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Message: <blockquote data-quote="blakesha" data-source="post: 8893499" data-attributes="member: 6778594">See, I still believe this is FUD. They cannot recind the original license from content that has already been produced from OGL 1.0a. section 9 explicitly states that. You can continue to modify, copy and distribute that content using OGL1.0a. what they are trying to do is for new content. They are trying to say "you can only CREATE content under an authorised license, and the only one will be X". And for 6E the SRD will be bound to X. So if you want to continue to create content for D&D you must use X. The challenge is for 3pp that are using OGL1.0a but not creating content for D&D. By unauthorising OGL 1.0a they don't have a license that will protect them from potentially creating content that infringes on WotC content. The OGL was the safe harbour of "if it's covered in the SRD it doesn't matter". So 3pp could be less "careful" about infringing, and could reuse content from WotC (which includes stat block formats etc). This is a great move by Paizo, but it is still dependent on companies creating SRDs tied to the ORC. And THOSE companies will need to create the SRD so that it does not infringe on WotC IP. Really doesn't help those content creators that just create for D&D. But those creators are already protected for EXISTING content with the constructs of the OGLs. They will just need to ask themselves is their a big enough pool of players for System Y for me to create content for, or am I going to sign up to OGL 2.0 and have Wizards take part of my money and potentially my content and destroy my livelihood with (at the moment) 30 days notice. Not many will answer yes to either of those questions.</blockquote>

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