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<blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 8916788" data-attributes="member: 8461"><p>I swear, this article is what happens when you have people who aren't tabletop RPG gamers reporting on what's happening in our community.</p><p></p><p>Now, I'll admit up front that all I know about the person who wrote that article is what's in the bio at the end. It talks about them being a PC gamer, and only mentions RPGs in that context. Given that it looks like a standard cut-and-paste bio, maybe they're a lifelong tabletop gamer and that just wasn't put there. But it doesn't sound like it; or if they are, they don't know very much about the OGL, because this misses critical context by presenting this entire debacle as an issue of third-party 5E products.</p><p></p><p>Let's leave aside for a moment the issues regarding D&D's dominance of the tabletop RPG market, and instead realize that there are quite a few other RPGs out there – RPGs which this writer says we should be giving a chance – which were made because of the OGL, and which are imperiled because they rely on the 3.5 SRD, something that almost certainly won't be ported over to Paizo's ORC License, probably won't be put under CC (and if so, expect it to be just a fraction), and may or may not be put under the v1.2 OGL which no one apparently wants to sign.</p><p></p><p>I've said several times now, in various threads here, how games like Pathfinder 1E, Mutants & Masterminds, and various OSR retro-clones are all looking at potentially vanishing due to the uncertainty swirling around the current circumstances, because that keeps getting lost in the discussion. Hell, I'm still not sure how well Paizo's plans to publish Starfinder and Pathfinder 2E without the OGL will really work (presuming that WotC elects to file suit against them, which seems iffy).</p><p></p><p>There's more to this than the 5E third-party community, and I wish the reporting in the wider gaming press would reflect that, but it never seems to because so many of them don't understand the full scope of exactly what they're talking about.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alzrius, post: 8916788, member: 8461"] I swear, this article is what happens when you have people who aren't tabletop RPG gamers reporting on what's happening in our community. Now, I'll admit up front that all I know about the person who wrote that article is what's in the bio at the end. It talks about them being a PC gamer, and only mentions RPGs in that context. Given that it looks like a standard cut-and-paste bio, maybe they're a lifelong tabletop gamer and that just wasn't put there. But it doesn't sound like it; or if they are, they don't know very much about the OGL, because this misses critical context by presenting this entire debacle as an issue of third-party 5E products. Let's leave aside for a moment the issues regarding D&D's dominance of the tabletop RPG market, and instead realize that there are quite a few other RPGs out there – RPGs which this writer says we should be giving a chance – which were made because of the OGL, and which are imperiled because they rely on the 3.5 SRD, something that almost certainly won't be ported over to Paizo's ORC License, probably won't be put under CC (and if so, expect it to be just a fraction), and may or may not be put under the v1.2 OGL which no one apparently wants to sign. I've said several times now, in various threads here, how games like Pathfinder 1E, Mutants & Masterminds, and various OSR retro-clones are all looking at potentially vanishing due to the uncertainty swirling around the current circumstances, because that keeps getting lost in the discussion. Hell, I'm still not sure how well Paizo's plans to publish Starfinder and Pathfinder 2E without the OGL will really work (presuming that WotC elects to file suit against them, which seems iffy). There's more to this than the 5E third-party community, and I wish the reporting in the wider gaming press would reflect that, but it never seems to because so many of them don't understand the full scope of exactly what they're talking about. [/QUOTE]
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