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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ChaosOS" data-source="post: 8880174" data-attributes="member: 6873939">That doesn't answer the question regarding the OGL; Wizards of the Coast has no ability to claim royalty rights over the characters and world created for CR, which is where all that additional monetization comes from. Even under this draft they can only claim open gaming content, such as subclasses, but they don't automatically gain IP rights to Taldorei even if Darington Press published another book under this 1.1. In fact, I strongly suspect that Darrington Press is a 3PP that's least affected by these changes because they're not a high volume publisher; I would be shocked if their annual revenue was much over a million even in a release year, let alone the off years when it's just trickle sales that may not even cross the $750k royalty threshold.These rights changes are MUCH more clearly pointed at competitor VTTs, especially upstart ones like Foundry and Talespire that don't have licensing agreements with WotC, in an attempt to clear the pathway for their eventual 1D&D VTT.</blockquote>