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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 6672736" data-attributes="member: 22424">Yep. And if you're digging into very early Dragon material there are even questions over just how much of it WotC themselves own (since in some cases TSR bought only limited rights, and the contracts aren't always available, even to WotC - one of the issues associated with the "Dragon Archive").Very true. The most likely scenario is that WotC would send a C&D and the product would be pulled immediately. As you note, WotC don't particularly want a lawsuit, and you'd have to be very sure of yourself to want to contest them.Indeed. And, in fact, IIRC they have actually indicated the opposite - I can't now find the relevant tweet, but I thought I'd seen one from a WotC rep indicating that they'd rather people take time to understand the system as-is for the moment, with a view to being ready when WotC do eventually release it under OGL. But I might, of course, be misremembering.It's not entirely unreasonable to ask how long we should be expected to wait out of respect for that request... but equally it's entirely WotC's choice when (or indeed if) to open the system up.Yep. WotC releasing under the OGL would be better for all concerned - 3pp then get to publish in safety, while WotC get to indicate exactly what they want people to play with and what they want to reserve. (The downside being that if they consider too many books of any sort as being bad for the game, then they may well want to discourage any OGL work as far as possible.)</blockquote>

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