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Paizo’s Open RPG Alliance Grows Stronger Every Day
Amid the deafening silence from Wizards of the Coast after io9 reported on a leaked draft of their new Open Gaming Licence, Paizo, one of their competitors, launched a bold new initiative. Alongside a few key partners, which include popular third-party publishers like Kobold Press, Chaosium, and Green Ronin, the Pathfinder publisher announced that they…
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Dungeons & Dragons Owners ‘Sorry’ After Week Of Very Bad Press
2Wizards of the Coast, the company responsible for Dungeons & Dragons, have not had a great week. As io9 reported, plans for a revision to D&D’s Open Gaming Licence — through which other games from other people can borrow some of D&D’s systems — went down terribly, facing opposition from both fans and other tabletop…
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Paizo President Jim Butler Reveals Plans For A Universal RPG Licence
While Wizards of the Coast was still assembling its party, other leaders in the tabletop roleplaying games industry were studying the blade. As fans waited for the Hasbro-owned company to respond to the ongoing controversy over the Dungeons & Dragons Open Game Licence, Paizo announced it would be financially supporting an initiative to establish a…
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Wizards Of The Coast Cancels OGL Announcement After Online Ire
Dungeons & Dragons publisher Wizards of the Coast has apparently cancelled an announcement about their updated Open Gaming Licence for a second time this week. Inside sources at Wizards of the Coast tell Gizmodo that the company is scrambling to formulate a response to backlash against the new OGL that has occurred over the past…