An exclusive look at Wizards of the Coast's new open gaming license shows efforts to curtail competitors and and tighten control on creators of all sizes.

They're trying to kill Paizo for being too based. Allowing the first unions in our TTRPG market? No fucking way! Don't buy from Wizards ever again you hogs

  • Utter_Karate [he/him, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    I already do not buy from Wizards (or Paizo for the most part) because they already lost the fight for intellectual property when it comes to rules to third party free online databases that just republishes all their text word for word. The first publisher to take down the ability for players to easily look up any rule on their phone without paying or signing up for anything will immediately show the rest of the publishers why you cannot do that and they all know it. The rules themselves are in effect public domain.

    • lurkerlady [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      Luckily Paizo hasnt done anything like that, though they do take down anyone that posts the full text of the stories in their PDFs. But that isn't mechanical.

    • redladadriver [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      Just play Basic Fantasy and stop supporting WOTC Hacks... The rules PDFs are free and the print copy is like $5..

      Don't let Capitalists hijack your imagination. You don't need a $50 expansion module to learn how to modify the 45 pages of rules to play a wizard subset, just role play that bitch yourself, Comrade! :fidel-balling: