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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Najo" data-source="post: 4474098" data-attributes="member: 9959">Before I reply, I had one more thing to add to my last post:One of the elements that leaves a sour taste in my mouth regarding the GSL is the impending deadline for 3pp being able to release their products. The October go date has being known since May-June, but we still have no solid GSL and about 3 weeks ago 3pp need to be printing their products to hit the date. But since the GSL is not appealing, the publishers can't safely start using it.This puts the companies in a place where they a) keep making 3.x products, b) hop on board and put their head in the mouth or c) wait it out and generate no income as they wait to see what happens. This could put alot of those publishers out of business, which looks like this is what WOTC wants. I hope that is not the case, as Scott and crew seem like nice, trustworthy people. So, with that being the case, either those approving the GSL are making things hard or D&D is understaffed, under budgetted or both. Now, for my reply:I think the only way WOTC truely can make the GSL safe is to open it like the OGL. They would have to allow the basic rules of the game to be open content in a SRD like the OGL is. Anything less makes it possible to close the license and take away the safe harbor the 3pp need.The next suitable level is for WOTC to create an expectations list for a 3pp compliancy and rules on correcting violations of those expectations. As long as the company is in good standing, they are able to product materials for D&D. The safe harbor here is that it doesn't block the OGL if you lose compliancy and as long as you have compliancy the license is edition proof into the future too. If we do not see either of these approaches or something close, then I think the intentions of WOTC are going to come into question. As they probably should. Personally, I think long term win/win is good for the D&D game and the hobby community. I hope WOTC sees that.Oh, and thanks for the nice comments Corjay, its much appreciated <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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