bonusactionrainbow

Re: The 1.1 Open gaming Licence

Added 2023-01-11 06:44:06 +0000 UTC

Hey folks!

As you can imagine, since the news regarding the upcoming updates to the Open gaming licence that I have used in much of my content, I have been concerned.

What is the problem?

The leaked 1.1 licence (or anything close to it) are unacceptable to me, as they are to many in the community.

As I understand it, the new licence:

Requires me to give wizards a claim to my content going forward.
Could prevent the VTTs I use running the game (killing a lot of my content and all of our ability to play)
Invalidates the old version of the OGL, meaning I could not continue to offer my already published work, and might have to remove my old content.

What does this mean for BonusActionRainbow?

I have to change the way I make content. Unless the OGL1.0a remains as it has been for the last 20 years, I will not be using any new OGL.

Going forward, I ask that you understand the difficulties this presents to a small creator like me, and that you work with me.

This will affect some of my planned content. However, I still intend to produce regular quality content for the TTRPG community.

How can you help?

You can help in one of two ways.

Keep supporting me like you already do. Keep using and enjoying the content I make and sharing it about, telling me how you use it, and being part of the community. Knowing folks care makes all this worth it.
Support the community as a whole by reading up on the situation and being knowledgeable about it. And please, consider signing this: https://www.opendnd.games/
I suggest downloading my work from wherever you have access and making sure you have it.

In light of this, I have put some of my DMsGuild content on sale for the next few days (until the 13th). So feel free to use these special discount links until then.