licensing
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Risk 2210 and Nexus Ops among board games slated for reprints by Vampire: The Masquerade studio
Renegade Game Studios continues scooping up publishing rights to previous Hasbro titles.
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Pathfinder studio pushes several RPG books into 2024 amid relocation and website upgrades
CEO Jim Butler said Pathfinder and Starfinder material had to move to 2024 to make room for for ORC licence sourcebooks.
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Bridgerton board game readies for a turn within the Netflix series adaptation machine
Scandals, suitors and the search for a good licensed board game.
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Pathfinder maker’s Open RPG Creative Licence enters final draft and feedback period
This is your last chance to submit corrections and comments before the licence heads to the US Library of Congress.
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Pathfinder Studio releases first draft of ORC universal roleplaying game licence for public comment
Paizo skipped Creative Commons in favour of a highly permissible and unalterable RPG licence.
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Project Black Flag’s first crack at a D&D replacement is more retread than reinvention
Kobold Press’ post-OGL efforts feel trapped underneath the shadow of tabletop’s maligned monolith.
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Mutant: Year Zero, Blade Runner RPG maker asks for feedback on two royalty-free tabletop licences
Free League’s Year Zero Engine will be “irrevocable, worldwide and royalty-free”
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Warhammer RPG maker announces new D&D 5E compatible system alongside “tragic fantasy” setting
Broken Weave will crowdfund in February and offer first hints at Cubicle 7’s upcoming C7d20 system
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D&D abandons quest to update OGL after massive negative survey response
Publisher Wizards of the Coast instead puts even more content into the Creative Commons.
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D&D’s latest OGL playtest releases core rules to Creative Commons but deauthorizes past version
The first official pass at D&D’s legal future will still likely upset some fans
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D&D maker apologises for OGL, will publicly playtest future versions of legal document
“Let me start with an apology. We are sorry. We got it wrong.”
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Dungeons & Dragons publisher responds to OGL criticism: “We rolled a 1”
Wizards of the Coast’s first public statement rescinds royalty tiers but leaves many questions unanswered.
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D&D maker tightens its grip on third-party RPG books with reported OGL changes
Thousands of creators and fans angered by what’s proposed in the leaked document.
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Clank! studio buys Dragon Prince RPG as Fandom exits the tabletop space
Dire Wolf Digital has acquired the Tales of Xadia licence alongside the Cortex studio and will continue development of its announced expansion.
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Marvel United publisher deal with Sony opens the door for The Last of Us, God of War TRPGs
Dungeons & Dad stories.
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Dungeons & Dragons may see future crossovers with other brands through D&D Beyond
The “E” in 5E stands for everything.
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Cortex Prime’s second pass at a community licence directly addresses public criticism
The new document explicitly states who does - and does not - own fan-created content.
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‘What pain do we want to experience?’: Fandom Tabletop address community license backlash
Bart Vickers reflects on what went wrong and how the second iteration aims for clearer communication and more transparency.
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Cortex Prime's new community license sparks criticism among players and RPG designers
The team behind the genre-agnostic RPG plans to address community complaints in a future version of the agreement.