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Message: <blockquote data-quote="innerdude" data-source="post: 8834855" data-attributes="member: 85870">There's more to it as well than to just what is licensable from the actual rules text and fluff. If it's a digital platform, are they going to make some areas extensible for third-party programmers? What pieces of the code? How must third-party code that extends D&D One be licensed? What pieces of the platform are off limits? What's the connection between how the platform runs and how content is stored? How must third-party content be integrated into the data storage format? How will art, stored digitally, be protected, correctly attributed, and either included or excluded from image generation AI platforms, should WotC choose to use one for certain creative endeavors?There's a mountain of legal and licensing concerns that frankly dwarf how the exact wording of a particular feat looks in the new license. And let's be frank too, there's a portion of WotC's audience that will be displeased and vocalize that displeasure even if WotC were to give away every inch of the IP for nothing. Is a more open license more preferable than something that is not open? Of course. Does it make financial sense for WotC to evaluate how previous licensing agreements worked for them, and determine if a different licensing model is in fact in their best interest? Of course it does.It's frankly not WotC's job to try and suss out just exactly how productive one version of a license versus another is for hundreds of third-party producers; that's the 3pp's job. Should WotC consider 3pp input when doing the consideration? Yes, if they're interested in being a good long-term business partner. But they're certainly not obligated to in any cosmic moral sense. Getting burn back now, 2 years ahead of whatever the final product release ends up being, is nuts.If I own a retail store that sells fresh fish, I can't really be angry if my local fisherman decides he/she is better off selling tuna to Fishmongers United instead of selling tilapia to me (assuming all contractual obligations are otherwise met).</blockquote>

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