#Youd think its obvious that theyre horrible and greedy and capitalism bad

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Linking Legal Eagle’s video on the OGL to hopefully spread it around tumblr amidst the fear-mongering.

The tldr is that theres legal precedent in the united states to say that rules/methodology cant be copyrighted. So as long as an individual doesnt use any of the copywrightable material created by wotc (names, characters, artwork, adventure modules, ect), but are just using the rules and systems of dnd, they would be legally fine. So things like CR and D20 are fine cause theyre basically all homebrew. Now this doesnt mean that moneybags wotc wouldnt have tried to fight them in court anyway, but the legal precedent is there, and even under the 1.1 draft they likely would have been fine. Basically, wotc are massive losers and the money grab is horrifically obvious, but their attempts at grabbing said money would have likely fallen flat in most cases.

Honest to god the biggest change for CR may be that they dont all shout “WE PLAY DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS” at the top of every stream anymore