Dungeons & Dragons Rolls a 1 on New License (OGL 1.1) ft. Matt Colville

I'm from the year 2023! The worst part about all of this? This did not kill sales for WOTC. WOTC could be hypothetically funded by Nazi Gold and it still will not make a difference.

Too nerdy for you? oh, I don't buy that 😂

Hows the situation now?

You use the word "drek", Devin. I know you played Shadowrun.

This is a much needed channel. Great upload here.

I never played D&D and I am very confused.

Was really hoping you'd have a commentary on this, but Matt Colville? Naw, hard pass.

When I started playing back in the 90s and I kept on playing I had a certain style of play and it was one copy of a card while all my friends were playing four copies and competing in these goddamn net deck f**** b***** and then they stole my f**** style when I was building a Geo page and had a whole community on it and then within 6 months they opened up Singleton and took a format that I was a Proprietor in f*** wotc you f**** sell out extortionist

Tbh, WotC should have known better than to go to the plate against the OG rules lawyers.

Legal-eagle you should do it you should do something about the movie Saw

To even further your point, video game RPG's since their infancy have also abided by a lot of the fundamental aspects of Dungeons & Dragons rulesets and mechanics. It molded in many ways the way we level up or advance in RPG's in general. Upgrading, and using things like RNG as dice rolls for certain aspects of the game were ground-laying for the genre on the whole. From the law itself to general populace mindset, overall, Wizards can only control so very little in the end. I see it as a move to double down on their IP's, models, characters, etc... ensuring perhaps the continued viability for the future of the company perhaps, and I'm not aware of their current financial status but with an increasingly volatile inflation rate and economic environment, they may just be taking steps to solidify and take a forward looking position. The world has taken and created vastly more content than them anyways though but, great video, informative.

"do want you want cause a pirate a free".

I always wondered, why would anyone care about what some company said? Who would prevent you from creating your content based on D&D?

As for your homebrew examples, and herein lies the rub, D20's campaigns simply use the freely reproducible rules over entirely self-generated expressions of BLeeM's messed-up mind while CR's Matt Mercer used an extensive amount of the copyrighted D&D lore in the essential construction of Exandria long before his games became a multi-million dollar property. And instead of being thankful for CR's part in the resurgence of D&D and driving people to buy licensed products, WotC/Hasbro fired a very targeted and greedy shot at CR's successful coffers via the proposed OGL changes. Hence, why Mercer has purged most copyrighted material from the later campaigns and is working on a colossal reset to the mythological lore of his storytelling. It is also why CR has created a new alternative rules system to 5e and have called it Daggerheart - as in WotC's move was a corporate dagger to the heart of D&D.

Objection your honor! the term Nerd is derogatory. please instruct the oposing party to use the correct terminology - enthusiastic expert

I love watching your videos, you break down important things so that someone who hasn't studied law can understand the basics and what it may mean for them. I have questions on some things and not sure where to go (Other than a wiki) and asked a friend who pointed me to this video to watch. I'm not sure if my question is answered, or if there is someone who can answer it, and wondering if you can either point in a direction of where to look, or if you or another could cover the topic?

"Nothing quite ruins a good idea like money and/or lawyers " -- some guy

It's impossible to not click on a LegalEagle video. The thumbnails are so on point.

I have watched a few different videos, posts, and heard friends talk about it but have been confused SO many times. One person would say, "It's about this" and then someone else chime in and say "NO! It's about THAT!"
I will say that this video cleared up a LOT of that confusion 😅

Yasss!!! That’s just a theory..a game (legal) theory! Crossover please!!!!!!

i need to see him talk about rules lawyer problems in dnd, like "do the human lungs count as a container for the purposes of the spell create food and water"

It should be clarified that a videogame has copyrighted elements, but it is not completely copyrighted. For example, if you mod out all the characters and copyrighted images then you are left without copyrighted material. Probably a good idea for a video.

IDK where to ask this, but I'm a fan of your channel and just saw a video from penguiz0 which seems pretty wild legally. Apparently Wizards of the Coast sent Pinkertons (which are apparently still a thing) to some dude's house because he had some Magic the Gathering cards which weren't meant to be released yet. Given that the individual with the cards was sent them by accident and not being held to an agreement with WotC, how is this legal?

