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Yeah, RPG.NET is also running interference for them. People who complain too much in the forums are getting banhammered and they locked the thread discussing the OGL because "Conversation seems to be slow."

I'm pretty sure hurting the little guy is the point of the exercise. WOTC managed to accidentally create Paizo, their greatest rival now, by futzing with the OGL last time but they still don't seem to be able to resist trying to kill the goose that laid the golden egg. A company on the rise...

Yeah, this has blown up to an absurd degree. EN world has a thread going on where a Lawyer came out in defense of the OGL and four other lawyers have piled on telling him no, it doesn't work the way he's claiming. Though to be fair, all of them have noted that there's no such thing as...

Gizmodo's done some digging and has an article up. Apparently, WotC has actually had enough cancellations over this it's legit hit their bottom line. https://gizmodo.com/dungeons-dragons-ogl-announcement-wizards-of-the-coast-1849981365

The funny thing here is that Paizo basically exists because of WotC's last round of futzing with the OGL when they tried it with 4th edition.

I've put a bit of time into researching this in more detail. The exact documents haven't been fully released yet, though Kickstarter has confirmed parts of it and it hardly seems likely that it's hogwash, else WotC would have flat-out said so days ago. Several big names in the gaming industry...