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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Prime_Evil" data-source="post: 8872055" data-attributes="member: 11984">Something that has seen little discussion yet. What does the OGL update mean to non-D&D / d20 games published under the license? There are a  lot of them. Everything from the Cepheus Engine to FATE has the OGL attached. Then there's the area of D&D retroclones / spin-offs. These don't use the fifth-edition SRD. What about stuff like Mutants and Masterminds? It started as a D20 game published under the OGL, but became its own thing. Publishers can continue to use the existing version of the OGL, but does this update add legal risk? Representatives from Chaosium argue the use of the OGL by games outside of the D&D / D20 ecosystem is invalid. They already claim legal advice indicates this. So they created of a seperate licence for the Basic Roleplaying System. Many commentators dismissed  this claim as an attempt to create fear and uncertainty. Chaosium have  a vested interest in discouraging the spread of OGL d100 games. There are already things out there like Legend, Delta Green, and Cthulhu Reborn. Do moves to tie the OGL explicitly to WoTC / Hasbro add weight to the legal argument that non-D20 use is invalid? Could it make the use of the OGL by independent games risky in a legal sense?</blockquote>