-ifying Level Up?

[FallenRX]

This has become a lot easier to do now since they are planning put the most core expressions of 5e on CCBY

 

[Morrus]

This has become a lot easier to do now since they are planning put the most core expressions of 5e on CCBY

The main issue was the names of spells and monsters and things.

 

[pukunui]

YES please anyway - there are other threads here on EW about how the word "level" is over-freighted in D&D - character levels, dungeon levels, spell levels, etc

I was thinking about this the other day. We could refer to dungeon levels as "floors" and spell levels as "tiers".

Character level
Dungeon floor
Spell tier

Those sound pretty good to me.

 

[Faolyn]

The main issue was the names of spells and monsters and things.

Since they seem to be saying that they still own things like the classes, are you going to have to rename and reconfigure the more player-fronting parts of the game as well>

 

[Micah Sweet]

Since they seem to be saying that they still own things like the classes, are you going to have to rename and reconfigure the more player-fronting parts of the game as well>

Assuming they agree to the 1.2. I still think they have full rights to the 1.0a.

 

[Steampunkette]

Assuming they agree to the 1.2. I still think they have full rights to the 1.0a.

paizo.com - Community / Paizo Blog

Important update

 

[Faolyn]

paizo.com - Community / Paizo Blog

Important update

The TL;DR version: more than 1,500 publishers have pledged to support the ORC.

The ORC horde is growing.

 

[Faolyn]

Assuming they agree to the 1.2. I still think they have full rights to the 1.0a.

I really hope so.

Although fortunately, the classes and heritages are different enough that I can't imagine anything more than a handful of things being renamed. Dragonborn, tieflings and aasimar, the eladrin culture, and some monsters.

 

[Steampunkette]

The TL;DR version: more than 1,500 publishers have pledged to support the ORC.

The ORC horde is growing.

And specifically that EN Publishing is on the list!

 

[FatPandaMonk]

Sorry to inflict a OGL thread here, but today's EN Publishing tweet has given me hope that something positive may come of this OGL mess:


"So what are we doing re #opendnd? Still having crisis meetings but our thoughts are along the lines of (a) de-OGL-ifying Level Up and moving to a true open license; would need work but luckily we didn't use SRD text we wrote our own (b) investing more in WOIN our in-house system."

A de-OGL-ified Level Up wouldn't just be an epic boon to us (and one that I would happily re-purchase all my books for), but also a huge uniting resource for the wider OGL 3PP community: a new d20-adjacent platform that plays better than 5e and has more trusted guardianship. A step above what even Pathfinder did when GSL 1.0 came along.

I don't feel it would be right for me to post a poll on this but my vote is Option A

I don't have enough unused money in bags to happily repurchase books I have at full price. I would continue to use the PDF stuff I have.