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DND hates it that people aren't buying their woke crap so they are banned everything else. At this point people should just make their own system detached from DND in any way possible.

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Isn't that D20?

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Not really? There's more to table top rpgs than just DND. There's GURPS and heck there's tons of other systems people abandoned over the years. DND is just the more palatable to normies.

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Paizo's lawyers are going to be busy. This sounds like WotC is definitely going after them for a cut of their revenue. Pathfinder is their biggest competitor for a fantasy TTRPG. And even though Pathfinder is very different now from the current D&D system, they did start off under the OGL, and include the OGL in all their books. Someone took a look at that and saw that Paizo makes over $10M each year and said, "Yeah, we want a cut of that."

It's hard to predict how this would play out in court, but Paizo and hundreds of other smaller businesses reference that OGL in their products. If WotC forces them to choose between an expensive legal fight or charging 33% more for their products, a lot of people are going to be super pissed.

Legally, it looks like Hasbro has a lot of leverage. The "best case" scenario for a lot of these companies might be that they only have to pay royalties. The stuff about Hasbro getting unlimited right to the content under the OGL, as well as placing restrictions on artistic content, is going to be a line in the sand for publishers. I don't see anyone agreeing to that.

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They can't retroactively change licensing terms. The license change only effects new products whereby the ogl is no longer available to them.

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That makes sense, but it could cause problems for a lot of folks who now will have to scrub everything they do for IP issues. And VTT sites that have gotten very popular might have to drop DnD altogether.

Although it seems like this'll backfire in the longrun. WotC puts out garbage on their own, it's the third party developers smd creators that have help DnD make a comeback over the past 20 years.