Which RPG games depend on the OGL 1.0a?

[Micah Sweet]

Honestly I don't think Hasbro's first priority is to go after existing content. Their goal is to stop future content. So I would guess EN Publishing might get away with selling off their remaining stock of physical media.

You realize that would still kill the game right? Not being able to produce new product is kinda a big deal.

 

[Umbran]

The real kicker here is that OGC is not legally defined anywhere to the best of my knowledge so I expect WOTC to claim its anything in any of the SRDs.

The best of your knowledge... could use a bit of buffing up.

OGLv1.0a
"1.(d)"Open Game Content" means the game mechanic and includes the methods, procedures, processes and routines to the extent such content does not embody the Product Identity and is an enhancement over the prior art and any additional content clearly identified as Open Game Content by the Contributor, and means any work covered by this License, including translations and derivative works under copyright law, but specifically excludes Product Identity."

"8. Identification: If you distribute Open Game Content You must clearly indicate which portions of the work that you are distributing are Open Game Content."

So, in every document that is published under the SRD, what counts as OGC is supposed to be clearly indicated.

For example, the 5e srd says:

"The following items are designated Product Identity, as defined in Section 1(e) of the Open Game License Version 1.0a, and are subject to the conditions set forth in Section 7 of the OGL, and are not Open Content: "

Spoiler: long list of PI terms

Dungeons & Dragons, D&D, Player’s Handbook, Dungeon Master, Monster Manual, d20 System, Wizards of the Coast, d20 (when used as a trademark), Forgotten Realms, Faerûn, proper names (including those used in the names of spells or items), places, Underdark, Red Wizard of Thay, the City of Union, Heroic Domains of Ysgard, EverChanging Chaos of Limbo, Windswept Depths of Pandemonium, Infinite Layers of the Abyss, Tarterian Depths of Carceri, Gray Waste of Hades, Bleak Eternity of Gehenna, Nine Hells of Baator, Infernal Battlefield of Acheron, Clockwork Nirvana of Mechanus, Peaceable Kingdoms of Arcadia, Seven Mounting Heavens of Celestia, Twin Paradises of Bytopia, Blessed Fields of Elysium, Wilderness of the Beastlands, Olympian Glades of Arborea, Concordant Domain of the Outlands, Sigil, Lady of Pain, Book of Exalted Deeds, Book of Vile Darkness, beholder, gauth, carrion crawler, tanar’ri, baatezu, displacer beast, githyanki, githzerai, mind flayer, illithid, umber hulk, yuan-ti.

"All of the rest of the SRD5 is Open Game Content as described in Section 1(d) of the License."

So, what is, and isn't, OGC is quite clearly defined. In the 5e SRD, if it isn't one of the protected terms it is OGC.

 

[CapnZapp]

You realize that would still kill the game right? Not being able to produce new product is kinda a big deal.

Absolutely. But "killing the game" is not "killing the company".

Sitting on surplus stock you can't or daren't move is a company killer. Having to shut down a game line can kill companies too, sure, but isn't nearly as likely to do so.