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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheSword" data-source="post: 8895523" data-attributes="member: 6879661">Well I think for a small design studio $25k is quite a chunk of money but your point only makes my case that this could easily end up going in front of the courts - which is a high risk for both parties and more importantly for the community. I think in your “bring it on”, “watch the world burn” approach you’re missing the point.We benefit from a successful D&D brand that is supported by 3pp. That’s the whole reason why the OGL was put out there. Quality content, plenty of people to play D&D with, and cool ways to play it. If D&D gets spun off into its own orbit and drags 70% of content with it as the reaction to a court case, we all lose. Those that like D&D now miss out on 3pp content. Those that like 3pp now miss out on the stuff the main brand does.You might say bring it on, because you have nothing to risk and everything to gain. Not everyone is so blazé and disdainful.The inability to consider the viewpoint of the other folks at the table means that the baby gets thrown out with the bathwater. Portraying WotC as an aggressor, evil or greedy is myopic. Instead of acknowledging that any company that is looking to invest and secure investment of millions in film, media and digital (which is good for the community) needs to have some control over their IP in order to secure that investment. Any successful brand also becomes a target for bad actors like NuTSR so they also need to control who and what can be published else their brand isn’t really their own. At this stage in WotC’s cycle not fixing these two problems becomes an existential issue for them.Claiming that 3pp are being destroyed is nonsense. Folks can continue to publish without royalties, without theft of their work, pdfs and books under the OGL2.0. That in itself is extremely generous for any company who’s game is so popular. It seems people have lost sight of that in the desire hold onto the past.If folks become so attached to a legally dubious 20 year old license and a court case is forced, either way it’s bad for the community - win or lose. The sad thing is, driven by the mob, several 3pp who have otherwise worked well in past with D&D have now shown their cards and are potentially being encouraged down a road that wouldn’t be good for them or the hobby. I don’t want to see a proliferation of d6 systems that will just fade into obscurity.The Thousand Flowers Blooming idea  is bunkum. They will get trodden on and forgotten. Give me a couple of trees instead please.</blockquote>

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