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WotC Talks OGL... Again! Draft Coming Jan 20th With Feedback Survey; v1 De-Auth Still On
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<blockquote data-quote="Greg Benage" data-source="post: 8905327" data-attributes="member: 93631"><p>And if there is something preventing a <em>Willow </em>RPG, it would also apply to any 3PP. In this scenario, Disney is no different from any other third-party publisher.</p><p></p><p>Unless [USER=7031660]@FormerLurker[/USER] is imagining market-cap limitations in the license, or something.</p><p></p><p>All this aside, they've said they have two core goals:</p><p></p><p>(1) protecting and cultivating an inclusive play environment</p><p>(2) limiting the OGL to TTRPGs</p><p></p><p>I'll admit to be more than a little dubious about (1), but I absolutely believe (2). They're not worried about the <em>Willow</em> TTRPG, they're worried Disney, Amazon, Activision, or some other company will do a next-gen SRD-based VTT that blows them out of the water after they've sunk literally hundreds of millions of dollars into it.</p><p></p><p>The only way to do that is to go nuclear on the OGL. But the ironic thing is that, even if the largest companies in the TTRPG space don't have the war chest to resist their lawfare, Disney, Amazon, and Activision sure as hell do. If one of those companies decide they want to produce a next-gen SRD-based VTT that blows WotC out of the water, Wizards' claim to have "taken it back" isn't likely to stop them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Greg Benage, post: 8905327, member: 93631"] And if there is something preventing a [I]Willow [/I]RPG, it would also apply to any 3PP. In this scenario, Disney is no different from any other third-party publisher. Unless [USER=7031660]@FormerLurker[/USER] is imagining market-cap limitations in the license, or something. All this aside, they've said they have two core goals: (1) protecting and cultivating an inclusive play environment (2) limiting the OGL to TTRPGs I'll admit to be more than a little dubious about (1), but I absolutely believe (2). They're not worried about the [I]Willow[/I] TTRPG, they're worried Disney, Amazon, Activision, or some other company will do a next-gen SRD-based VTT that blows them out of the water after they've sunk literally hundreds of millions of dollars into it. The only way to do that is to go nuclear on the OGL. But the ironic thing is that, even if the largest companies in the TTRPG space don't have the war chest to resist their lawfare, Disney, Amazon, and Activision sure as hell do. If one of those companies decide they want to produce a next-gen SRD-based VTT that blows WotC out of the water, Wizards' claim to have "taken it back" isn't likely to stop them. [/QUOTE]
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