Count_ZeroOrHey, @[email protected], @[email protected]. Remember how back in the day you put out a rulebook called "Divine Right", which had new rules for gods, religions, and worship adapted for a bunch of fantasy RPGs. (🧵 1/)
And then Palladium Books objected because one of the systems you were adapting to was Palladium Fantasy Roleplaying, and you hadn't gotten a license first, because you can't copyright game mechanics. (2/)
But Palladium sued anyway, and while you could win the lawsuit, the cost of fighting it was so financially detrimental that you were going to be unable to publish your new game: Magic The Gathering. (3/)
You survived because @[email protected], the association for the RPG industry, stepped in and managed to find a solution that made both sides happy and kept you alive. (4/)
Now, over 20 years later, you're actively screwing over the industry, and the fans of the games they put out, for a literal percentage, when that industry helped get you where you are today, with #OneDnD's new SRD. (5/)
Now, maybe this is something pushed down from on high at Hasbro. If it is, hopefully someone will stress to them that Wizards would be worth nothing without the industry and fans they're screwing. (6/)
And @[email protected], if you to truly show your worth, now would be the time to provide aid, whether with negotiations or legal assistance, for publishers caught on the wrong side of the new SRD.