Recent content by bmfrosty

I'm under the impression that many of the settings are under exclusive license, but are still owned by their creators. Like I don't think Eberron can be used as an official setting for Pathfinder, but WotC has to pay Keith to use it on an ongoing basis.

Agreed on D&D. MTG is not a concern for the D&D company. I'm mostly thinking about what can be done better with D&D. I think it is still pretty central to central to a certain style of fantasy role play. I think Wizards has unintentionally spawned a bunch of competitors. I think most of...

I have no knowledge about what settings they own trademarks and copyrights for. I assume that they don't have all of them. If they're separated from WotC, they probably can't do anything with MTG settings. I suspect extensive legal research would have to be done on a lot of them.

You're not too far from my treatment of d&d myself and I'm not not going to go far into the media parts.

Current licenses carry over.

I'm working from my phone, so there will be much brevity. 500k. Enough to live well as as head of a single income household with kids in a suburb of a major metropolitan area where the D&D Co is located. Irrelevant. Rich Guy bought it to brag about. He's happy if it's paying for it's own...

Lol. I'm ignoring the run into the ground comments, but I will talk about public licensing when I do my post this weekend. I think whoever owns the brand needs to acknowledge what they can and can't own and that acknowledgement of that is good for the community. I think Dancey was right that...

One name: Lorraine Dille Williams.

Total hypothetical discussion here, but with the current and recent news and controversy with WotC, I think it will be an interesting discussion. I'll post a response to myself later and links to popular responses when I'm near a real keyboard. The hypothetical is that a tech billionaire wants...

I don't have an opinion who, but I can't help but wonder if the major functions should be broken out. Role play as one. Collectible card games as another and board games as a third instead of all under one head.

Wizards has had an eventful couple of years. The only reason that I care is that they hold stewardship over the D&D brand. I have no interest in the modern version of that particular game. I'd love to know the inside baseball of what happened over the last couple of years though with the big...

This could just be an alternate reality where Warner didn't merge with Discovery, but with Disney instead. I'd think that Disney keeps them separate, but makes their mark by refocusing DC around what's popular and keeping things sex-free.

It's all a bunch of judgement calls anyway. Personally it's all about not having the build metagame and reducing fighting complexity. I also like having 6 attributes. I give DCC a pass in that it still has 6, but I still think it would have been better if it had the original 6 and added Luck...

I fully agree that Pathfinder is not OSR. I've run across multiple people who argue that it's OSR because it's a retroclone, and I just saw that video. I think there are several interesting splits between d&d style games. The first is if there's metagame around character builds. I think...

I keep thinking about the state of OSR systems - specifically in the commercial sense. I keep thinking that DCC, OSE, and ShadowDark are the top of the pile right now, but a few others (LL, S&W, and OSRIC) are hanging on, plus there are bunch that never really left the lulu stage and a bunch...