Nah thats not enough. OGL is done.

The whole thing has hinged on a 20 year old agreement that was little more than ‘trust me bro, we wont sue you if you make stuff compatible with ours’. It was created in itself because by the time we got to ~2001 WOTC had become well known as a greedy manipulative corporate thing not…

Here it is as basically as I can possibly explain (hold onto your shorts, friend):

DnD is a mechanical game system for TTRPG play. In 2000, the company that now owns the IP, WotC (Wizards of the Coast) issued an OPEN GAMING LICENSE (the OGL referenced here) which was a LEGAL DOCUMENT of rights which they provided so…

This is the most short sighted and tone deaf response I’ve seen. I can only assume you have no functional knowledge of how IPs, and OGLs work, so I’ll give you the 30 second rundown.

I just want to say Linda, keep it up!

I’ve been playing for 40 years, and I still remember the red box I recieved as a gift fondly. It lead to many hours of entertainment, adventure, laughter, and grand story telling. The shame for me is that I was getting a bit excited for the DnDOne changes that were on the horizon. Now, I don’t really care. I have…

I’ve played through every edition. I had a master subscription, had every non adventure book on there. And its now canceled and done with, and I doubt I’ll be playing D&D again after this.

The outrage comes from the fact a trusted brand should not have been trusted to begin with. I agree that a capitalist is going to have to capitalize eventually. Scorpion is going to sting.

The problem here is that they don’t really have a leg to stand on. This isn’t, for example, a somehow profitable fan-fic about tiny…

Paizo is already planning to stop using WotC’s OGL and form one with other publishers. Along with giving it to a non-profit organization to avoid something like this happening in the future. They admitted they designed Pathfinder 2e to use almost no wordage or phrasing from D&D systems and only included the OGL…

WotC/Hasbro were almost certainly not the ones who leaked the document. Either it was partners they sent the doc to, or individual employees that disagreed with it, but the leak was not corporate intent.

Just to add to this, the other big thing they avoid talking about is Open Gaming Content.

“The drafts that io9 received were not a thoughtexperiment. They were intended to gauge a reaction, but not from the public at large; for all intents and purposes, the OGL 1.1 that was leaked to the press was supposed to go forward.”

Important to note they still intend to deauthorize the OGL 1.0a, based on this.

when i tell you something, believe me, i got sources to back it up

I signed up. I also cancelled my D&D Beyond subscription today. Well done Paizo! Changed my youtube channel (Perilous Pursuits) logo to #OpenDND #ORC

WOTC:  “I knew it was you, Paizo.  You broke my heart.  You broke my heart.”

They are “scrambling”? Really? Are you seriously telling me they had not anticipated this?

that would take 3000 words, but here’s the other article! https://gizmodo.com/dnd-wizards-of-the-coast-ogl-1-1-open-gaming-license-1849950634

They link to the previous article all about it in the first paragraph.

“the company is scrambling to formulate a response”