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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8869841" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>Not as far as I know, unless that video was a VERY long time ago. When was it? (I'm not a big YouTube guy)</p><p></p><p>People had been talking about this since 1D&D was announced, speculating whether the OGL would be changed (including on these boards, I think). That was what, in the summer? August I think. People on social media I follow had been fairly concerned that the OGL might be going away for, I'd have to check Twitter and some Discords, but I'd say <em>at least</em> a couple of months on and off.</p><p></p><p>There's sort of annoying anti-D&D bunch of people on Twitter who I follow for other reasons (mostly because they've got good memes), who have a real <em>Tsundere</em> relationship to D&D and they'd been increasingly worried about the OGL for quite some time. And sure a bunch of them are doomsayers and couple act like they'd be happy if D&D went away (but again see <em>Tsundere</em>), but the concern was there.</p><p></p><p>WotC themselves made a non-statement statement about the OGL being something they were thinking about what seems like a couple of weeks or more back, but perhaps someone could correct me on that. I'm guessing the video was less than a month ago? Maybe less than two weeks ago? My impression was that there was some video fairly recently that was merely cynically capitalizing on what was already a common sentiment, in order to get them clicks, likes and subscribes, and maybe this finally pushed the issue high enough that WotC noticed, but like, it was already an issue (hence WotC's previous non-statement).</p><p></p><p>EDIT FOR EXAMPLE, here's a guy talking about the OGL for 1D&D September 1st: <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/jbe-one-d-d-blog.691108/post-8756760" target="_blank">JBE One D&D Blog</a></p><p></p><p>Literally speculating there might not be an OGL and they could fix that by releasing one.</p><p></p><p>That was 115 days ago. Nearly 1/3rd of a year. Absolutely not "out of nowhere". That's not the only post, just one that was easy to find. That's like, what, not even 2 weeks after 1D&D was announced.</p><p></p><p>EDIT 2: Here's entire-ass article speculating about the OGL going away a SINGLE WEEK after 1D&D was announced! <a href="https://jonbrazer.com/2022/08/25/one-dnd-ogl-going-away-in-6e/" target="_blank">One DnD: OGL Going Away in 6e</a></p><p></p><p>So yeah we can conclusively say:</p><p></p><p>A) No, this didn't "come out of nowhere".</p><p></p><p>and</p><p></p><p>B) It ain't because of that video.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8869841, member: 18"] Not as far as I know, unless that video was a VERY long time ago. When was it? (I'm not a big YouTube guy) People had been talking about this since 1D&D was announced, speculating whether the OGL would be changed (including on these boards, I think). That was what, in the summer? August I think. People on social media I follow had been fairly concerned that the OGL might be going away for, I'd have to check Twitter and some Discords, but I'd say [I]at least[/I] a couple of months on and off. There's sort of annoying anti-D&D bunch of people on Twitter who I follow for other reasons (mostly because they've got good memes), who have a real [I]Tsundere[/I] relationship to D&D and they'd been increasingly worried about the OGL for quite some time. And sure a bunch of them are doomsayers and couple act like they'd be happy if D&D went away (but again see [I]Tsundere[/I]), but the concern was there. WotC themselves made a non-statement statement about the OGL being something they were thinking about what seems like a couple of weeks or more back, but perhaps someone could correct me on that. I'm guessing the video was less than a month ago? Maybe less than two weeks ago? My impression was that there was some video fairly recently that was merely cynically capitalizing on what was already a common sentiment, in order to get them clicks, likes and subscribes, and maybe this finally pushed the issue high enough that WotC noticed, but like, it was already an issue (hence WotC's previous non-statement). EDIT FOR EXAMPLE, here's a guy talking about the OGL for 1D&D September 1st: [URL='https://www.enworld.org/threads/jbe-one-d-d-blog.691108/post-8756760']JBE One D&D Blog[/URL] Literally speculating there might not be an OGL and they could fix that by releasing one. That was 115 days ago. Nearly 1/3rd of a year. Absolutely not "out of nowhere". That's not the only post, just one that was easy to find. That's like, what, not even 2 weeks after 1D&D was announced. EDIT 2: Here's entire-ass article speculating about the OGL going away a SINGLE WEEK after 1D&D was announced! [URL='https://jonbrazer.com/2022/08/25/one-dnd-ogl-going-away-in-6e/']One DnD: OGL Going Away in 6e[/URL] So yeah we can conclusively say: A) No, this didn't "come out of nowhere". and B) It ain't because of that video. [/QUOTE]
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