I'm new to D&D. I've spent the last few months trying to learn the D&D 101 stuff, buying books, watching game sessions and videos by players and DMs, etc. And now I'm about to put all of my D&D stuff, along with my regret for having put money into this thing, into a cardboard box and take it to the dump. I understand the need to protect content but this sh!t has gone waaayyyy beyond stupid. I hope WotC and Hasbro, whose CEO is a guy named Chris C0cks, btw, (I'm not kidding) regret this stunt.

Uhhh...what?

These games have a patent on their game rules.

Monopoly — Patent issued in 1935
Rubik's Cube — Patent granted in 1983
Battleship — Patented in 1935 under the title “Game Board”
Rock'em Sock'em Robots — Patented in 1966
Twister — Patented in 1969
Simon — Patented in 1979

I like your last statement. So crude 😅

I love that you have a flag for Critical Role and I love that you know who they are.

@LegalEagle can you do a video about DKOldies and the class action lawsuit?

A like I'm honor of Hoeg but also laughed out loud at the "Cool kids play Magic" bit

Do these corporations even have business lawyers?

Looking back, I think the OGL fiasco was probably less about any real legal ramifications and more of a flashpoint for general customer dissatisfaction with Wizards of the Coast (and by extension Hasbro). The past year in particular, WotC had repeatedly blundered through harebrained opportunities to be as greedy as possible for no benefit to the consumer. The OGL update coming very swiftly after their statement that D&D was massively under-monetised gave everyone a reasonable expectation that the thing they'd loved for decades was about to be dismantled and sold back piecemeal. WotC has a lot of ground to make up in terms of trust. I'm a fan of the products they make, and I utterly despite how they're going about making, marketing, and selling them.

"Cool kids play Magic..."
Them's fighting words, sir.

The edit adding the d20 roll to the die shaking hand movement was appreciated.

Thank you for your tribute to Hoeg. He is an amazing dude and I have been so happy since he started filming again.

Okay, the fact that he actually said, "rules lawyer" makes this an automatic win.

Regardless of our feelings of DnD and this copyright scandal, I think we can all agree that the best movie adapted from a game, of all time, is Clue.

Could they patent the system or mechanics? Because I recall that that was done with the Nemesis system to prevent people from creating similar systems (from scratch).

Has anyone looked into the long-term health effects of smoke bomb use? I'm worried for you LegalEagle

Can I be a Dungeons and Dragons lobbyist for Wizards of the Coast?

He said cool kids play Magic and I wanted to quit xD

So if I make a game, and I repeat the rules manual ad nasium, tweaking the way its expressed, I would eventually be able to prevent anyone from writing down their rules in a sensible way and sell it? Oh wait but you could just make the rules free and the rest of the product not, nvm

WOTC: "Wow. This is getting really popular. We should be making more money off of our player base."

Paizo: "Nearly everything is available for FREE, and all open source. The CRB, thr GM Guide, every expansion, every setting book, all free through our offical partner Archuves of Nethys.
You don't "have" to spend a single penny if you don't want to. We also just have a better game. 😉
Enjoy!"

I was already strongly considering switching over to Pathfinder 2e when the OGL dropped. PF2e is, in my personal opinion, a better system.

OGL just sealed the deal, and made it much easier to commit to the switch.

The "no republicans" clause is especially lovely.

There's a D&D podcast called Dungeons and Daddies. It's about 4 dad who get sent to the Forgotten Realms and have to save their sons. In episodes 46-47, one of the characters, Glenn, is on trail. I think it'd be a fun to see a lawyer react to the case, it's an insanely funny episode.

Copywriting the D&D rules is like trying copywriting math.

The main problem I had was the "We get a license for whatever you make related to DnD and use it for whatever we want, including selling exact copies."

Well done I finally know what is going on and I have looked at about 10 different videos that are hard to understand. Everyone has an explanation for this ogl thing. But with your very informative video I finally understand what it is all about thank you very much and have a very nice day. Also 5 minutes later look at all this babble in the comments who can understand them thank you again for making it easy to understand and your other stuff also is excellent.