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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Iosue" data-source="post: 8911055" data-attributes="member: 6680772">I've come to the conclusion that WotC really doesn't care about 3PP content. They're not worried about another Pathfinder stealing 1D&D's thunder, they don't care about the revenue the 3PP market is generating, they probably don't even really care about hate speech content, at least not to the extent they've claimed. The endgame here is ultimately VTT. They have absolute dominance of the print RPG sphere. What they're worried about is someone using the 5.1 and/or 1D&D SRD to create a super awesome VTT that could rival the DND Beyond one.To that end, they want to put strictures on how their SRD content can be used in VTTs. OGL 1.0a didn't give them this power. Ergo, they need to switch to a license that does, and at the same time invalidating the current OGL as far as their content goes.The royalties and all that other stuff in 1.1? That was just, "Since we're doing this anyway, let's shoot for the moon and see what we can get." Given how quickly and easily they dropped it, I don't see the existing 3PP print market as being something they really care about. The key here is the VTT policy. My prediction is that at the end of this process, we'll see something largely akin to the status quo vis-a-vis print 3PP content. It might require some contract language wrangling, but we'll end up with something that allows existing 3PP under 1.0a to continue being printed and sold, previous OGC to be sub-licensed, and any new content under a truly irrevocable license. The various loopholes that people think are trojan horses will be wrapped up, and the morality clause that is their public-facing fig leaf justifying the whole procedure will be modified to terms widely accepted by the community. The VTT policy will even be modified some to make to more palatable to the community, without losing the restrictions that WotC wants to place on DND Beyond competitors.When OGL 1.0 was first conceived and disseminated, WotC wasn't in the video game/application making business. Any such development would be licensed outside the company anyway, so what did they care if someone made a video game or electronic tools using the SRD? Now they are in that business, so OGL 1.0 is no longer compatible with their needs.So I agree with those saying 1.0 is a lost cause. They need it gone to take back control over digital content, the core of their development strategy under current leadership. I don't see any outcome that doesn't end with 1.0a "de-authorized." The best case scenario (at least until there is a challenge in court, if any) is that 1.x will offer functionally the same terms as 1.0a, but only for print and "static media", with options for VTT producers limited under their VTT policy.</blockquote>

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