Recent content by Ydars

You are quite correct. Many WoTC staffers leaked the OGL plans to a YouTuber called DnDShorts and he and Linda Codega broke the story. They also told us alot more information about the internal workings at WoTC. The person to blame for all this is Chris Cao...

You cannot combine them and it won't help you with that even if you did. Mind Flayers and setting material (FR, Greyhawlk etc) are not in either the OGL or SRD 5.1, so there is no way to do that for One D&D or even 5e once they close the DM's Guild (and I assume they will).

So now they make One D&D completely incompatible with 5e and release no 3rd party license for creators for it. So they get their walled garden but by a different means. Cos this is all just about 5e and previous editions. They will move us all onto One D&D and then the cycle starts all over...

Just read the whole discussion and have to say that I largely agree with KD; low level wizards are very difficult to play at present, and you really have to be on your game. And I say this from the perspective of someone who used to play the type of Wizard in 3.5E, who used Unseen Servant to...

Hmm; I think you've hit the nail on the head here! Religion is always about magical powers but never specifically about devotion. Not only that but a lot of the D&D stuff is really just lists of deities; no idea about rituals, holy people associated with the religion, ties to any kind of...

I have always wondered why most FRPGs shy away from telling us anything about the religions in our game worlds; I mean religion is one of the most powerful forces in the time period our games are set up to 'faux' model, especially in D&D where we have a cleric class. There's not even any good...

Oops; fixed the link! And here's a bit about the design philosophy as well. http://waysider.co.uk/why-your-game-needs-gloamings/ http://www.waysiderpress.com/the-hole-at-the-centre-of-all-f... http://www.waysiderpress.com/it-was-given-to-me-to-know/

Hi All! I am writing a Fantasy RPG that is a mix in 'feel' of Ars Magica, Dragon Warriors, Harn and maybe even a bit of Pendragon thrown in. Now we come to the mechanics! Those resemble nothing found in any of those games and I wanted to gather some opinions on them. See here for details...

Hi all! A new site has just launched that discusses world-building and game design in low magic games and settings; e.g. Dragon Warriors, but there's lots there to chew over for the d20 DM too. http://waysider.co.uk

D&D seems to be played a number of different ways and designing a game that will please everyone is challenging, but I believe it's possible. Couldn't the game be split up into 'meta-tiers' that have different design assumptions? I would propose that the 'prime material plane' be broken into 3...

Oh you were wrong; BadFunWrong!! (joke) Honestly; I had forgotten it was Wyatt who said that stuff online and in the DMG. It is certainly the statement that crystallised for me how far WoTC had taken D&D away from what I thought it was. And yet he is still at WoTC! Do Monte's ramblings worry...

Need you ask (madness is never far away in my case). Seriously though, just because he worked on 4E does not mean Baker backed every single thing it represents; I blame Mearls, Wyatt and Slavisek for the problems in the 'design philosophy' of 4E that turned me off it. Baker did so many good...

You misunderstand me; I am saying that all business accounting is false accounting because it takes notice only of $ and only in a very narrow time slot. This is obviously wrong but things are set up this way to allow bad practices to continue in the name of 'commerce'. To be a true...

WoTC's decision makes perfect sense; in the mad-as-a-hatter, through-the-looking-glass world that is modern business practice. Remember, this is the same genius mentality that has brought us climate change and the credit crunch, and it is all summed up in one phrase; False accounting! It is...

I too, am glad you have decided to stick to RAW; because not doing so fundamentally changes the balance of the game. Look at it another way; how many combats have you ever seen where each person acted whilst everyone else stood around frozen. That is the way D&D combat works; it is an...