The OGL 1.2 is out with a statement of deauthorization for the OGL 1.0a that has little to do with how the original contract was written. This seems to be part of a pattern of WotC rather emphatically and purposefully ignoring the spirit of their contracts in recent years. [1/8] The saga really started in 2020 with Hickman and Weis and their new Dragonlance book. Wizards seemed to be withholding good-faith approval of their manuscript. They allegedly told the authors to stop sending it for approval! [2/8] dragonlancenexus.com/weis-hickman-f…

@GWierzowiecki @Falkvinge If you're a community manager, you need to ban the bad seeds, when it's obvious that they're acting to the deficit of the community. Part of this requires a rule like RPGnet's rule zero: "Keep the forums friendly and welcoming to as wide a range of gamers as possible." @GWierzowiecki @Falkvinge If someone is being virulently argumentative, particularly if they're constantly arguing in bad faith. If they're constantly putting other people down and deriding their thoughts. If it's obvious that they're making the forums about them, not the community. Then they need to go.