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<blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 8896295" data-attributes="member: 20741">There is, of course, an easier path and something that shouldn't be hard either as a stop-gap while using it as a &quot;defender brand&quot;. Just buy Foundry VTT, FFS, and contract the guy to stay on and provide non-competes in the usual manner, etc..That would have been much wiser. Likely cheaper, too.Had they simply done that, and then released a 1.1 OGL that simply removed VTTs from permitted products, going forward? Nobody would have said jack.&nbsp; It would have had a thread here, on DDB and rpg.net. Discord would barely have raised an eyebrow. Gizmodo wouldn't have bothered to write a sentence on it.They could have got away with that entirely. Most of us wouldn't have noticed -- those that did notice would not have cared. A narrow majority of Foundry users would have CHEERED WotC ON. The story would have been about other games, like PF2, and whether the Foundry community would be allowed to keep on supporting a myriad of other game systems other than 5e.It was the shopping cart of OGL 1.0a remorse druthers that started to pile up and caused this $hit-storm. The royalty demand did that. To what end?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Steel_Wind, post: 8896295, member: 20741"] There is, of course, an easier path and something that shouldn't be hard either as a stop-gap while using it as a "defender brand". Just [B]buy[/B] Foundry VTT, FFS, and contract the guy to stay on and provide non-competes in the usual manner, etc.. That would have been much wiser. Likely cheaper, too. Had they simply done that, and then released a 1.1 OGL that simply removed VTTs from permitted products, going forward? [I]Nobody would have said jack. [/I]It would have had a thread here, on DDB and rpg.net. Discord would barely have raised an eyebrow. Gizmodo wouldn't have bothered to write a sentence on it. They could have got away with that entirely. Most of us wouldn't have noticed -- those that did notice would not have cared. A narrow majority of Foundry users would have CHEERED WotC ON. The story would have been about other games, like PF2, and whether the Foundry community would be allowed to keep on supporting a myriad of other game systems other than 5e. It was the shopping cart of OGL 1.0a remorse druthers that started to pile up and caused this $hit-storm. The royalty demand did that. To what end? [/QUOTE]

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