The outflux from DnD is pretty funny. I play Pathfinder with someone who mods the Plebbit subreddit and they said that they had 100+ people join their Discord today alone after Paizo announced their own OGL. Paizo decided to hire Azora Law which was co-founded by Brian Lewis who helped create the original DnD OGL to help make it "open, perpetual, and irrevocable". Glad to see them taking advantage of WotC's misstep once again.
it's even worse than that, people who never knew what paizo even is are suddenly looking into it.
just consider for a moment that a lot of 5e normies live in an ignorant "dnd=rpg" bubble, the second they become aware there's a whole world of other systems and companies outside it's impossible to put that genie back in the box - words travel fast, especially in nerd spaces, however normie they are. it's hilarious to watch them go "what do you mean the rules are free?!? why?" and other fun facts that simply don't exist or work differently under wotc. suddenly the people too lazy and uninformed to play anything else than dnd actually want to.
the other aspects is that the whole 1.1 kerfuffle also pissed off the DMs, which are usually lot more versed than the average player, and if they jump ship there's a good chance they take their players with them (since it's much more difficult to replace a DM just to keep running 5e). they're also usually the ones buying all books to run their games. so in one fell swoop wotc's little stunt cost them their existing paypiggies
and the ones ones they were planning to milk.
gonna have to wait and see if it will stick, but now that everyone involved has an incentive to piss on wotc it's gonna be interesting what the longerm effects will be.
It looks like they're trying to have the license be untethered to any one controlling agency, so I don't see a way for anyone to try to enforce such a clause. I'm sure if it was technically feasible they would absolutely add such language, though. We can't have people on the wrong side of history making games, after all.
one argument I've read that the law firm in charge will probably try to avoid stuff like that to not constantly have to litigate for that shit.
terms like that are also usually tied to the brand with the excuse "we can fuck your for everything if we think would damage the brand", a general license divorced from any specific brand doesn't really have a use for that.
Margins might be high, but the raw income isn't super high IIRC.
here's one of the creators of the OGL going into it (towards the end):
I also like how a 50% royalty is "rape" when WotC does it, but "standard" when Paizo does it because they put all their monsters and class options in their SRD, not just the core ones.
nigga, the fuck you're even talking about? you look more retarded than the average drone right now, which is just pathetic since I know you're smarter than that going by your other posts.
all I got from your little hissy fit is that you never had to run avernus and the mess it is, so no need read your clueless hot takes.
