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Prior events: 1a: Dungeons and Dragons’ new license tightens its grip on competition: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34264777 https://news.ycombinator.co

by Macha 4y ago

Prior events: 1a: Dungeons and Dragons’ new license tightens its grip on competition: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34264777 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34264777 - Jan 2023 (203 comments) 1b: Wizards of the Coast Trying to Retroactively Cancel OGL 1.0a: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34271687 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34271687 - Jan 2023 (233 comments) 2: An Open Letter on the Open Gaming License, to Wizards of the Coast: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34314448 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34314448 - Jan 2023 (356 comments) 3: Paizo announces system neutral OpenRPG license: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34363991 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34363991 - Jan 2023 (58 comments)

nickthegreek 4y ago
io9's take on this response from wotc - https://gizmodo.com/dungeons-dragons-ogl-license-wizards-of-the-coast-wotc-1849985196 https://gizmodo.com/dungeons-dragons-ogl-license-wizards-of-...
- Y_Y 4y ago
  This should be the link
havblue 4y ago
Here's one of my favorite (old) articles on their transition from being gaming nerds to becoming a large corporation: Death to the Minotaur: How Wizards of the Coast sacrificed its geeky, Gothic, sex-for-all idealism for Pok March 23, 2001 https://www.salon.com/2001/03/23/wizards/ https://www.salon.com/2001/03/23/wizards/
- markus_zhang 4y ago
  On the geeky side I really really like the slightly more complicated Adnd 2e as well as the Planescape/Spelljammer settings.
- morelisp 4y ago
  There's been 2x as much time between today and that article, as between that article and WotC's founding. It's not relevant to the issues today, and the author paints an extremely rose-tinted picture of the period. The people he accuses of ruining the company's vision were also early employees (and although the author couldn't know it, would go on to found Paizo and today be the heir apparent to his presentation of WotC's vision).

by Macha 4y ago

nickthegreek 4y ago

io9's take on this response from wotc - https://gizmodo.com/dungeons-dragons-ogl-license-wizards-of-the-coast-wotc-1849985196 https://gizmodo.com/dungeons-dragons-ogl-license-wizards-of-...

Y_Y 4y ago
This should be the link

havblue 4y ago

Here's one of my favorite (old) articles on their transition from being gaming nerds to becoming a large corporation: Death to the Minotaur: How Wizards of the Coast sacrificed its geeky, Gothic, sex-for-all idealism for Pok March 23, 2001 https://www.salon.com/2001/03/23/wizards/ https://www.salon.com/2001/03/23/wizards/

markus_zhang 4y ago
On the geeky side I really really like the slightly more complicated Adnd 2e as well as the Planescape/Spelljammer settings.
morelisp 4y ago
There's been 2x as much time between today and that article, as between that article and WotC's founding. It's not relevant to the issues today, and the author paints an extremely rose-tinted picture of the period. The people he accuses of ruining the company's vision were also early employees (and although the author couldn't know it, would go on to found Paizo and today be the heir apparent to his presentation of WotC's vision).