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<blockquote data-quote="FormerLurker" data-source="post: 8910602" data-attributes="member: 7031660"><p>This is the crux of the issue for me.</p><p></p><p>It's become less about Open Gaming and actually ensuring the livelihood of 3rd Party Publishers and morphed into an excuse to attack and bash WotC. To the point where people are willing to defend and choose Amazon and MasterCard over Wizards of the Coast just to performatively make their point...</p><p></p><p>The new <em>clearly</em> OGL has issues. </p><p>It's not really Open and needs to have some guidelines on how to declare content Open and Closed for the use of other parties. The morality clause needs some better definitions and an appeals process. It needs to be clearly irrevocable. Digital platforms and non-static mediums like blogs, message boards, and Wikis need to be included in the acceptable places to post OGL content. The SRDs shared under the old version of the OGL need to be shared here as well.</p><p>But WotC seems willing to fix these problems, and bringing up the problems that need to be fixed is infinitely more productive that beating the dead horse that is revoking the OGL 1.0a.</p><p></p><p>And, really... the <em><strong>worst </strong></em>thing that could happen to 3rd Party Publishers is killing D&D.</p><p>That would destroy their back catalogue, and seriously hurt future sales. Depending on the month, 3PP 5e products are the #3 or #2 RPG on the market and for those publishers, losing those books would hinder or kill their business. Because if everyone switches over to 13th Age or Pathfinder then no one is going to back <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/deepmagic/deep-magic-2-spellcasters-emporium-for-5th-edition-games" target="_blank">Deep Magic 2</a> from Kobold Press and no one is going to buy <em>Flee Mortals! </em>when it's released. </p><p>A healthy and successful 5e (and 6e in a year) means healthy and successful 3rd Party Publishers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FormerLurker, post: 8910602, member: 7031660"] This is the crux of the issue for me. It's become less about Open Gaming and actually ensuring the livelihood of 3rd Party Publishers and morphed into an excuse to attack and bash WotC. To the point where people are willing to defend and choose Amazon and MasterCard over Wizards of the Coast just to performatively make their point... The new [I]clearly[/I] OGL has issues. It's not really Open and needs to have some guidelines on how to declare content Open and Closed for the use of other parties. The morality clause needs some better definitions and an appeals process. It needs to be clearly irrevocable. Digital platforms and non-static mediums like blogs, message boards, and Wikis need to be included in the acceptable places to post OGL content. The SRDs shared under the old version of the OGL need to be shared here as well. But WotC seems willing to fix these problems, and bringing up the problems that need to be fixed is infinitely more productive that beating the dead horse that is revoking the OGL 1.0a. And, really... the [I][B]worst [/B][/I]thing that could happen to 3rd Party Publishers is killing D&D. That would destroy their back catalogue, and seriously hurt future sales. Depending on the month, 3PP 5e products are the #3 or #2 RPG on the market and for those publishers, losing those books would hinder or kill their business. Because if everyone switches over to 13th Age or Pathfinder then no one is going to back [URL='https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/deepmagic/deep-magic-2-spellcasters-emporium-for-5th-edition-games']Deep Magic 2[/URL] from Kobold Press and no one is going to buy [I]Flee Mortals! [/I]when it's released. A healthy and successful 5e (and 6e in a year) means healthy and successful 3rd Party Publishers. [/QUOTE]
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