{"id":56064,"date":"2023-01-13T20:16:19","date_gmt":"2023-01-14T01:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/?p=56064"},"modified":"2023-01-13T20:16:19","modified_gmt":"2023-01-14T01:16:19","slug":"paizo-announces-system-neutral-open-rpg-license","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/?p=56064","title":{"rendered":"PAIZO ANNOUNCES SYSTEM-NEUTRAL OPEN RPG LICENSE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><i>Industry-leading Independent Publishers Seek Return to Open Gaming<\/i><\/h2>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/1574731_openrpg_header_with_art_1200.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-56065\" src=\"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/1574731_openrpg_header_with_art_1200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/1574731_openrpg_header_with_art_1200.png 600w, http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/1574731_openrpg_header_with_art_1200-300x169.png 300w, http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/1574731_openrpg_header_with_art_1200-150x85.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><b>[REDMOND, WA, January 12, 2023]\u00ad\u00ad<\/b>\u2013 In response to rumors that an upcoming revision of the <b>Open Gaming License (OGL<\/b>) by Wizards of the Coast would \u201cde-authorize\u201d this keystone of the modern tabletop roleplaying industry, Paizo has begun work on a new open, perpetual, and <i>irrevocable<\/i> <b>Open RPG Creative License (ORC)<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Since 2000, the <b>OGL<\/b> has improved the community, incubated creativity, and grown the business of not only the licensees but the licensor. A stated goal of a perpetual and irrevocable <b>OGL<\/b> was to ensure the establishment and longevity of gaming networks and to drive sales to both. Recent reinterpretation notwithstanding, it succeeded. Many companies including Wizards of the Coast have benefitted from that growth.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The <b>Open RPG Creative License (ORC)<\/b> will be built system agnostic for independent game publishers under the legal guidance of <a title=\"Azora Law\" href=\"mailto:OpenRPG@azoralaw.com\"><b>Azora Law<\/b><\/a>, an intellectual property law firm that represents Paizo and several other game publishers. Multiple leading publishers have already signed on to the effort to create a new and truly open license that allows all games to provide their own unique open rules reference documents that open up their individual game systems to the world.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Complete details may be found on <a title=\"Paizo\u2019s blog\" href=\"https:\/\/email.paizo.com\/4XTJ-J5FG-32DF9Z-HIBJK-1\/c.aspx\">Paizo\u2019s blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>About Paizo<\/b><br \/>\nPaizo Inc. is one of the world\u2019s leading hobby game publishers. Since 2002, millions of players have joined the goblin army by playing the Pathfinder\u00ae and Starfinder\u00ae Roleplaying Games in homes, at conventions, at their favorite local game stores, and digitally on virtual tabletops. Paizo.com is an online retail hobby destination for gamers that carries the latest products from top hobby game publishers. Players can also find the newest releases, as well as accessories like dice and maps, miniatures, T-shirts, goblin plush toys, to quickly replenish their adventuring supplies for the next dungeon run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Industry-leading Independent Publishers Seek Return to Open Gaming [REDMOND, WA, January 12, 2023]\u00ad\u00ad\u2013 In response to rumors that an upcoming revision of the Open Gaming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1935,4],"tags":[3521,4754,4138],"class_list":["post-56064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-rpg-news","tag-headline","tag-open-rpg-creative-license","tag-paizo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}