Incidentally, I want less DnD games now, given what's going on with the OGL. I want to support those creators, and not have to support Hasbro/WotC. I won't be buying the Season 2 pass for WotR until I know what's happening with the Pathfinder stuff as a result of this.
Not telling you what to do with your money but I don't think that works against Hasbro. As I read the OGL it's really designed to hamper Paizo's / Pathfinder's business. It actually says something to that effect in surprisingly explicit terms.
If I'm the only one, then it will have 0 effect. However, when content creators start killing off any connection to DnD, and people that think like I do start looking to them instead, it starts to mean something. However, net 0 effect or not, I plan to stand on my principles. Whether it does anything to Hasbro et al or not is not my main concern, my main concern is sticking to what I believe. Some of the things I've seen thrown about are:
Do you dress up as an elf and do a cooking show on YouTube? Hasbro wants to talk to you. Hey, you can continue to publish your work, to these spots, but you're not allowed to publish anywhere else, because we're planning on taking your work, and publishing it there, and we're not going to pay you when we do.
Yeah, I'm not keen on supporting that. Royalties are fine, within reason. But 25% of your gross earnings? That's a bit extreme. I mean, the background systems are the equivalent of a game engine for PC/Console games, and if you're using someone else's engine, you're going to pay them for a license, but I'd be willing to bet, with no knowledge of exactly how it works, that it's nowhere near that.
