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David Pulver said that he was told that GURPS Vehicles specifically couldn't use cube roots or logarithms. So there's tables like 1-9: 0, 10-99: 1, 100-999: 2, 1000-9999: 3 and literally "so on", which is a logarithm base 10 in table form. That certainly wouldn't have bothered me, but GURPS...

Double post.

You've got the D&D 3.0 and 3.5 SRDs and Tome of Horrors for official D&D content under the OGL, as well as thousands of pages of unofficial content for D&D 3, 3.5, 5, Pathfinder and OSR. In any sense that encompasses D&D of all editions, D&D is free.

Except that Debian ships, or will ship, the 5.1 SRD in one of those 50,000 packages, literally or as a derivative work, likely in either a character creator or game. How will WotC be extremely different from the copyright holders of the other 50,000 packages then?

The CC-BY is a copyright license, so copyright law is the natural place to look. I know of no law--nor think there should be any--that governs "tech", and likewise, I know of no law about "RPGs"; those are the wrong boxes to work with. Perhaps you should explain why WotC releasing the SRD under...

That's an impossible standard. But the law is Title 17, which says they're both literary works, and in some cases, the works in question (usually just the graphics or documentation) are licensed under the CC-BY 4.0. It's clear that the Creative Commons licenses were based off the existing open...

If the facts matter, then the GPL or BSD are revocable under certain circumstances. One way the law invites despise is when (a) facts matter, especially facts the average person may not know and in ways the average person may not understand and (b) the only way to know is to have enough money...

The CC licenses are closely analogous to the BSD and GPL licenses. An argument that WotC can pull back a CC license from the SRD is going to be basically the same as an argument that someone can pull back a BSD or GPL license. It's the same thing; you're offering a license on a copyrighted text...

I disagree about making game statistics, but IANAL. More to the point, a contract between parties A and B doesn't bind party C. Unless there was copyright or trademark involved, no one would have any right to stop Chaosium or TSR from publishing game stats. Obviously Chaosium and TSR believed...

Looking at the current status of the Cthulhu Mythos in D&DG, Ithaqua and Cthuga are from August Derleth, and Ithaqua at least seems to properly renewed under US copyright. That part of the book seems safe for life+50 countries, but not US or EU. Of course it's the Melnibonean mythos (from the...

Except that you weren't happy with FATE with a subscription of support material when they changed to a new system, and you aren't half-way through an adventure path in FATE2e with your friends that means you're likely to be running FATE2e for the rest of the year. It's not really comparable to...

Paizo did the only adventure path in RPG history from a first party developer that was for evil characters. If you loosen that restriction to just adventure or including third party developers, I'm sure there's a few more; Steve Jackson's In Nomine had a few (as, I think, INS/MV), there was a...

So they changed their minds from D&D 3e, despite the sunk cost in materials, but they won't change their minds from PF1e given the sunk cost in materials, even if PF2e was manifestly better in every way. Or maybe they looked at it, played it a little, and decided they didn't like it?

Mechanically this amounts a +2 bonus on nonlethal attacks, and at least in first edition, the use of the Merciful Spell metamagic feat. It's hardly world shaking within the bounds of the game.

Since day one, official RPG books have been discouraging certain type of behaviors considered bad, in part to uphold the image of the game in the outside world. If you want to play a game where cops summarily execute people without charge or trial, you're welcome to, but most of us don't, and...