"Forgive"??? Not for me. I can not forgive a corporate who brought chaos in the ttrpg just to make more money while at the same time would destroy many smaller companies in order to "crush" competion. Their intentions are still there. This kind of thinking is hard-coded in companies like Hasbro...
Eberron is not my favorite setting and Keith Baker is not my favorite rpg creator. I have played Eberron and enjoyed but I would never run a session in his world. However, I fully respect his work and his attitude.
Having said that, if he tries something new, like the project he mentions, I...
Well, sometimes you have to make a comment just to congratulate the reporter. Really enlightening article that explains a lot of what is happening the last months!
I disagree. I think, for the first time the creators will have (almost) every ruleset out there through SRDs. I expect new wave of books which will combine a multitude of rules from various RPG companies, under one license.
Well, making a little research I found in their forum 2 weeks ago about their OGL
Also in their facebook site regarding the ORC iniative
3 days ago:
4 days ago:
It is interesting that they had pulled down their old OGL couple weeks before the whole uproar got started. Coincidence? They were one of the companies Hasbro had approached? They had inside info from another company (ex they have great relationship with Modiphius)?
If ORC acts as an umbrella for different game systems that means that as a creator you can use mechanics and rules from every system you want? For example could you use a mechanic that you found in Paizo's SRD and a mechanic from Chaosium's SRD and put these in your product?