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But their revenue from the rules is also due to name recognition and critical mass. 5e would sell far less if it wasn't called Dungeons and Dragons.

It's a good thing they never released Magic under the OGL, otherwise Disney would have been able to create its own Trading Card Game ... The worth of D&D is in the name, not in the rules. There are, in my opinion of course, better games out there, but stuff like Stranger Things made people...

There are parts in 3.5 that are Open Content but not in the SRD, including Unearthed Arcana. If they are that worried about releasing stuff into Creative Commons and truly no longer intend to deauthorize the OGL, they could just release a OGL 1.3 that is similar to OGL 1.0a but irrevocable.

It's fascinating how strongly some people dislike 4e and anything reminding them of it. 5e was supposed to bring players of all previous editions together, including 4e. If you don't like a certain class, you don't have to play it. Pathfinder's 2e player base has become far less dismissive of...

I'd be more interested in who won together with us.

Than what was it that you were trying to say? Hopefully something that's not "I wish for these people I disagree with to suffer serious and life threatening physical harm".

What was that obvious metaphor supposed to convey instead? Bear in mind that many users of that forum like myself don't speak English as their first language.

This whole debate will become moot once Wizkids releases the mini far less detailed than the render.

There are subclasses like Battlemaster that could easily be expanded on (like Tasha's did). Similar cases could be found for other types of content like feats or spells. I'd also like to state that Kobold Press' stance is preferable to the one I see from other 3PPs who now proudly declare that...

Generous Open Content makes games more inclusive. Allowing people access your rules for free makes the games far more open and welcoming than changing the color of your logo a few times a year and declaring "* is for everyone". Money is an enormous gatekeeper, after all. It also improves the...

It's weird, some classes like clerics have multiple printed classes while others don't. But those missing classes are still referenced in the text. It seems pretty sloppy for a SRD. The interesting thing is that it contains many of the classic creatures left behind while being released under the...

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic anyway.

The 3.5 SRD was reviewed more than 20 years ago. The PHB material didn't contain deities or XP charts, the DMG material didn't contain the planes or Red Wizards and the MM section didn't contain certain monsters like Beholders or Carrion Crawlers (that selection was somewhat weird). It was ready...

Did you use the English version or the translation by Amigo and later FuS? There were some attempts to release some German version of the magazines which contained content from both, but it wasn't successful if I recall correctly. The content of the magazines was a mixed bag. Some stuff from...

I'm not from the US either but from Germany, so it's probably more about having been around that era (or having done some research about it). I guess most American players who started with 5e don't know about it, either. Paizo was pretty much created to publish the Dragon and Dungeon Magazines...

Considering that Paizo did a lot of advertising for new D&D books in Dragon and published lots of adventures in Dungeon to run, they most likely did. Taking the magazines away from them wasn't a great idea.

I prefer a free resource site containing all the rules that I can refer potential players to, combined with a continuously updated character editor that offers most of each features for free with some requiring a one-time purchase to unlock. Both legal without any fear of legal actions against...

Why would I buy single pieces of rules when I can get them for free from a site supported by the publisher? WotC's relationship with the fans of its games is increasingly toxic, yet those fans keep crawling back, celebrating minor concessions as major victories. At this point people should just...