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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 8898720" data-attributes="member: 7006">All of these things could and should happen.Because otherwise what we have right now is nothing more than a Sword of Damocles hanging over every single would-be D&Dish-producer's head, with WotC not even needing to have their hand on the hilt.  As far as I can remember... we have not seen a single person or entity even be threatened by WotC for using their stuff since the OGL has been released into the wild... even when they didn't use the OGL.  All we have are all these designers and producers who assume WotC will come down hard upon them.  But does anyone actually know for sure?  I'm not sure there are.  Does anyone know of anyone who has been?If the "You don't even need to use the OGL" people are right... then everyone can just release whatever stuff they want right now with or without any licensing at all-- provided they are willing to "risk it".  But if WotC themselves already know they have no leg to stand on as far as people needing their "permission" to make D&D-compatible products... then all they have is that Sword overhead that can't actually do anything (other than look threatening.)So yeah... whether it's Paizo or someone else... someone NEEDS to call WotC's bluff.  Because once they do (even if WotC then tries to take them to court)... the flood gates will open and everyone will start making products that can still work with D&D 5E/1D&D and WotC'll have no choice to try and sue all of them.  Or else... do what I expect they intended to do all along... which is just product a 3DVTT that works well enough that more than enough Dungeons & Dragons fans will subscribe to and use it... and then 3rd party producers be damned.  Let those small potato companies make PDFs for the shrinking pool of players who play at home without using VTTs, while they see their pool keep getting larger and larger (where even tables that play face-to-face in person still use the 3DVTT with monitors in front of everyone.)  At that point, who cares what those 3PPs do?</blockquote>

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