I don't know much if this will help, but check out this web page from the Wizard's of the Coast website and see if it doesn't make things a bit more clearer.
SRD - Systems Reference Document
OGL - Open Gaming License
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SRD is basically the "basic rules" of the game. With the OGL, game developers independent of WotC can use the SRD to develop and sell products for D&D 5e or even whole new games using the 5e engine at its core (products which are often called third party content in these forums). The "controversy" the article is trying to address was allegation that with One D&D WotC wanted to close off third party access to whatever One D&D Becomes. It seems that's not the case, but WotC does want to track third party developers proceeds (earnings) and command royalties from the highest earners in the D&D third party ecosystem.
For many D&D Beyond users, especially those who only use exclusively WotC "official content" this doesn't or won't matter to them. It will have the most impact on third party developers and consequently those D&D players who enjoy third party content, as the new arrangement may frustrate third party projects in the D&D space.
SRD is basically the "basic rules" of the game. With the OGL, game developers independent of WotC can use the SRD to develop and sell products for D&D 5e or even whole new games using the 5e engine at its core (products which are often called third party content in these forums). The "controversy" the article is trying to address was allegation that with One D&D WotC wanted to close off third party access to whatever One D&D Becomes. It seems that's not the case, but WotC does want to track third party developers proceeds (earnings) and command royalties from the highest earners in the D&D third party ecosystem.
For many D&D Beyond users, especially those who only use exclusively WotC "official content" this doesn't or won't matter to them. It will have the most impact on third party developers and consequently those D&D players who enjoy third party content, as the new arrangement may frustrate third party projects in the D&D space.
Don't know how to put it more simply than that,.
If you're an entity that earns $750,000 a year in revenue on products that utilize the open gaming license, you should be able to afford to compensate the IP holders for making you that profitable. What started as a hobby is now a lucrative business. Do you like capitalism? This is capitalism and if your revenues are three quarters of a million dollars a year then you really do owe your lifestyle to to this IP identity you're building your very profitable business model around.
Basically if you the homebrew you publish earns you less than $50,000 a year, you have absolute nothing to even consider other than the specific items in the system reference document (SRD). You cannot publish anything unless you consider that.
If you make more than $50,000 a year in revenue on products that use the OGL and/or the SRD, WotC wants to know about it.
If you make more than $750,000 a year in revenue on products that use the OGL and/or the SRD, WotC wants some royalties.
SRD is basically the "basic rules" of the game. With the OGL, game developers independent of WotC can use the SRD to develop and sell products for D&D 5e or even whole new games using the 5e engine at its core (products which are often called third party content in these forums). The "controversy" the article is trying to address was allegation that with One D&D WotC wanted to close off third party access to whatever One D&D Becomes. It seems that's not the case, but WotC does want to track third party developers proceeds (earnings) and command royalties from the highest earners in the D&D third party ecosystem.
For many D&D Beyond users, especially those who only use exclusively WotC "official content" this doesn't or won't matter to them. It will have the most impact on third party developers and consequently those D&D players who enjoy third party content, as the new arrangement may frustrate third party projects in the D&D space.
Don't know how to put it more simply than that,.
If you're an entity that earns $750,000 a year in revenue on products that utilize the open gaming license, you should be able to afford to compensate the IP holders for making you that profitable. What started as a hobby is now a lucrative business. Do you like capitalism? This is capitalism and if your revenues are three quarters of a million dollars a year then you really do owe your lifestyle to to this IP identity you're building your very profitable business model around.
$750,000 in sales might only be $350,000 in profits depending on what you actually make. Print products cost beaucoup bucks to produce and distribute. If WotC decides they want $100,00 from you, now all of a sudden you might not making enough profit to make it worth the work. Especially if you have to split it 2-3 ways.
SRD is basically the "basic rules" of the game. With the OGL, game developers independent of WotC can use the SRD to develop and sell products for D&D 5e or even whole new games using the 5e engine at its core (products which are often called third party content in these forums). The "controversy" the article is trying to address was allegation that with One D&D WotC wanted to close off third party access to whatever One D&D Becomes. It seems that's not the case, but WotC does want to track third party developers proceeds (earnings) and command royalties from the highest earners in the D&D third party ecosystem.
For many D&D Beyond users, especially those who only use exclusively WotC "official content" this doesn't or won't matter to them. It will have the most impact on third party developers and consequently those D&D players who enjoy third party content, as the new arrangement may frustrate third party projects in the D&D space.
Don't know how to put it more simply than that,.
If you're an entity that earns $750,000 a year in revenue on products that utilize the open gaming license, you should be able to afford to compensate the IP holders for making you that profitable. What started as a hobby is now a lucrative business. Do you like capitalism? This is capitalism and if your revenues are three quarters of a million dollars a year then you really do owe your lifestyle to to this IP identity you're building your very profitable business model around.
$750,000 in sales might only be $350,000 in profits depending on what you actually make. Print products cost beaucoup bucks to produce and distribute. If WotC decides they want $100,00 from you, now all of a sudden you might not making enough profit to make it worth the work. Especially if you have to split it 2-3 ways.
We don't know what % royalties WotC is asking for. How many entities actually hit that threshold that royalties are required? Those conversations are either already complete or close to it. If an entities profit margin is significantly effected by a royalty fee, I cannot imagine any scenario would exist where WotC would insist on a royalty that makes your entity unporfitable. They all want to make money, and if your cut is $758,000 with expenses of 700,000, I cannot see WotC imposing a $58,000 or more royalty on you operation. They want to make as much money as you want to, and putting you out of business is not going to help anyone.
