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Comment on 'There's almost nobody left': CEO of Baldur's Gate 3 dev Swen Vincke says the D&D team he initially worked with is gone, due to Hasbro layoffs

arc@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

The same Hasbro that tried to make a land grab for all D&D derivative content by changing their Open Game License to grant them irrevocable, perpetual rights to it. This is not a nice company as they demonstrate time and again.

So maybe it’s time the RPG community stopped thinking Hasbro are ever going to change, mourn for what D&D has become, but move onto something else.

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Patches@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
The OGL License happened after Larian teamed up with Hasbro

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- NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  
  Thankfully Larian is still independent
  
  Was getting worried there and about to Google more on the subject. Happy to head that.
  
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  - tvarog_smetana@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    If you haven’t played it, Divinity Original Sin 2 is a fantastic Larian-made RPG that uses a non-D&D system.
    
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    NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I have played it and really enjoyed it.
    
    I wouldn’t have been so excited about bg3 otherwise.
    
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papertowels@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Shout-out to Pathfinder, paizo, and their new license!

[> "The whole point of the ORC is to give the gaming community comfort, confidence, and certainty,” the licence states. “It gives our community a license that is not reliant on any one company.”

](dicebreaker.com/…/paizo-releases-final-version-of…)

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menemen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
This is mostly a USA problem. :) There are so many great pnp systems out there. But there will be a learning curve.

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- ctobrien84@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  What? We don’t have a plethora of other games here in the US? I’ll have to remind the owners of all those shops that those hundreds of other games they’re selling currently only exist outside of the US. How embarrassing for us…
  
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