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WotC Announces OGL 1.1 -- Revised Terms, Royalties, and Annual Revenue Reporting
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<blockquote data-quote="Greg Benage" data-source="post: 8867032" data-attributes="member: 93631"><p>I'm glad they're committed to releasing a 1D&D SRD. However, I'd note they don't <em>have</em> to make <em>anything </em>in the 1D&D SRD Open Game Content, which would effectively be the same as having no 1D&D SRD with respect to Section 9 and previous versions of the OGL. Previous SRDs have designated all content in the document except PI as OGC, but that obviously isn't mandatory.</p><p></p><p>Maybe the new SRD designates content you could pull from the 5.1 SRD anyway as Open Game Content, but designates new content as One Game Content (just to have confusing acronyms), which can only be used by third parties publishing under the 1.1 OGL. If they change enough things like class tables and spell lists and then designate those things as One Game Content, they could conceivably make it difficult to hang 1D&D-based content on a previous version of the license.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, that would be the kind of strategy that would make sense of the "why would anyone use this?" question, given Section 9. I'll be very interested to see what they do with monsters. If they high-board off <em>Monsters of the Multiverse</em> and really revamp the way they handle monsters, then they're cooking with Crisco in my opinion.</p><p></p><p>All speculation, obviously, but I think they clearly have a path to work around Section 9 if that's what they want to do.</p><p></p><p>ETA: I'd also strengthen my language if I don't want someone retro-clowning me: "Any Work that uses One Game Content is subject to the terms of the Open Game License v1.1."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Greg Benage, post: 8867032, member: 93631"] I'm glad they're committed to releasing a 1D&D SRD. However, I'd note they don't [I]have[/I] to make [I]anything [/I]in the 1D&D SRD Open Game Content, which would effectively be the same as having no 1D&D SRD with respect to Section 9 and previous versions of the OGL. Previous SRDs have designated all content in the document except PI as OGC, but that obviously isn't mandatory. Maybe the new SRD designates content you could pull from the 5.1 SRD anyway as Open Game Content, but designates new content as One Game Content (just to have confusing acronyms), which can only be used by third parties publishing under the 1.1 OGL. If they change enough things like class tables and spell lists and then designate those things as One Game Content, they could conceivably make it difficult to hang 1D&D-based content on a previous version of the license. Anyway, that would be the kind of strategy that would make sense of the "why would anyone use this?" question, given Section 9. I'll be very interested to see what they do with monsters. If they high-board off [I]Monsters of the Multiverse[/I] and really revamp the way they handle monsters, then they're cooking with Crisco in my opinion. All speculation, obviously, but I think they clearly have a path to work around Section 9 if that's what they want to do. ETA: I'd also strengthen my language if I don't want someone retro-clowning me: "Any Work that uses One Game Content is subject to the terms of the Open Game License v1.1." [/QUOTE]
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