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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mannahnin" data-source="post: 8904341" data-attributes="member: 7026594">Who hates WotC?  I think most folks here support WotC in general, have been very happy for D&D to be successful and make billions of dollars, and have been pleasantly amazed at the rising tide of D&D in recent years.  Including the vibrant third party market, which of late has been able to manage things like million dollar kickstarters!  We've seen a wonderful rising tide floating all (or at least all D&D-compatible) boats.  Now WotC, on dubious grounds and in direct contravention of all their prior promises regarding the OGL up until at least November of 2021, more than twenty years, has proposed to unilaterally destroy this very successful arrangement and happy situation that gamers were enjoying.  This golden age and bounty of products.  I think people, especially those who have founded businesses relying on WotC's said promises, have reasonable grounds to be upset.  Even if, or especially if, they have historically supported WotC and its success.  Witness Ginny Di's recent moving video.  This is a woman who has done paid work hyping D&D, for WotC, and clearly loved it.  And now WotC's got her questioning her career.That being said, I don't seem to recall anyone mocking or posting hateful things here about Kyle Brincks, the executive who's signed his name to today's announcement.  Would you be so kind as to link me to any such posts?  I would be happy to also complain to a moderator if people have indeed violated the Eric's grandma rule toward him.We don't know exactly what rationale they'll use.  They may put a clause in the new license.  They may just make it de-facto, as in, they sue people who try to publish new stuff using 1.0a but they never bother doing so with older products.</blockquote>

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