Paizo, Kobold Press, MCDM, and the ORC
During a week when Wizards of the Coast kept mostly silent about the situation, multiple third-party publishers announced their plans to step away from the OGL 1.0 and 1.1 entirely. Bastions of third-party content like Kobold Press and MCDM announced that they would be writing their own systems. Paizo announced that it would be financing the establishment of its own default gaming license, called the Open RPG Creative License, or the ORC, which will eventually be stewarded by an independent nonprofit, much like the Linux Foundation. Paizo announced on January 19 that over 1,500 companies now support the ORC.
