D&D 5E So, 5e OGL

[Michael Morris]

New thread to avoid necromancy (the old thread is now 5 months since last post). Has the question of whether 5e will be under the OGL been answered?

 

[Riley]

Don't know yet.

Wolfgang Baur (who might know more than anyone else outside WOTC) wrote:

"Do you know what license the next edition of D&D will be released under?

We don’t know, and under our agreement with Wizards, we don’t really need to know in order to design Tyranny of Dragons. Wizards of the Coast is the publisher; Kobold Press is a design studio. It’s a bit similar to the way that a video game studio might create a video game that another, larger firm brings to market.

Will Kobold Press continue to publish products compatible with other RPGs?

Our primary publications are compatible with Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, and our secondary line is the 13th Age RPG. We’ll continue to focus on those games, and others as it makes sense.

The agreement we’re operating under for Tyranny of Dragons is a one-time deal: Kobold Press doesn’t have blanket permission to produce products for the new edition of D&D."

http://www.koboldpress.com/k/front-page18037.php

 

[Morrus]

Nope.

 

[GMforPowergamers]

The agreement we’re operating under for Tyranny of Dragons is a one-time deal: Kobold Press doesn’t have blanket permission to produce products for the new edition of D&D."

http://www.koboldpress.com/k/front-page18037.php

That sounds like the best of both worlds short term leaseing of product with still some control


Might we see more "out sourcing" and less OGL

 

[Morrus]

Latest update from Mearls:

Licensing? No news yet. "It'll be a bit - we want to make sure that when we announce something, we have something to show" says Mike.

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[lkj]

Mearls was asked:

"How long until we hear about what kind of license and software options that will be availible?"

He responded:

"It'll be a bit - we want to make sure that when we announce something, we have something to show"

That's from twitter.

AD

P.S. And of course, I bow to Morrus, master of D&D news, who has slain my feeble attempt to get breaking news.

 

[Knightfall]

I really hope WotC creates an open licensing option for D&D 5E. They need to find a sweet spot in between the OGL and the GSL.

Fingers crossed.

 

[Michael Morris]

Hmm.

4e went out of its way to be as incompatible with OGL products as possible. If 5e isn't OGL then I presume that it too will still contain rules and systems placed there for no purpose other than to be incompatible with competing OGL products. I'm really not interested in incompatibility for its own sake.

Also, while its incredibly unlikely that I will ever publish anything ever again, it would be nice to have that option. If that option doesn't exist with 5e, why should I bother with it??

 

[Halivar]

I hope that the "players can make characters" line for the Starter Edition is an indicator here; if there are no char-gen rules in the box, they will have to be somewhere. An OGL or OGL-like license with an SRD would accomplish this easily.

 

[sidonunspa]

I really hope WotC creates an open licensing option for D&D 5E. They need to find a sweet spot in between the OGL and the GSL.

Fingers crossed.

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