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Gods, that's an awfully written statement. Painful. Notably, the idea that it was just a draft is simply a lie - the OGL 1.1 was sent to content creators to s
by Mindwipe 4y ago
Gods, that's an awfully written statement.
Painful.
Notably, the idea that it was just a draft is simply a lie - the OGL 1.1 was sent to content creators to sign. That's not an internal draft. It just isn't. There is no way to look at that section as anything other than a deliberate falsification on Hasbro's part.
Secondly, the notion that the main driver was to prevent hateful content is also just nonsensical. It's not like you accidentally dropped a typewriter down the stairs and it suddenly required a 30% royalty, and the notion that any business put that in and it wasn't the primary motivation is fanciful, especially when Hasbro's own financial statement explicitly says that they were expecting to drive significant additional monetisation from D&D.
If Hasbro want to start earning trust back here, not including two easily provable lies in the first, massively overdue statement would be a good start.
- y-curious 4y agoI am not much of a DND player- what sort of hateful content are they trying to prevent? Is there a Nazi-flavored campaign they want to curtail?
- plorkyeran 4y agoThere's a handful of explicitly Nazi/White Supremacist TTRPGs out there. AFAIK none of them actually use OGL content, and Hasbro just wants to make sure it remains that way as they really don't want D&D associated with that.
- UncleMeat 4y agoSadly, there actually is some explicitly white supremacist third party rpg content. One of Gygax's kids is involved in this.
- KVFinn 4y ago>I am not much of a DND player- what sort of hateful content are they trying to prevent? Is there a Nazi-flavored campaign they want to curtail? https://www.geekwire.com/2022/wizards-of-the-coast-files-lawsuit-to-stop-publication-of-tabletop-game-alleging-trademark-violation-and-reprehensible-content/ https://www.geekwire.com/2022/wizards-of-the-coast-files-law...
- PaulKeeble 4y agoTypical corporate non apology and partial climb down with a massive fistful of gaslighting.
- kmeisthax 4y agoThis announcement is one step above what James Sterling[0] calls the Solemn JPEG: a single image posted on a branded Twitter account whose contents are just themed[1] text of a half-assed non-apology. How thoughtful /s [0] James Stephanie Sterling, Bastard - https://www.youtube.com/@JimSterling https://www.youtube.com/@JimSterling [1] i.e. brand-specific fonts and colors