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<blockquote data-quote="Abstruse" data-source="post: 8869396" data-attributes="member: 6669048">There's some confusion over their statement. About software, they say that 1.1 is making it clear that's not allowed under v1.1. They use the term &quot;never intended&quot; to talk about merch.&quot;D&amp;D merchandise, like minis and novels, were never intended to be part of the OGL and OGL 1.1 won’t change that.&quot;Which, frankly, is kinda funny because those don't need licenses, OGL or otherwise. Any novel written isn't going to be using game mechanics in the novel itself (outside of novels parodying TTRPGs like in the style of The Gamers) so they shouldn't be using the OGL, and miniatures also don't need game mechanics as they're just scale miniatures of mythological creatures. I can't think of a single monster that's not already designated WotC IP (beholders, mind flayers, etc.) that are in the SRD but are not in the public domain from their use in folklore. You could try to argue that D&amp;D trolls don't look like mythological trolls, but that's a hard case to make.I'm honestly not sure why they felt the need to highlight that in the D&amp;D Beyond post now that I think about it. The only thing I can think of would be something like Critical Role making minis and t-shirts based off their characters without a license? Well not Critical Role because the fan backlash would put the &quot;T$R&quot; era to shame and the two companies seem to have a good working relationship, but possibly other streams or YouTube videos doing something similar.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Abstruse, post: 8869396, member: 6669048"] There's some confusion over their statement. About software, they say that 1.1 is making it clear that's not allowed [I]under v1.1[/I]. They use the term "never intended" to talk about merch. "D&D merchandise, like minis and novels, were never intended to be part of the OGL and OGL 1.1 won’t change that." Which, frankly, is kinda funny because those don't need licenses, OGL or otherwise. Any novel written isn't going to be using game mechanics in the novel itself (outside of novels parodying TTRPGs like in the style of [I]The Gamers[/I]) so they shouldn't be using the OGL, and miniatures also don't need game mechanics as they're just scale miniatures of mythological creatures. I can't think of a single monster that's not already designated WotC IP (beholders, mind flayers, etc.) that [I]are [/I]in the SRD but [I]are not [/I]in the public domain from their use in folklore. You could try to argue that D&D trolls don't look like mythological trolls, but that's a hard case to make. I'm honestly not sure why they felt the need to highlight that in the D&D Beyond post now that I think about it. The only thing I can think of would be something like Critical Role making minis and t-shirts based off their characters without a license? Well not Critical Role because the fan backlash would put the "T$R" era to shame and the two companies seem to have a good working relationship, but possibly other streams or YouTube videos doing something similar. [/QUOTE]

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