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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rcade" data-source="post: 8907787" data-attributes="member: 59231">They're doing serious damage to competitors who did nothing wrong.Paizo published its OGL-licensed Pathfinder products under an agreement that all sides -- Hasbro, Paizo, other OGL licensees -- agree was valid at the time of publication. For 14 years, Paizo improved its rules through massive playtests with input from over 40,000 players.Now Hasbro wants to break an open license and shut down Paizo's ability to improve Pathfinder. It can continue to be published but can't iterate on new editions, even though there's nothing in the original agreement that allows Hasbro to impose new terms.The only reason Hasbro claims it has the power to do this is because it won Paizo's trust with an Open Gaming License that Hasbro promised for 23 years was always going to be around and could never be changed. Gaming companies that trusted the OGL are now in a worse position to compete with Hasbro than those that have never used the license.How's that competition-sabotaging move from the overwhelming market leader going to look in a courtroom?</blockquote>