About Open Game License (OGL). If you are a regular D&D watcher / player, you would know by now about WotC (Wizard of the coast) and its proposed Open Game License 1.1 (or 2.0). For the uninitiated, allow me to explain the whole situation as simple as possible. What is D&D? D&D, Dungeon & Dragons,...
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