An nameless reader shares a report from PC Gamer:
In a weblog submit printed Friday, Wizards of the Coast introduced that it’s totally placing the kibosh on the proposed Open Gaming License (OGL) 1.2 that threw the tabletop RPG group into disarray at first of this month.
As an alternative, Wizards will go away the beforehand enshrined OGL 1.0 in place, whereas additionally placing the newest D&D Methods Reference Doc (SRD 5.1) underneath a Inventive Commons License (due to GamesRadar for the spot).
The unique OGL was put in place with the third version of D&D in 2000, and allowed different firms and creators to base their work off D&D and the d20 system with out cost to or oversight from Wizards. A draft of a revised OGL 1.1 leaked early in January, which proposed royalty funds and artistic management by Wizards over spinoff works. This instantly incited a backlash from followers. Wizards backpedaled, introducing a softer OGL 1.2 that might nonetheless exchange the unique, and opened the group survey cited in at present’s announcement.
With 15,000 respondents in, the outcomes of the survey have been fairly damning. 88% did not “need to publish TTRPG content material underneath OGL 1.2,” whereas 89% have been “dissatisfied with deauthorizing OGL 1.0a.” 62% have been completely happy that Wizards would put prior SRD variations underneath Inventive Commons, with many of the dissenters wanting extra Inventive Commons-protected content material.
In response, Wizards of the Coast caved.
“We welcome at present’s information from Wizards of the Coast concerning their intention to not de-authorize OGL 1.0a,” tweeted Pathfinder publisher Paizo, who’d launched an effort to maneuver the business away from WotC’s OGL. However “We nonetheless imagine there’s a highly effective want for an irrevocable, perpetual impartial system-neutral open license that can serve the tabletop group through nonprofit stewardship.
“Work on the ORC license will proceed, with an anticipated first draft to launch for remark to taking part publishers in February.”