They’re still going through with it and maintaining that they have the right to change the terms whenever they feel like. As expected they’re rolling back one or two things (which they can undo whenever they want) and acting like people won. Fuck WotC.
oh yeah ill definitely trust a corporation that tried to rent seek an entire industry, sure
pathfinder is an objectively superior system and I made this account to talk about it, actually. otherwise I don’t really post at all. play pathfinder and support their union
Pathfinder relied on OGL, I’m not sure what Paizo is planning in reaction to this.
So apparently all the stuff that the OGL “allows” is actually stuff Hasbro can’t copyright, like the game rules. Paizo already pretty much moved past all that stuff, too. So there isn’t really much if anything that Hasbro owns that they’re actually using.
Apparently the OGL was kind of a scam to trick 3rd party companies to agree to rules that were more restrictive than fair use. Since D&D is built on so many commons things like mythology, religion, or just books that Hasbro doesn’t own, there’s only a limited amount of D&D stuff that Hasbro has any claim too.
So Hasbro’s ability to stop anyone from making D&D supplements is actually really limited. As long as they don’t use any copyrighted language 3rd party companies can make whatever they want.
Honestly kinda funny when you realize the OGL was made to have DnD as the main deliveyr point (since you used their system and core rulebooks) and then could bolt supplements on to it. Another case of capitalists brutally butchering their golden goose and then getting confused when there’s no more golden eggs.
Paizo is writing their own OGL with a bunch of other small publishers, while also saying they’ll take WotC to court if they try to ‘rugpull’ OGL1.0a.
And to be fair, Pathfinder 2e doesn’t use OGL for much, at this point its mostly just a few names and concepts; they’ve said they decided to publish 2e on OGL mostly for convenience’s sake, so they didn’t have to have a lawyer look over everything written to make sure it didn’t ‘steal’ stuff.
Paizo’s Pathfinder card game isn’t OGL, and as a result has stuff like “Arcane Barrage” instead of “Magic Missile”.
Paizo have released the ORC license in response and have made it clear they intend to go to court if the original OGL license is deauthorised.
