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bsss replied to the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)?.1: No. 2: A railroad is when there is only one (or very few) way(s) for the adventure to progress, and so it shall progress. It can... -
Even with WotC moving the 5e SRDs to a CC-BY 4.0 license, I don't think that undoes the harm done by WotC. Any time a hobbyist or...
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I think its absurd to ask "why are you even GMing" if you have some aspects that feel like work or not enjoying that much. I yet have to...
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bsss replied to the thread Things you don’t like about DMing.For me, it's a bit of the anxiety as above. It's less about my content and more just committing to being "on" rather than playing a...
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bsss replied to the thread We All Won – The OGL Three Years Later.The point of the FUD isn't to assert foregone truths, it's to allude to enough risk that you get what you want anyway. This...
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bsss replied to the thread We All Won – The OGL Three Years Later.Yeah, that's how FUD works. Until the point WotC actually took any action against a party for using the v1.0a license (which they never...
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With the OGL I assure you that others would have joined the fight. There was a lot of talk behind the scenes. Too many companies have...
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bsss replied to the thread We All Won – The OGL Three Years Later.Right, that the OGL v1.0/v1.0a could --- would --- be revoked by a WotC decree was essentially them spreading FUD that got folks worked...
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I tend to agree with that, there are reasons to prefer CC over the OGL, but none of them are that one is revocable and the other is not
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But I do trust the old OGL. It's a legal document, and I am confident that I and my lawyers understand it. Trusting WotC? That’s...
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bsss replied to the thread We All Won – The OGL Three Years Later.For 13A 2E it's only ("only") 32 products, assuming their copyright notices are complete, a lot of which are owned by Fire Opal Media or...
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This is exactly what I don't like about this response. It doesn't "turn out" anything, and there was nothing weak about the status quo...
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bsss replied to the thread We All Won – The OGL Three Years Later.To describe my "off-ramp" idea a bit, since it's related to what you were and are saying: I think the most (universally) valuable...
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I can't speak for the publishers, and would be interested to hear specific perspectives, but as a general principle, yes it did threaten... -
bsss replied to the thread We All Won – The OGL Three Years Later.For works that were benefiting from the OGL 1.0a, or were going to, the answer at the time was "nobody knows" and that was because of...