Dungeons Dragons Community Holds Breath As Wizards Of The Coast Prepares New Ogl

A leaked copy of a new and more restrictive Open Gaming License has put a large portion of the thriving ecosystem surrounding Dungeons & Dragons into a nervous standstill. Yesterday, io9 published excerpts from a reported draft version of the OGL 1.1, a public copyright license that can be used by developers to make third-party material for Dungeons & Dragons. The reported new version claims to “deauthorize” previous versions of the OGL, which would require publishers to opt-in to a more restrictive license in which publishers and creators have to report their OGL work, pay royalties on revenue over $750,000 (regardless as to a project’s profitability), and grants Wizards of the Coast a “nonexclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, sub-licensable, royalty-free license” to use content created under the OGL for any purpose. 

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