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Jan 13 • 9 tweets • 6 min read
Interesting news in the #RPG world:

D&D has been under an open license for 20+ years which has allowed content creators to publish #DnD-compatible material free & clear, but the giant corporation which owns the game (Hasbro) tried yanking the rights & the community is revolting:
This is an interesting study in a situation where a game really has become community property (socialized, you might say), and a mega-company tries to step in & pocket all of the third-party content -- not just "fan art" but a huge cottage industry of writers, designers, etc #dnd
The D&D third-party content producers range from people making $1/year off of some monster stats to people raising $100K off of a Kickstarter for a major project employing dozens of writers, artists, etc. The license change would've destroyed that overnight -- currently on pause.
D&D is an inherently creative, imaginative, & *social* game, & many players are *very* dedicated, having invested a lot in it. Those who actually run/DM a game also have to do hours of prep work, elaboration, map-making etc

Pissing off a community like that, LOL, LMAO
#dnd #wotc
What the #DnD community is calling for now includes things like:

1) Canceling subs to the @DnDBeyond service to hit Habsro financially #DnDBegone;
2) Supporting open game licenses like Paizo's proposed new #ORCLicense;
3) Signing petitions like this one: change.org/p/wizards-hasb…
The revoking of the previously existing Open Game License 1.0a (#OGL) was first announced a few weeks ago. When the new OGL 1.1 was leaked, it caused an uproar which Hasbro/#WotC has barely addressed.

They're finding out that it's the creators that make "their" game what it is.
Getting ratio'd & dragged through every outlet of gaming media there is because you tried to destroy a beloved, intergenerational, community-unifying piece of mass culture?

Nah, it's just "an incredible outpour of passion and dedication"! #capitalism

Good reminder that the #OGL stuff was a corporate exec decision at Hasbro/#WotC, not a random game artist/writer decision 🎯:
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