D&D responds to neighborhood backlash with new licensing phrases

AdminJanuary 20, 2023

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Official art from the Dungeons & Dragons tabletop roleplaying game depicting a party of adventurers fighting a large red dragon in a dungeon. — *The brand new OGL 1.2 is topic to neighborhood suggestions referred to as playtesting, which might be addressed on or earlier than February seventeenth.* | Picture: Wizards of the Coast

In an announcement on the DnD Past web site, Kyle Brink, govt producer of D&D, has launched OGL 1.2, the most recent model of the Dungeons and Dragons Open Gaming License. Brink highlighted that this model of the license doesn’t comprise any of the possession, royalties, and income reporting necessities discovered within the extra restrictive OGL 1.1 that leaked final week.

Wizards of the Coast (WOTC) — the Hasbro-owned writer of Dungeons & Dragons — launched the brand new draft forward of its self-imposed deadline of Friday, January twentieth. Not like the beforehand leaked draft, OGL 1.2 might be topic to neighborhood suggestions referred to as “playtesting” within the tabletop gaming neighborhood.