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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 8899442" data-attributes="member: 6801845">I understand that change is scary.  On the other hand I see no evidence that they are trying to destroy anyone's livelihood.  If an OGL 2.0 gets released, if I were a 3PP I'd wait for the inevitable lawsuit to see if they even can revoke the OGL 1.0a.  But this idea that they want to shut everyone else down?  Why would they?  There's little to no money in writing adventure mods for them.  The core books on the other hand have a very, very long tail and are still selling in the tens of thousand per month.  That's pretty good for an investment you made close to a decade ago.  In addition, they're looking at other sources such as movies, streamed series, etc. As long as people have to buy their core books to use the 3PP, it's just other people doing their work for them.  Unless you mark your text as PI they (and everyone else) can already copy it.  But they haven't with the exception of two monsters in a 3.5 supplement. Could they do all these terrible things people keep talking about?  I guess.  I see no reason to believe they will.  People keep talking about how the sky is falling and that WOTC is practically the second coming of a Nazi regime.  But if you write a product that requires the core D&D books, I see no reason to worry.  They want you.  If you just want to write something that uses rules similar to D&D then I'd be looking at the ORC.  In addition, it sounds like they did listen and have changed, it seems that anything current or published within 6 months after OGL 2.0 will be able to use 1.0a.I've had companies I worked for slowly go bankrupt, get sold or the only way to keep my job would have required 100% travel.  I understand that change can be terrifying.  Maybe I'm wrong and they want to be the only game in town because they really are that dumb (and I wouldn't put it past high level execs to be that dumb).  I just think that 6 months from now when the dust has settled people will realize that WOTC is not Evil Inc..  Or not, and I'll have a big sad face and post a "you were right".  I just wouldn't bet on that sad face.</blockquote>

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