First Draft of the ORC License Ready for Public Comment

[The Perilous Dreamer]

First Draft of the ORC License Ready for Public Comment

In January, Paizo and an alliance of more than 1,500 tabletop RPG publishers announced our intention to support the development of the Open RPG Creative (ORC) license, a system-agnostic, perpetual, irrevocable open gaming license that provides a legal “safe harbor” for sharing rules mechanics and encourages collaboration and innovation in the tabletop gaming space. The ORC is not explicitly a Paizo license, but is intended for the common use of the entire games industry, across a wide variety of games and platforms. Over the last several weeks, we have been working closely with Azora Law, an intellectual property law firm that works with Paizo and several other game publishers, to develop and refine a working draft of the ORC license for public discussion and refinement.

The first public draft of the ORC license is now complete, and we welcome the feedback of individual publishers on the official ORC License Project Discord, found here.

[The Perilous Dreamer]

I still have not been able to find a list of who all of the 1,500 plus tabletop RPG publishers are.

[The Semi-Retired Gamer]

Kudos to Paizo for making it VERY CLEAR that this is a first draft and they want feedback. At least it's a discussion rather than a dictate from on high.