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As a D&D lover and as a game developer, Wizards is customer hostile. They employ litigation and control lawyers to protect their own commercial interests instea
by gabereiser 4y ago
As a D&D lover and as a game developer, Wizards is customer hostile. They employ litigation and control lawyers to protect their own commercial interests instead of letting a community of fans expand upon their works with their own creativity. TSR and crew would be ashamed. It's always been about imagination and creativity within a ruleset. The ruleset books and core are Wizards IP. OGL was to take the "math and systems of rules" that made that possible and enable others to create works of their own. I used OGL extensively when building text-based adventures and muds as well as the foundation for mmorpg's.
Restricting it in legalese to "Table Top Only" is grounds for all sorts of law suits against Roll20 and the likes that employ the OGL rulesets for non-Wizards-like games. Fuck, this is why Pathfinder forked 3.5 rules. Wizards only cares about milking their already aging customer base. They had a really good effort on 4th ed. on bringing new folks in but then they showed how shallow the walled garden is and people left. Shame on you Wizards, shame. OGL should be open. Open Source, Open Ideation, Open Arms, Open Hearts. Wizards should do this, or give up the IP and stick to Magic The Gathering where they have a huge install base with Magic Online.