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Comment by abeyer | Hacker News Reader

Weren't WotC blatant cash grabbers well before D&D or draping? Didn't really seem related in their case.

They were, but it's now hip to blame 'wokeness' for the horse bolting out the barndoor, the milk going bad, and other similar calamities, like rains of frogs, poor stock performance relative to the S&P500, and so on, and so forth.

>When we initially conceived of revising the OGL, it was with three major goals in mind. First, we wanted the ability to prevent the use of D&D content from being included in hateful and discriminatory products. Second, we wanted to address those attempting to use D&D in web3, blockchain games, and NFTs by making clear that OGL content is limited to tabletop roleplaying content like campaigns, modules, and supplements. And third, we wanted to ensure that the OGL is for the content creator, the homebrewer, the aspiring designer, our players, and the community—not major corporations to use for their own commercial and promotional purpose.

https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1423-an-update-on-the-open-g...

In their own words.

Wokeness has reached its due by date. The great washed masses need to find something else to colonize and destroy now.

I'm not sure that link says what you think it does.

The very first sentence in the 'what's next' part of that post starts out, "The next OGL will contain the provisions that allow us to protect and cultivate the inclusive environment we are trying to build"

So sounds to me like they're doubling down on the ideology while relaxing (at least some of) the licensing terms.

That's rain_BOWS_ of frogs, thank you very much

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