So big news coming out about the Open Gaming License that Wizards of the Coast has under its umbrella from 2000.
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Original Story: The tabletop industry looks to be undergoing a seismic shift based on leaked documents showing that Wizards of the Coast intends to implement a more restricted Open Gaming License (OGL) agreement.
According to a recent Gizmodo report, Hasbro subsidiary Wizards of the Coast is poised to revoke its longstanding OGL, which allows for third-party publishers and fans to create D&D content using their game rules. For over 20 years, this license has empowered countless creators to make and distribute their own D&D content using tools like Kickstarter, and has allowed large publishers like Paizo, creators of Pathfinder, to become titans of the tabletop space in their own right.
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https://www.ign.com/articles/wizards...gl-controversy
This is a leak, hasn't been confirmed yet. But the dnd world seems to be on fire. Lots of big content creators stating they will be shifting to their own material now.
What we will most likely see if all of this is true, will be a fractured RPG system now. Not all based off of one system and universal, but more along the lines of FFG's approach to the Star Wars RPG, independent systems/dice systems that aren't transferable. Or easily adapted anyway.
I mean the world wide response is rage, but it's hard to blame a company for getting sick of people making a living off of their license. The crappy part is that when they put this into place in 2001 they answered a FAQ stating that even if they did ever change the OGL, you can just choose to base your content off of any existing OGL. Now this new OGL says, nah scrap that we are altering the deal, pray we don't alter it further.. feels bad moment for sure.