D&D (2024) I am so torn [UPDATE: I bought it]

[mamba]

That just encourages WotC to wait until not enough people care for it to be of any concern to them.

I doubt they need me to point this out for them

 

[mamba]

So everyone who is mad about the SRD is a publisher?

or wanting to support 3pps. Empathy exists, you do not need to be directly affected to see how something can be negative for someone else

 

[mamba]

And this affects the lives of regular people? Sounds like a lot of entitlement to me.

yeah well, we can turn this around and say it looks pretty egotistical to only care about oneself

Also, they were violating a contract and the trust of people. You can do you, but not even being able to understand how someone can be upset about this is… interesting

 

[mamba]

I'm not sure what you're asking. Is there something that stops you from releasing content you don't own (i.e. a 5E 2024 SRD that's only released under Creative Commons) as Open Game Content under the OGL? Yes: that it's not yours to release.

you do not need to release it, it already is open, you can reference it however

 

[mamba]

The OGL is still in effect. It covers the current SRD. WotC is not currently making any moves to stop people from making content with OGL. So everyone can make whatever they want currently. Moving the SRD to CC will only mean that WotC can never take the 3.5 SRD away (which legally the most like can't anyway

so basically your answer is that there is no point to ever do anything with it

It is a PR stunt really, and I would think they would want to get some good PR, but the have a lot of that with the new books so it can wait.

at the same time they could have just slapped the CC on it a year and a half ago, would probably have generated more good PR too

 

[mamba]

Is it entitlement for people to think companies should give away their stuff for free?

is it entitlement to think that WotC should not be breaking a contract? No one demanded they release something new for free, they said that they cannot legally undo a move they made 30 years ago

 

[Alzrius]

you do not need to release it, it already is open, you can reference it however

Material released under the CC isn't "open" in the sense of being Open Game Content under the OGL.

 

[mamba]

They owe us nothing. I just don’t understand why people think they do.

we owe them nothing either, so we can demand whatever we feel like from them as a condition of continued business… and they might not ‘owe’ us to not violate a contract, but the law has something to say about that too

 

[mamba]

Material released under the CC isn't "open" in the sense of being Open Game Content under the OGL.

can you mix them or not? I believe you can, all you need to do is reference the SRD. So who cares whether it is open under the OGL if you can use it in products alongside OGL content

 

[KYRON45]

yeah well, we can turn this around and say it looks pretty egotistical to only care about oneself

Also, they were violating a contract and the trust of people. You can do you, but not even being able to understand how someone can be upset about this is… interesting

My inability to smolder about something that almost happened 2 years ago but didn’t is the least interesting thing to happen to me today.