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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8882497" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>Indeed, and what's particularly concerning is that whilst today that may well genuinely be intended to just "protect WotC", we've seen WotC change their mind completely on this stuff over the course of an edition before. It took what, seven years from the evangelism and optimism of Ryan Dancey creating the OGL to go to a situation where WotC were creating the GSL and attempting to poison-pill the OGL out of existence (a much more gentle attempt than this Death Star-esque deauthorization I admit). So even if WotC today, and Chris Perkins and Jeremy Crawford earnestly believe that this is merely a protection, how will they feel in say, 6-7 years, if the same people in charge are even there? When it's been long-established that WotC has the right to just take your stuff.</p><p></p><p>As an aside, I'd be just terminally unsurprised if Perkins, Crawford or both announce plans to leave WotC and work on their own RPG or whatever either in the next few months or just after 1D&D goes live in 2024, regardless of how OGL 1.1 goes. And oh look they're being replaced by some videogame designers who "love D&D", and "always wanted to work on a TTRPG" (I'm sure that's true, but that's beside the point) and just happen to have worked for Microsoft-connected studios!</p><p></p><p>What would make it acceptable? I think we need to swing it back to OGC, PI, and so on like in the existing approach, and not have the blanket WotC cutout here, because there's just too much chance of future abuse.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8882497, member: 18"] Indeed, and what's particularly concerning is that whilst today that may well genuinely be intended to just "protect WotC", we've seen WotC change their mind completely on this stuff over the course of an edition before. It took what, seven years from the evangelism and optimism of Ryan Dancey creating the OGL to go to a situation where WotC were creating the GSL and attempting to poison-pill the OGL out of existence (a much more gentle attempt than this Death Star-esque deauthorization I admit). So even if WotC today, and Chris Perkins and Jeremy Crawford earnestly believe that this is merely a protection, how will they feel in say, 6-7 years, if the same people in charge are even there? When it's been long-established that WotC has the right to just take your stuff. As an aside, I'd be just terminally unsurprised if Perkins, Crawford or both announce plans to leave WotC and work on their own RPG or whatever either in the next few months or just after 1D&D goes live in 2024, regardless of how OGL 1.1 goes. And oh look they're being replaced by some videogame designers who "love D&D", and "always wanted to work on a TTRPG" (I'm sure that's true, but that's beside the point) and just happen to have worked for Microsoft-connected studios! What would make it acceptable? I think we need to swing it back to OGC, PI, and so on like in the existing approach, and not have the blanket WotC cutout here, because there's just too much chance of future abuse. [/QUOTE]
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