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<blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 8894668" data-attributes="member: 6801845"><p>If existing product is grandfathered in and they give a grace period to give people a chance to change plans or finish existing WIP, I honestly don't see an issue with this. If you're making a million dollars off of someone else's IP, I think you should pay some royalties. A lot of products that attach the OGL probably don't need to do so, you can't copyright game mechanics. But if your product <em>relies </em>on D&D specific rules and IP?</p><p></p><p>As far as the risk of truly objectionable products being associated to D&D, I always assumed that's why they would revoke access. Same with the protections for accidentally copying someone else's material which, given the volume of 3PP, would be easy to do. If people feel "burned" by all of this, all I can say is that you shouldn't be surprised that WOTC is a corporation who's goal it is to make money. A <em>true </em>OGL wouldn't be owned by a single company.</p><p></p><p>For the vast majority of 3PP, it will have no effect. I you're big enough that you would be paying royalties, maybe you should be nudged to make your own system or work with WOTC to create a separate contract outside of the OGL.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Oofta, post: 8894668, member: 6801845"] If existing product is grandfathered in and they give a grace period to give people a chance to change plans or finish existing WIP, I honestly don't see an issue with this. If you're making a million dollars off of someone else's IP, I think you should pay some royalties. A lot of products that attach the OGL probably don't need to do so, you can't copyright game mechanics. But if your product [I]relies [/I]on D&D specific rules and IP? As far as the risk of truly objectionable products being associated to D&D, I always assumed that's why they would revoke access. Same with the protections for accidentally copying someone else's material which, given the volume of 3PP, would be easy to do. If people feel "burned" by all of this, all I can say is that you shouldn't be surprised that WOTC is a corporation who's goal it is to make money. A [I]true [/I]OGL wouldn't be owned by a single company. For the vast majority of 3PP, it will have no effect. I you're big enough that you would be paying royalties, maybe you should be nudged to make your own system or work with WOTC to create a separate contract outside of the OGL. [/QUOTE]
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