The D&D community holds its breath as seismic changes to third-party content are considered:
A leaked copy of a new and more restrictive Open Gaming License has put a large portion of the thriving ecosystem surrounding Dungeons & Dragons into a nervous standstill. Yesterday, io9 published excerpts from a reported draft version of the OGL 1.1, a public copyright license that can be used by developers to make third-party material for Dungeons & Dragons.
Rumors surrounding the OGL have swirled for weeks, putting many creators on edge. And while Wizards of the Coast previously sought to reassure creators who use the OGL to publish their own D&D material for profit that changes to the OGL would be minimal and would only impact a handful of creators, the new leak has caused many publishers to pause their upcoming projects as they wait to read the new OGL and make a final determination about whether to support Dungeons & Dragons. ComicBook.
Other creators stated that they didn't see many other options but to use the new OGL, even if it came with more unfavorable terms. Alastor Guzman, who wrote an adventure for the Wizards of the Coast book Journeys Through the Radiant Citadel, stated that their publisher Axo Stories' next D&D project was put on hold after the OGL leak, although Guzman said that they will probably opt into the new OGL as they have a project that raised over $45,000 that is deep in the editing phase.
Other publishers have stated they were moving away from 5E in favor of creating their own system. Houndsong Games stated on Twitter that they were moving away from 5E in favor of a new self-created system called Relict, although founder C.D. Corrigan said to ComicBook.com that there would be sunk costs because of the move."We're pivoting over to our own system and trying to salvage as much as possible," Corrigan said. — Houndsong Games | RelictRPG.
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