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<blockquote data-quote="Jerik" data-source="post: 8898013" data-attributes="member: 7039785">Well, yeah, but WotC seems to have indicated that they may be trying to walk that back; even if that wouldn't hold up in court, and even if they never end up following through on it, their intimations on the matter are enough that 3pps are already fleeing the OGL.&nbsp; Maybe &quot;unsafe hands&quot; wasn't the best wording; all I meant was that if WotC is willing to pull these kinds of shenanigans it's likely that Paizo would think the OGL isn't worth the trouble and after this they would have wanted to create a different license regardless of what terms WotC's new license might end up having.&nbsp; I'm offering no opinion on Wizards of the Coast's legal standing to stop the dissemination of their Open Game Content; I'm not a lawyer, and many people in this thread who are lawyers, yourself included, have already addressed that matter in depth.&nbsp; All I'm saying is, regardless of their legal standing to revoke the OGL or whatever it is they're actually trying to do, they're muddying the waters enough that Paizo and other companies are likely to want to avoid working with their license if they have a choice.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jerik, post: 8898013, member: 7039785"] Well, yeah, but WotC seems to have indicated that they may be trying to walk that back; even if that wouldn't hold up in court, and even if they never end up following through on it, their intimations on the matter are enough that 3pps are already fleeing the OGL. Maybe "unsafe hands" wasn't the best wording; all I meant was that if WotC is willing to pull these kinds of shenanigans it's likely that Paizo would think the OGL isn't worth the trouble and after this they would have wanted to create a different license regardless of what terms WotC's new license might end up having. I'm offering no opinion on Wizards of the Coast's legal standing to stop the dissemination of their Open Game Content; I'm not a lawyer, and many people in this thread who [I]are[/I] lawyers, yourself included, have already addressed that matter in depth. All I'm saying is, [I]regardless[/I] of their legal standing to revoke the OGL or whatever it is they're actually trying to do, they're muddying the waters enough that Paizo and other companies are likely to want to avoid working with their license if they have a choice. [/QUOTE]

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