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<blockquote data-quote="kenmarable" data-source="post: 9038859" data-attributes="member: 40359"><p>But to know what's open, you also need the OGC declaration:</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>So the entire thing except for the World-Building chapter, and stuff outside statblocks of the Friends & Foes chapter.</p><p></p><p>But it's still evidence to what you said, back in the day, games were (generally) far more open, and it does seem to be a post-5e thing that highly restrictive OGC/PI declarations are becoming the norm. Sure, there were some back in the d20/3.x era, but they were definitely the exception.</p><p></p><p>Now industry leaders like MCDM have declarations like in their Arcadia magazines, or Monte Cook Games with their 5e stuff, that contribute zero OGC whatsoever and close off every thing they create including derived content. 20 years ago, they would have been publicly roasted for declarations like that. Now, I just see resigned grumbling on industry Discords and lamenting that (regardless of everything else MCDM does great because they are a great company) this sort of approach is only helping to accelerate the death of the OGL.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kenmarable, post: 9038859, member: 40359"] But to know what's open, you also need the OGC declaration: So the entire thing except for the World-Building chapter, and stuff outside statblocks of the Friends & Foes chapter. But it's still evidence to what you said, back in the day, games were (generally) far more open, and it does seem to be a post-5e thing that highly restrictive OGC/PI declarations are becoming the norm. Sure, there were some back in the d20/3.x era, but they were definitely the exception. Now industry leaders like MCDM have declarations like in their Arcadia magazines, or Monte Cook Games with their 5e stuff, that contribute zero OGC whatsoever and close off every thing they create including derived content. 20 years ago, they would have been publicly roasted for declarations like that. Now, I just see resigned grumbling on industry Discords and lamenting that (regardless of everything else MCDM does great because they are a great company) this sort of approach is only helping to accelerate the death of the OGL. [/QUOTE]
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