He makes a great point. The 3rd party stuff is better, comes out more often, and is cheaper than the official stuff WOTC puts out. So WOTC wants a piece of it.
I wonder if there is data on official product sales vs. 3rd party stuff.
he's also missing the point that lot of 3rd party stuff is using dmsguild, which already has it's own rules outside the OGL:
which doesn't sound too bad, but then there's this:
Once you activate your Dungeon Masters Guild title for public sale, your account will begin to accrue a 50% royalty every time your title sells.
which means for all the stuff on dmsguild, which a lot of them is fixing/extending official wotc stuff, they already get
half of it. now you know why wotc stuff is so shit - it doesn't have to be good, "the community" will fix it, and wotc will still get paid. you can pretty much expect a lot of them will keep using it, even if they gonna get raped harder by the new OGL. what else they gonna do, publish for paizo?
this also reminds me that a while back there was some DTRPG kerfuffle where they basically could blacklist you via "if we deem your content inappropriate we'll remove it, not gonna tell you why, and if you complain publicly we'll remove everything without warning". dunno what came of it tho.
another thing that never came up in all the discussions so far: while DTRPG is pozzed and would probably suck WOTC off no questions asked, look up who they merged with last year: roll20. then remember what WOTC's goal is and they're gonna directly compete with roll20 so everyone has to go to them for their full package. which means inevitably roll20/onebookshelf will loose it's biggest cashcow. I'm curious if they're aware of that, don't care or simply want to get bought out.
The only thing that will kill these companies or get them to change isn't boycotts or creating a "Fandom Menace" but apathy and indifference. It is only by no longer caring about a property anymore that these companies will lose money and be force to do a course correction. We will never see that though because a majority of humans are retarded nigger cattle whose only purposes in life is to consume and to coom. Case in point (and feel free to give me a negative rating) James Cameron's Avatar series is one of the most generic, pretentious, anti-humanist goyslop I have ever seen in my life yet it has made billions and is beloved by retards, especially by those living in developing nations and bugmen. Even self-professed conservatives who are anti-Green agenda and talk about what a dipshit Greta Thunberg is or how evil Bill Gates is go and see this movie multiple times and take their kids to see it. Which goes to show that there is no wining against these corporations or Hollywood. There are way too many docile nigger cattle who just live to consume and to coom and are perfectly happy eating whatever goyslop companies put in the trough.
yes and no. the problem with consoomer sheep is that like a herd of real sheep they're easy point in one direction, but once startled shit gets off the rails fast. they've latched onto dnd for now, but look what happened to star wars and capeshit.
haven't watched avatar (not even the first one, since I never was interested in a blue version of pocahontas), the bigger question is: if you're in the mood for a blockbuster movie, which a lot of people are over the holidays, what else you gonna watch? as shit as it might be, it's probably still the least offensive shit right now, and it has big enough production values to tide you over. so it's only partially about avatar, and more about the rest around it.
and fwiw, apparently it's tracking like rogue one (last I checked, which was a few days ago): so while it made a lot of money initially, it's dropping hard, which means less money than anticipated. which also means the niggercattle isn't as much nigger and cattle as you might think (still a big herd, but it's getting smaller and smaller over time).
Lmao how in the fuck can they even claim Pathfinder even remotely resembles their game anymore; or Starfinder, or anything else by Paizo. I mean I get people who develop supplements and modules and shit for 5E maybe, but I don't see how there's even a legal leg to stand on to warrant this attempt. I could be just retarded but aren't those systems legally distinct enough to not even apply?
What court is gonna hold this shit up?
apparently paizo uses the OGL for ease of use:
www.independent.co.uk
