The Great Licensing War

The Great Licensing War began in late 2022, when wizards' executives asked publishers to agree to an updated version of the OGL. The new legal framework would require any publisher with greater than $50,000 in annual sales to report details of their D&D related dealings to wizards. When copies of the contract leaked online, the RPG community accused Hasbro of trying to restrict their work and stifle innovation. More than 77,000 people signed a petition decrying the new OGL as an attempt to dismantle the entire RPG industry. By late January, only a few weeks after the new contract leaked, Hasbro announced that it would no longer be revoking the original OGL.