Somehow a thread that started "I'm too [redacted] to Google these terms, someone else do it for me," transitioned into a self-admittedly uninformed economics debate. Lol.
I just wanted to point out, in case it was missed, if you have revenue of $758,000, then the royalties would only be a % of $8,000. The first $750,000 is royalty-free.
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I just wanted to point out, in case it was missed, if you have revenue of $758,000, then the royalties would only be a % of $8,000. The first $750,000 is royalty-free.
What does revenue under $750,000 will be royalty free mean?
For creators making more than $750,000 annually, this means they don’t owe royalties on their first $750,000 of revenue. So for instance if a creator was making $800,000 a year, they would only owe royalties on $50,000 of that revenue.
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Cool, thank you. I hadn’t seen that before. Where was that released?
Probably right after all the click-bait videos from totally real "lawyers" and "data scientists" posted their reactionary "WoTC is evil and greedy" videos splashed all over youtube.
Probably right after all the click-bait videos from totally real "lawyers" and "data scientists" posted their reactionary "WoTC is evil and greedy" videos splashed all over youtube.
People typically don't like looking at the actual facts when the alternative is panicking.
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but it doesnt mentioned the bullet point Sil referenced. That may be from another document, i've seen additional details like this pop up here and there.
but it doesnt mentioned the bullet point Sil referenced. That may be from another document, i've seen additional details like this pop up here and there.
Thank you, but I’ve already read that one. I was hoping for the link to the thing that Q&A Sillvva quoted from so I could read the rest of the questions and answers.
I have no clue what OGL and SRD stand for. Way to explain it in your article so it makes sense.
I don't know much if this will help, but check out this web page from the Wizard's of the Coast website and see if it doesn't make things a bit more clearer.
SRD - Systems Reference Document
OGL - Open Gaming License
#Open D&D
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SRD is basically the "basic rules" of the game. With the OGL, game developers independent of WotC can use the SRD to develop and sell products for D&D 5e or even whole new games using the 5e engine at its core (products which are often called third party content in these forums). The "controversy" the article is trying to address was allegation that with One D&D WotC wanted to close off third party access to whatever One D&D Becomes. It seems that's not the case, but WotC does want to track third party developers proceeds (earnings) and command royalties from the highest earners in the D&D third party ecosystem.
For many D&D Beyond users, especially those who only use exclusively WotC "official content" this doesn't or won't matter to them. It will have the most impact on third party developers and consequently those D&D players who enjoy third party content, as the new arrangement may frustrate third party projects in the D&D space.
Don't know how to put it more simply than that,.
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If you're an entity that earns $750,000 a year in revenue on products that utilize the open gaming license, you should be able to afford to compensate the IP holders for making you that profitable. What started as a hobby is now a lucrative business. Do you like capitalism? This is capitalism and if your revenues are three quarters of a million dollars a year then you really do owe your lifestyle to to this IP identity you're building your very profitable business model around.
Basically if you the homebrew you publish earns you less than $50,000 a year, you have absolute nothing to even consider other than the specific items in the system reference document (SRD). You cannot publish anything unless you consider that.
If you make more than $50,000 a year in revenue on products that use the OGL and/or the SRD, WotC wants to know about it.
If you make more than $750,000 a year in revenue on products that use the OGL and/or the SRD, WotC wants some royalties.
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$750,000 in sales might only be $350,000 in profits depending on what you actually make. Print products cost beaucoup bucks to produce and distribute. If WotC decides they want $100,00 from you, now all of a sudden you might not making enough profit to make it worth the work. Especially if you have to split it 2-3 ways.
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We don't know what % royalties WotC is asking for. How many entities actually hit that threshold that royalties are required? Those conversations are either already complete or close to it. If an entities profit margin is significantly effected by a royalty fee, I cannot imagine any scenario would exist where WotC would insist on a royalty that makes your entity unporfitable. They all want to make money, and if your cut is $758,000 with expenses of 700,000, I cannot see WotC imposing a $58,000 or more royalty on you operation. They want to make as much money as you want to, and putting you out of business is not going to help anyone.
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Cool, thank you. I hadn’t seen that before. Where was that released?
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Probably right after all the click-bait videos from totally real "lawyers" and "data scientists" posted their reactionary "WoTC is evil and greedy" videos splashed all over youtube.
People typically don't like looking at the actual facts when the alternative is panicking.
BoringBard's long and tedious posts somehow manage to enrapture audiences. How? Because he used Charm Person, the #1 bard spell!
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HERE.Well I for one would love to look at the facts. Anyone got that link?
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If a moderator on an official website owned by Wizards of the Coast says that the company informed them of something, then that something seems to be fact enough. (Does this count as a link?)
BoringBard's long and tedious posts somehow manage to enrapture audiences. How? Because he used Charm Person, the #1 bard spell!
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HERE.well this is the article on DNDB: https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1410-ogls-srds-one-d-d
but it doesnt mentioned the bullet point Sil referenced. That may be from another document, i've seen additional details like this pop up here and there.
This thread has gotten slightly off-topic lol.
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HERE.It is in fact a link, but since I wanted to read the rest of the Q&A, it doesn’t help me at all.
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Thank you, but I’ve already read that one. I was hoping for the link to the thing that Q&A Sillvva quoted from so I could read the rest of the questions and answers.
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The OPs question has been answered and things have begun to deviate, so this thread will now be locked
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