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3 years ago
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Okay, some good news for this year. Paizo is going to create an Open RPG Creative License, or ORC License, to open source rulesets. I'm really pleased to see Chaosium involved, as Runequest and Call of Cthulhu are two of my favourite games. Also, Kobold Press is a part of it. Which is awesome, because Kobolds!
Send more Kobolds!
Seriously I'm not having a great time and don't want to talk about why.
Send more Kobolds!
Seriously I'm not having a great time and don't want to talk about why.
The new version of the "Open" Game License that was going to come with OneD&D (6e) was going to "un-authorize" the existing OGL which the creators of that have stated wasn't designed to be revocable. But, y'know since it didn't include fifteen different versions of "forever" and "perpetual" (ie: it lacked irrevocable') Hasbro stated they could just do that.
Paizo said "Go ahead and try, we'll see you in court, in the meantime we are making an even more bullet-proof version of OGL 1.0a, and are uniting your competitors while we do it."
So people are encouraged to unsubscribe from D&DBeyond, as that is apparently the only financial, real-time metric Hasbro cares about and is watching. Paizo is also offering 25% off certain core rulebooks if you use 'OpenLicense' as a checkout code.
It's not too hard to find both Paizo's and WotC's recent press releases, and WotC's is full of a lot of obfuscation and weaseling, so it's pretty easy to tell who is lying. They're going with a 'just trust us' line, and a 'wait and see' in the hopes that gamer nerds will forget about it, or infight or something.
I heard about what they try to pull with OneD&D, the pay to play thing. it might work with computer game nerds, but only if it works like a computer game... which it wouldn't.
and the traditional gamers will not touch it with a ten foot pole, methinks. because we don't need all that. especially since it seems to be nothing but sandboxes nowadays, if you have to work out everything and come up with details anyway, why buy an overpriced book?
the new rules also seem to include that you are forbidden to stream D&D6 content, which excludes all the YT stars who made advertising for hasbro until now... for free.
personally I gave up on D&D after 3.5, and am not too interested in pathfinder2. don't need no THAC0, I still play AD&D2nd here and there. :P
at my weekly round we usually play somethign homemade, very simplified, using some ideas from L5R. I recently realized we've been using it for like, 20 years now? and we use it for *everything*, too. I don't need OneD&D. especially not if you have to pay for every snippet of an extra.