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<blockquote data-quote="mamba" data-source="post: 9209544" data-attributes="member: 7034611">My take on this is to mostly do things that are good for D&amp;D as well, and not be a jerk to the competition.Much like the founders of the OGL said, what benefits roleplaying ultimately benefits D&amp;D, so bringing more people into the hobby, making it easier to join and play, more accessible, more ubiquitous, and doing so with an eye on the ecosystem, so bringing attention to 3pps, like they recently did on DDB. Have 3pps on DDB, while also continuing to make D&amp;D available for other VTTs than their own.Looking a bit ahead, release an SRD for 2024, maybe even include a bit more in it, if Paizo can have everything available for free and LU can have pretty much everything in an SRD, then I do not see why WotC cannot be more permissive as well.If you wan to look to the digital side, have the equivalent to the CC SRD for the VTT side.&nbsp; As I said before, create some open formats for data exchange to support integration across different VTTs, or at least provide APIs in their own VTT for third parties to hook into.This would probably even benefit WotC more than the competition, because if I can access my DDB modules on any VTT, then I buy on DDB while the others miss out on the sales. The benefit to the users is that they know they can freely move between VTTs instead of being locked into one. So yeah, there are some moves that I consider good even though they have the potential to negatively affect the competition, the difference is that they are being done to open things up, not to lock people in.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mamba, post: 9209544, member: 7034611"] My take on this is to mostly do things that are good for D&D as well, and not be a jerk to the competition. Much like the founders of the OGL said, what benefits roleplaying ultimately benefits D&D, so bringing more people into the hobby, making it easier to join and play, more accessible, more ubiquitous, and doing so with an eye on the ecosystem, so bringing attention to 3pps, like they recently did on DDB. Have 3pps on DDB, while also continuing to make D&D available for other VTTs than their own. Looking a bit ahead, release an SRD for 2024, maybe even include a bit more in it, if Paizo can have everything available for free and LU can have pretty much everything in an SRD, then I do not see why WotC cannot be more permissive as well. If you wan to look to the digital side, have the equivalent to the CC SRD for the VTT side. As I said before, create some open formats for data exchange to support integration across different VTTs, or at least provide APIs in their own VTT for third parties to hook into. This would probably even benefit WotC more than the competition, because if I can access my DDB modules on any VTT, then I buy on DDB while the others miss out on the sales. The benefit to the users is that they know they can freely move between VTTs instead of being locked into one. So yeah, there are some moves that I consider good even though they have the potential to negatively affect the competition, the difference is that they are being done to open things up, not to lock people in. [/QUOTE]

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