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EMERGENCY OGL UPLOAD ALERT (Patreon)

Published:
2023-01-12 12:41:58
Imported:
2026-06

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Hello all. I will release a new video on How Tracy Hickman handles damage with a d20 tomorrow. But I will release ANOTHER video on Sunday night or Monday on the OGL to air on Tuesday on YouTube. 

I'm actually meeting with my IP attorney tonight to make sure I understand the document correctly. Lots of great video content out there eon this subject. I will approach it from a new direction. Of course, at any time WOTC could release a statement and change what I will say. So the situation is very fluid. 

Also running actual games today, Friday, and Saturday. 

Thank you, Red Bull!

--PDM 


Comments

Bryan Stephens

Just when you think you are out, they pull you back in! Sorry you are having to meet with an IP lawyer over this.

James Archer

Going to an attorney is a good idea. Its my understanding that they can't stop you from using the mechanics of the game. Roll d20 to hit, stuff like that. They can only stop you from using things that are on the SRD list.

David Lake

Glad to hear you are proactively seeking professional counsel on this. I hope the OSR community will be able to pivot and keep on moving forward, with or without WOTC.

Travis Sperry

Enjoy your gaming time! At least they can't come into your house and dictate that...

jnlsn family

Yeah, careful, Red Bull is trash. Stick to black coffee. If you die just as your channel returns to it's former glory I will be sad.

Mr.Suulix

Tribute to the mighty Toro Rojo!! 😆

7DSystem

Don't you have to give WoTC a few dollars to play the game now? ;)

Clint Sharp

Thanks for the hard work, Professor.

Marc Acosta

Pretty stoked for these new vids. NGL. Also really looking forward to seeing anything with Tracy Hickman. He's been one of my favorite authors for going on 30 years. Also if anyone hasnt read Dragons of Deceit by him and his writing companion Margaret Weis its really freaking good.

baldrage

I have been following all the OGL commentary obsessively, but very interested to hear your take on it and how you foresee the fallout affecting the TTRPG industry.

baldrage
>>99501669

At the beginning of the week, I was extremely concerned about WOTC essentially destroying the fantasy TTRPG hobby. Today, I am thinking more about what a post-WOTC gaming world looks like and whether Hasbro will survive this monumental mistake. Fascinating to watch a Fortune 500 company destroy a billion dollar IP in the space of a few days. There will be business school case studies written about this.

Jay

The way I see it. Stay tuned and remain flexible. Things are gonna get real interesting. May as well kick back and watch it all go up in smoke with a bucket of popcorn. Not much else we can do at the moment. Where this goes is anyone's guess. One things for sure. You can always count on corporate greed to mess stuff up.

knghtbrd

Wondering how Paizo's announcement may affect what the professor's working on? ORC License? Looks like *real* Open Gaming License is back on the menu, boys! FWIW I concur with Paizo's attorney about the 1.0a not being revocable. Granted they've got the JD and I don't, but I've spent enough time with Copyright licenses and contract laws that the intentional FUD in the 1.1 draft does not scare me. Anybody can sue over anything and lawsuits can get expensive, sure. But the fact is that not only do the people who wrote the thing say it was intended to never be revocable, but Hasbro's own WotC webpage said as much. Right until they rolled a natural 1 on their stealth check when deleting it. Seems they forgot that the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine exists. If *Hasbro* said it can't be revoked, how can they possibly argue later on that it can be and expect the judge not to laugh them out the door?

David Nelson

PDM, you may as well wait.... things are changing at such a pace that by the time you make a video Thursday's news will be ancient history on Monday. Would you be open to a live stream at some point? Something interactive so we can have discourse on the game? Or has this happened already and I missed the memo? I played DB with my group last night. It was cathartic and helped me to realize the situation is going to be alright. I was asking for feedback on what they liked and disliked. First thing they said was "We're having fun, this moves much quicker without having to reference a stack of books." They did indicate they would appreciate an index. I imagine that would be a pita while you're still working on the game. They had a couple of minor quibles and they have had some difficulty moving away from doing things "by the book" and being creative. It was our 3rd session (about 12 hours in) so they may come around. I'll keep sending feedback as we deepen our experience. If it's helpful.

Luke Griggs

Super excited for the d20 damage video! 5e is not fun to DM past tier 2, and with the recent actions of wizards, I'm ready to go full bore in more strip down, OSR type games/hacks. These types of videos are my favorite that you do! Lots of smaller creators I would have never come across otherwise, including your own games.

MrGunn
>>99529549

Agreed, OGL 2.0 is in the works and Hasbroceana's senior leadership is scrambling like eggs at a popular brunch spot on Sunday.

MrGunn
>>99522264

Totally agree! As the old Chinese proverb goes, if you calmly wait at the bank of the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will go floating by.

MrGunn
>>99524520

Yeah ORC is a very interesting development. Paizo should release their own RPG sans D&D and see how that fares.

MrGunn
>>99479856

The Professor is a Coke Zero man, I like you prefer coffee though with cream. Either way, Red Bull tastes terrible, akin to Mt Dew without the benefit of carbonation.

MrGunn
>>99501669

Yes, there is great fun in watching Rome burn, Crassus where are your fire brigades now...

James Archer

Death bringer and Shadow of the Demon Lord for me.

William Watkins

Hopefully the reversal of WOTC and the OGL will calm things down and we can get back to business! The business, of danger and death!

MrGunn
>>99568193

I dunno, Hasbroceana broke the community’s trust, I think the reverberations from ringing the OGL bell 🔔 are going to resonate for a very long time.

William Watkins
>>99568193

Just as fast as the cancel culture rears up its head, it goes back down with almost the same rapidity.

baldrage
>>99568193

Don't kid yourself, they haven't reversed anything. WOTC's announcement today is just stalling for time until the outrage dies down.