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Why Did Wizards of the Coast Try to Cancel the OGL?
1Ben Riggs is a D&D historian and author of the book Slaying the Dragon: A Secret History of Dungeons & Dragons.
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Dungeons & Dragons Scraps Plans To Update Its Open Game License
Wizards of the Coast, publisher of Dungeons & Dragons, announced today that it will no longer be pursuing deauthorization of the Open Gaming License 1.0a, abandoning plans previously stated in the drafted OGL 1.2. This statement comes after relentless fan backlash against the decision to deauthorize that was revealed after io9 reported on a leaked…
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Dungeons & Dragons’ New OGL Will Be An ‘Irrevocable’ Creative Commons Licence
Dungeons & Dragons released a statement today saying that the future of its open gaming licence will be under the purview of the Creative Commons. The Creative Commons is “a nonprofit dedicated to sharing knowledge, and it developed a set of licenses to let creators do that,” says the newest update from Kyle Brink, the…
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Cancelled D&D Beyond Subscriptions Forced Hasbro’s Hand
Dungeons & Dragons publisher Wizards of the Coast finally broke its silence regarding the game’s Open Game Licence on Friday, attempting to calm tensions in the D&D community and answer questions that were raised after Gizmodo broke the news about the contents of a draft of the document last week.