We Still Need ORC

[Dreamscape]

I had missed that! Is there an ORC Discord? Public or private?

There is a sign-up link in this Paizo blog post: paizo.com - Community / Paizo Blog

It's aimed at OGL publishers who might want to switch to the ORC licence going forwards, so it's not really a general public discussion forum.

 

[GMforPowergamers]

Except no changes were made to ensure they can't make another attempt next week or next year. Why would a company feel comfortable continuing to publish under OGL 1.0a?

I am of the understanding that the creative commons thing stops that

 

[Parmandur]

Kyle Brink said on World Builder Bob's channel that WotC may go into ORC themselves.

 

[Reynard]

Kyle Brink said on World Builder Bob's channel that WotC may go into ORC themselves.

That's like letting Black Adam join the JSA.

 

[dave2008]

Absolutely we do. Wizards can yank the OGL 1.0a at any time. They only gave a promise on a social media post. That promise - with no legal backing at all - is the only thing that is keeping alive Pathfinder, Dungeon Crawl Classics, Old School Essentials, and most other games not explicitly based on 5th edition.

Of note, Kyle Brings said WotC would be interested in participating and possibly signing onto ORC (in the latest interview)

 

[dave2008]

Except no changes were made to ensure they can't make another attempt next week or next year. Why would a company feel comfortable continuing to publish under OGL 1.0a?

Then use CC?

 

[tetrasodium]

That's like letting Black Adam join the JSA.

The analogy isn't wrong, but it's not quite right either. People thought similar things when Microsoft started funding & contributing to open source projects years back;but today Microsoft is one of the largest contributors to OSS. If the goal is a thriving community its best for the big players to cooperate well enough to shsre a friendly stage without fear of the other hiding a knife behind the curtain. Wotc giving ORC a thumbs up that makes it easy to produce an ORC adventure with a CC4BY & maybe even ogl section because then they get things like paizo's 5e abomination vault years ago instead of more recently/coming soon editr a hypothetical rising from the last war for other systems if they are really serious like Microsoft with its various Mac ios Android & *nix software offerings.

 

[GMforPowergamers]

That's like letting Black Adam join the JSA.

You know if Black Adam founded the team, and was the primary source of the team...

 

[Reynard]

You know if Black Adam founded the team, and was the primary source of the team...

By founded do you mean "brought together to oppose"?

 

[Reynard]

Then use CC?

If WotC had released all the SRDs (including a complete 5E SRD) under Share Alike it probably would have been fine, but without that it kind of undermines the intent of the OGL.