Sadly, D&D has become the sole, truly corporate entity within a space full of creators...
Edit- should note that Free Leagues RPG's are top shelf. Great games with an intuitive system. And their books are beautiful. This is really good news and another great option for smaller creators.
See, even if they make 1.0a irrevocable this won't stop. No reason not to try.
Other than the immense community goodwill and obvious financial benefits they've enjoyed for two editions - and notably, suffered for an edition where they had the GSL instead.
Its in their financial best interest to go back, in addition to avoiding the potential for litigation if they even want to enforce it.
See, even if they make 1.0a irrevocable this won't stop. No reason not to try.
Other than the immense community goodwill and obvious financial benefits they've enjoyed for two editions - and notably, suffered for an edition where they had the GSL instead.
Its in their financial best interest to go back, in addition to avoiding the potential for litigation if they even want to enforce it.
At this point it's irrelevant, nobody is going to publish under 1.0a much longer. Whatever benefits it conferred (to anyone) are going to go right out the window.
See, even if they make 1.0a irrevocable this won't stop. No reason not to try.
Other than the immense community goodwill and obvious financial benefits they've enjoyed for two editions - and notably, suffered for an edition where they had the GSL instead.
Its in their financial best interest to go back, in addition to avoiding the potential for litigation if they even want to enforce it.
At this point it's irrelevant, nobody is going to publish under 1.0a much longer. Whatever benefits it conferred (to anyone) are going to go right out the window.
The fate of 1.0a will be decided in court. If it holds up, and there's a good chance it will, people will continue to publish 5e compatible content.
WotC is saying that Version 6 (so-called "One D&D") will still be largely 5e compatible.
Third-party producers have already produced lots of 5e-compatible material.
WotC may have decided that it doesn't need any more, at least at this time.
They, by choice, produced a hateful document and the only nat one roled was on their intimidation-driven stealth and in the fact that the work they produced got released.
Now it's just a matter for the community to react.
Non-WotC OGLs may be written but they won't directly affect WotC unless they agree to them.
See, even if they make 1.0a irrevocable this won't stop. No reason not to try.
Other than the immense community goodwill and obvious financial benefits they've enjoyed for two editions - and notably, suffered for an edition where they had the GSL instead.
Its in their financial best interest to go back, in addition to avoiding the potential for litigation if they even want to enforce it.
At this point it's irrelevant, nobody is going to publish under 1.0a much longer. Whatever benefits it conferred (to anyone) are going to go right out the window.
The fate of 1.0a will be decided in court. If it holds up, and there's a good chance it will, people will continue to publish 5e compatible content.
I'm not going to stop playing 5e, are you?
The critical part is that 3PP will use OGL 1.0a to produce 6e compatible content, assuming the 6e system is competitive in the market.
The beauty of engineering 6e to be backwards compatible with the 5.1 SRD.
Is it a problem that Wizards put the SRD 5.1 into the Creative Commons License space? Is there an advantage to OGL 1.0a over Creative Commons?
Right now the only real advantage is that the 3.5 SRD is not in the CC, only OGL, so if you're trying to make 3.5 or PF1 content you'll want to use the OGL still. That will change in the future however.
Isn't Paizo collaborating with Kobold Press and others to make their next generation open licensed under the "O.R.C.", or Project Black Flag or something?
NerdImersion covering it https://youtu.be/Dynr5PLll-E
Announcement Post https://mailchi.mp/frialigan/newsletter-ogl
If I can't say something nice, I try to not say anything at all. So if I suddenly stop participating in a topic that's probably why.
See, even if they make 1.0a irrevocable this won't stop. No reason not to try.
Sadly, D&D has become the sole, truly corporate entity within a space full of creators...
Edit- should note that Free Leagues RPG's are top shelf. Great games with an intuitive system. And their books are beautiful. This is really good news and another great option for smaller creators.
Other than the immense community goodwill and obvious financial benefits they've enjoyed for two editions - and notably, suffered for an edition where they had the GSL instead.
Its in their financial best interest to go back, in addition to avoiding the potential for litigation if they even want to enforce it.
At this point it's irrelevant, nobody is going to publish under 1.0a much longer. Whatever benefits it conferred (to anyone) are going to go right out the window.
The fate of 1.0a will be decided in court. If it holds up, and there's a good chance it will, people will continue to publish 5e compatible content.
I'm not going to stop playing 5e, are you?
I will continue playing 5e (and 1DnD) regardless of whether OGL 1.0a exists or not.
WotC is saying that Version 6 (so-called "One D&D") will still be largely 5e compatible.
Third-party producers have already produced lots of 5e-compatible material.
WotC may have decided that it doesn't need any more, at least at this time.
They, by choice, produced a hateful document and the only nat one roled was on their intimidation-driven stealth and in the fact that the work they produced got released.
Now it's just a matter for the community to react.
Non-WotC OGLs may be written but they won't directly affect WotC unless they agree to them.
The critical part is that 3PP will use OGL 1.0a to produce 6e compatible content, assuming the 6e system is competitive in the market.
The beauty of engineering 6e to be backwards compatible with the 5.1 SRD.
Is it a problem that Wizards put the SRD 5.1 into the Creative Commons License space? Is there an advantage to OGL 1.0a over Creative Commons?
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Right now the only real advantage is that the 3.5 SRD is not in the CC, only OGL, so if you're trying to make 3.5 or PF1 content you'll want to use the OGL still. That will change in the future however.
Isn't Paizo collaborating with Kobold Press and others to make their next generation open licensed under the "O.R.C.", or Project Black Flag or something?
FOR SERF AND SOVEREIGN!
@Serf2Sove #5eOGL
VIEW HERE AND FOLLOW FOR FREE, UNIQUE CONTENT
https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/serf2sove-5eogl.851074/