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The OGL (v1.0a) was originally published by Wizards of the Coast in 2000 to license the use of portions of the third edition of Dungeons & Dragons, via a System Reference Document (SRD), thus allowing third-party publishers to produce compatible material.
In 1997, Peter Adkison paid Arneson an undisclosed sum to free up Dungeons & Dragons from royalties owed to Arneson; this allowed Wizards of the Coast to retitle Advanced Dungeons & Dragons simply Dungeons & Dragons. [120]: 282 [121] In 2004, Arneson said of Gygax: "We see each other at conventions. He does his thing and I do mine.
The publication of the System Reference Document (SRD) for 3rd edition under the Open Game License (OGL) allowed other companies to use the rules to create their own variants of Dungeons & Dragons, providing that they did not use anything Wizards of the Coast considered trade dress or signature content, known as "product identity" under the ...
Some Dungeons & Dragons gamers are frustrated by new rule changes in which character traits have been "divorced from biological identity," in an apparent attempt to be more inclusive.
The Game System License is a license that allows third-party publishers to create products compatible with and using the intellectual property from the 4th edition of Dungeons & Dragons (D&D). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was released to the public by Wizards of the Coast (WotC) on June 17, 2008.
The OGL was published by WOTC in 2000 to license the System Reference Document (SRD) for D&D in a move spearheaded by Dancey. [3] Dancey also co-authored the Hero Builder's Guidebook (2000). [4] Dancey later moved to being a consultant, and was among those employees Wizards laid off before the end of 2002. [2]: 291
A new OGL-licensed SRD based on 5th edition was released in January 2016, and updated to version 5.1 in May 2016. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] In January 2023, Wizards of the Coast announced that the full D&D System Reference Document 5.1 (SRD 5.1) would be released under the CC-BY-4.0 license.
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