On Friday, January 13, 2023 at 6:06:32 AM UTC-7, gmk...@gmail.com quoted, in part:

This Open RPG Creative License (ORC) is a direct response to the reports that have come out over the past week about the status of Wizards’
updated Open Gaming License 2.0.

The
companies include some major third-party publishers, including “Kobold Press, Chaosium, Green Ronin, Legendary Games, Rogue Genius Games, and Battlezoo.” Paizo is actively looking to add to this group of publishers.

It's all very well that a number of rules systems will be available under this new license.

I could be wrong, but my perception was that what a lot of game publishers would have liked was being able to license the _original_ Dungeons & Dragons rules from way back when, not AD&D 5.0, 4.0, or even 3.5.

And so the OGL was intended to encourage people developing scenarios to
develop them in the form that would promote the sale of TSR's _current_ products.

Now, Chaosium publishes Basic Role-Playing, and the people at Basic Fantasy
are working on a new editiion of that game that will be available under a Creative
Commons license (the existing one is based on AD&D 3.5 under the OGL,
although, like DCC, also now one of those that are involved in the ORC, it's modified to be more like the earlier versions of the game), so perhaps there will be options available in this direction.

John Savard

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