Recent content by pedr

This doesn’t seem to be an open licence of the same sort as the OGL and open software licences. From what I can tell it isn’t written as a template for users of WotC open content to use to also license their own content and doesn’t have a viral effect on the openness of other parties’ content.

Implying that the OneDnD changes will be made to SRD 5.1 rather than a separate SRD 5.5 release, and saying that publishing content based on SRD 5.1 means you agree to the OGL 1.1 is … clever? Underhand? I suppose an interesting question would be whether a publication which claims to be based...

I wonder what, exactly, “SRD-based D&D content” is?

RPGA numbers were merged into DCI numbers at some point perhaps a decade ago. Since then there’s been another database move but unless that broke things, I seem to recall that you can turn an RPGA number into a DCI number by making it a 9-digit number with the first digit ‘1’ and as many 0s as...

I’m not surprised. I expect there’ll be a significant group for whom this is the first D&D book they buy, and many others who will own this and the PHB. I think it’d probably beat a hypothetical Forgotten Realms Campaign guide, even though that would also attract people who aren’t regularly...

Besides the already-nominated Wolves of God and Swords of the Serpentine, I played a great playtest of Dramaghul: City on the Edge of Nowhere, a Wordplay 2 game from Wordplay Games. I have no idea if it's scheduled for a 2020 release, but I'm looking forward to it whenever it emerges!

I like the release of actual sales figures for the Starter Set. 126,000 in North America in 2014 (from the July release); 306,000 in North America in 2018. I wonder what we can extrapolate from that!

For a unashamedly British take on urban fantasy, perhaps look at Liminal (https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/267203/Liminal, with a quick-start here: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/258103/Liminal-Quickstart). It has some setting assumptions built loosely into the character concepts, but...

Yeah, I'm a little annoyed that I'll probably have to wait a bit, but it'll be in general distribution worldwide - the D&D Beyond article says it'll be released to all channels on 3rd September so it's only a two month delay.

Indeed. It might be lawful (but ridiculously rude) to release that adjustment/adaptation of the adventure on DM’s Guild. Even that might breach DM’s Guild terms relating to attribution of other DM’s Guild sources. But the Elder Scrolls adventure at the very least has elements which are copied...

WotC has announced the reveal of the next D&D adventure hardcover, which will be unveiled at 'The Descent' in LA on Friday 17th May at 4pm PDT (midnight BST). D&D Live 2019: The Descent will be a celebration of the Dungeons & Dragons community as they gather to learn about the latest...

The premium residential LARP experiences of College of Wizardry in Poland and New World Magischola in the US show how this can work. From the accounts I’ve read they’re well-designed and make use of the expectations and techniques of (character interaction, not boffer) LARP to create something...

It seems to me there is no perfect way to do shipping for Kickstarters. As Fred Hicks and Evil Hat have noted, including shipping costs in the KS pledge artificially inflates the total raised (and, as the costs are variable, doesn’t do so predictably). It also puts the risk of postage cost...

There’s a D&D Twitch channel at https://twitch.tv/dnd for the video recordings of the podcasts and the podcasts themselves are posted as articles somewhere on the D&D website because a Twitter D&D article aggregator I follow tweets links to them, if you don’t want to use the links to the audio...