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- Embed this notice@patcharcana The important thing is that Wizards can't copyright D&D.
They can copyright their writing down of D&D - but not D&D.
And the core conflict the OGL solved was people having incredibly petty and stupid arguments about what that was, and then the entire budgets of gaming companies going to lawyers instead of books.
Fun Fact that this kind of fuckery is why most card based games have a mechanic called Exhaust
You see - you can't copyright "turn a card on its side to indicate you've used it" but you *can* trademark the term Tap to mean that.
Because Wizards sucks.