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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheSword" data-source="post: 9241150" data-attributes="member: 6879661">As has been said by [USER=16668]@Ulorian - Agent of Chaos[/USER], Jan 5th for Linda’s article. WotC indicated that it was re-considering things a few days earlier (Jan 20th) than their officiant announcement and If I recall the article launched at the end of a week so two weeks is pretty much on the nose. For WotC the to have made the announcement on the 20th they must have discussed earlier. It was a fast turnaround but not so fast that it was clearly planned.Are you suggesting that DMs Guild would have closed down? That access to FR IP wouldn’t be worth it for a lot of publishers?You can ask! If You buy a building and I’m a tenant and the previous landlord said they’ll never put my rent up. You feel the circumstances have changed and write asking for a rent increase. I respond to you tbat the previous landlord said it would never go up and that I don’t want an increase and my neighbors write in support of this. If you withdrew the suggestion within 3 weeks, and publicly announced there would be no increase and never would. I would take that as a win. I don’t think the landlord is out of line for asking. If they listen that’s a good thing.I respect that you’ve chosen to do that. Picking your business partners is really important - and I suspect one of the reasons WotC want to change the license in the first place. However I’m sorry but many people would not consider that to mean that you were shut down or put out of business. You made a business decision. If you stick to it even after WotC retracted their plans then that’s also your choice.There’s a level risk in any venture. If you felt the level of risk was too great then I totally get you not wanting to invest that time, effort and money. But the reality is many others are - will continue to do. The Sword of Damocles was held by a single hair. The threat of the OGL being revoked seems to be back in the box for the foreseeable future. Comparing one to the other seems hyperbolic. Particularly when even if revocation had happened it wouldn’t have affected previous published works just new products.It was big - for a month and now it’s back to business as usual.More importantly maintenance of the terms and their public validation by a more current management team was a big win for 3pp 5e and the fanbase that uses them. Now if only folks could look past their animus and see that.</blockquote>

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