2025: The Year in Roleplaying
appelcline Tariffs, Diamond Comics, and AI all attacked the industry in 2025, but it nonetheless prospered.
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Is the OGL Era Over? (Two Years Later)
Two years later, what happened to the licenses & games that were in the news when Wizards tried to revoke the OGL?
2024: The Year in Roleplaying
A look at 2024: the D&D 50th anniversary, digital missteps, the OGL-inspired competitors, and more.
2023: The Year in Roleplaying
A summary of WotC's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year, plus there was lots more of note!
Is the OGL Era Over? (Part Four)
Wizards entered December with massive layoffs. How did that relate to the OGL disaster that opened up the year?
Is the OGL Era Over? (Part Three)
The rest of WotC's disastrous opening of 2023, including the failed OGL 1.2 and their capitulation.
Is the OGL Era Over? (Part Two)
Verification that the leak about WotC's attack on the OGL was true, and the rapid response.
Is the OGL Era Over?
A first look at Wizards of the Coast's predatory attempt to overthrow the OGL.
TSR Connections: Licensees & Lawsuits
TSR was a study in opposites: early on, they embraced licensees, but when they got big, lawsuits became the order of the day.
Wizards of the Coast Next: 2011-Present
At last, the chronicle of D&D 5e and what happened afterward.