Moving the OSR Forward into the post-OGL Era 8PM tonight EST. Worth a watch!

[Morose]

Moving the OSR Forward into the post-OGL Era Live Stream Wed 1/11/2023 at 8PM about Swords & Wizardry and their response to the OGL 1.1 thing.

A live stream to discuss the OGL, Mythmere Games' specific response to the situation, and what we think is an avenue to a general solution for the OSR.

[Morose]

Two relevant comments found here.

waysoftheearth said:

But what about publisher whose products are derivatives of a D&D SRD (e.g., the "close" retro-clones) that will become "unauthorised" (whatever that may mean) post OGL 1.1? Surely these publishers can't simply switch to CC... can they?

robertsconley said:
They, including myself, will have to put some work in to make sure their systems are free of SRD content. For example, changing Hit Points to Hit-to-kill or combat endurance.

Matt Finch is having a live stream on Swords & Wizardry tonight. Which may or may not have an impact on my Majestic Fantasy RPG.


As for myself, I ran the Majestic Fantasy RPG through a text similarity tool (used to detect plagiarism) and found that I have a very low overlap with the d20 SRD or Matt Finch's Swords & Wizardry, Core 2nd Printing. All this means that except for a few section, I wrote everything in my own words. Doesn't mean I am in the clear.

So far I think I am pretty good on the lore (the descriptive text accompanying the mechanics) I tweaked things to how I view running a medieval fantasy campaign.

Next I will have to look at my various lists (spells, monsters, magic items, etc) and see what has to be altered or tweaked. While I use a lot of D&Dish stuff, in general in my campaigns I like to work with a pretty bland generic list of stuff. The variation comes from fleshing out the individuals avoiding what I call all Klingon are honorable warrior syndrome. It is fortunate that I went this route when this situation arose.

Hope that makes sense.

[Morose]

Doesn't mean I am in the clear.

If you are an author of a game, you might want to get legal advice and there are going to be games with SRD content removed that you can look to for examples, of course you can't, in most cases, copy them either.

[Morose]

Beware the Gifts of Dragons: How D&D’s Open Gaming License May Have Become a Trap for Creators

A very good article IMO.

[The Perilous Dreamer]

Good stuff there, very informative. Just trying to stay in the loop.