J.Quondam
CR 1/8
It's. Not. Their. Own. Money.I don’t think they were born yesterday. They want to keep more of their own money. I don’t think that’s stupid. Neither do I think it’s something that’s intrinsically good for the hobby or somehow better than WotC having some of it. They’re all capability entrepreneurs.
Stop saying this, please. This phrasing suggests that the OGL1.0 is somehow equivalent to theft or embezzlement or something. Obviously that is wrong, and suggesting it is not helpful.
WotC is trying to re-gate a few bits of IP that they've had out there for 20+ years, even as they have managed to keep massive amounts of other premium IP neatly cordoned off by regular IP law-- and to the entire industry's satisfaction, to boot. There's zero evidence that they've ever lost a single penny, or that they'd stand to gain much. And there's a pretty fair argument that the cost of having that IP out there all this time has more than been made up for by the 3pps and fans who have helped keep the "D&D lifestyle brand" vigorous enough to monetize today.