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Message: <blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 8882378" data-attributes="member: 5948">Not sure you’re understanding here. This is nothing to do with nuTSR or WotC potentially going after individual publishers based on offensive content. This is about the viability of the licence as a licence.RPG products have long development and lead times. If a publisher commits to a product, writes, edits, commissions art, and prints, we could be looking at 18 months and tens of thousands of dollars in sunk costs. Now WotC seems to be claiming that they can change the licence at will at 30 days notice amd revoke all previous licences so you cant use one of those. That makes it impossible to know what the licence terms will be at publication time when you’re developing a product. You stand a real risk of getting stuck with unsellable books, or having to redesign/reprint at great expense. Fundamentally, a licence is a kind of contract. It sets out the business relationship between parties so that both sides know where they stand and can plan their future moves accordingly. WotC is claiming the right to rewrite that contract, at will, for everyone, at any time. Many publishers will likely decide that’s not a business environment they can work in. This is peoples’ livelihoods we’re talking here, and WotC is suddenly asserting that the OGL will offer zero certainty going forward, and anyone relying on it for their business is building castles on sand.</blockquote>

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