So in about a week Wizards of the Coast shattered the trust of the entire RPG community. I won't link stuff, but As always ENWorld has a great article, and so far I have heard that.....
Kobold Press is going to make its own open source game engine under Project Black Flag (I have high hopes here);
EN World is getting some more projects out fast, but maybe they can retool their Advanced 5E series to be non-OGL (I hope for this; just discovered A5E and really like it);
Rumor is Troll Lord Games wants to do their own open source license for people to use and to get their games under the one flag.
Youtube Vlogs suggest that Critical Roll will jump ship with D&D;
And Humble Bundle is capitalizing on this with a "Non OGL Games" bundle.
Yeah, this was the Pandora's Box for WotC, and I can't help but suspect that they don't really care what it does to the community....their goal is to extract D&D from the detritus of the hobbyists who made it popular and kept it going all these years.
Just the leak was enough to get all third-party publishers to jump ship. This must have been their objective. WOTC wants to be the only purveyor of D&D products. They want to be Games Workshop. They only want fans who consume all of their products and spend huge amounts of money.
ReplyDeleteThe interesting question will be: how many indignant fans today are still avoiding WotC products this time next year?
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