They're trying to kill Paizo for being too based. Allowing the first unions in our TTRPG market? No fucking way! Don't buy from Wizards ever again you hogs
They're trying to kill Paizo for being too based. Allowing the first unions in our TTRPG market? No fucking way! Don't buy from Wizards ever again you hogs
This is some real bad shit but WOC is really miss representing what this all means. The original license will still be in effect, we'll have to see the full text of the new license but there is no way for them to unilaterally invalidate stuff already published under the old one, however they likely have a clause in the new one that makes accepting it to publish new content invalidate all your content published under the old one.
I know our legal system sucks, but that seems like it wouldn't hold in court. I kinda wonder if they made this license so the backlash will make people accept another license?
We'll have to see what all 9,000 words of the new license says but they're not just dealing with small homebrew creators this time, there are real companies with real money and lawyers able to fight them on this. Real info should be coming out in the next couple days.
Paizo has made no comment so I think they are on it. The others I can think of are Kobold Press which I'm not sure how powerful they are, and Critical Role which I'm not sure about because on one hand they have been distancing themselves from established DnD lore and established their own publishing company, but they also have a good working relationship with WotC. Any other companies you can think of?
Pretty much any TTRPG that came out after 2000 based on d20 system is built under the OGL 1, so that's a lot of companies although you did list heavy hitters I can think of. However I know a bunch of video games are also based off the d20 system under the OGL, I haven't looked into it but if I remember right KOTOR was, which means even bio-ware could come out dick swinging.
KOTOR was. However, they based it off of a WotC published Star Wars d20 game.
Guess they probably didn't just use the OGL then, still a fair number of other games have. This is gonna be interesting shit show. You may be right that this a back handed tactic to push a slightly less terrible license but no matter what it's going to shake up the rpg community in a big way.