Recent content by Grantypants

You could explicitly make the drow into an organization instead of an ancestry/subrace/etc. In a campaign largely set in a single multicultural city, the drow are a group of elf-supremacist terrorists hostile to all non-elves. Instead of being literally underground, they are a figuratively...

It's meaningless, except for when there are consequences. There's an assumption baked into "Is it art?" that I think a lot of us ignore. That's the idea that, if something is "art", then, solely because it's officially "art", it should be respected and admired. I disagree with that. I think that...

What are the consequences if an RPG gets officially labeled "art"? Or officially "not art"? I don't want it to sound like I'm dismissing the premise of the thread. Exhibit curators have to look at artistic factors like the ones discussed as part of deciding what to include or exclude, but they...

Someone in the underdark was farming carrion crawlers, intending to harvest their secretions for medicinal purposes. This was working fine until a great battle in an ongoing war took place nearby. Now the crawlers have escaped their pens in search of a battlefield where they can feast. The...

This question came up in passing at my table, and I suggested that the names attached to some spells were brand names. Other generic spells were either knockoffs or the copyright/patent/etc had expired. The campaign didn't really dig into this any further, but I think that concept could support...

Gate Pass Gazette is focused on Level Up so it's not quite what I'm looking for. Also, I'm already getting that one. I should have mentioned En5ider as a decent option though.

It got overshadowed by all the other OGL commotion, but Arcadia and Warlock both announced that they would be coming to an end soon. Can anyone suggest some good replacements that are still putting out 5e content in that zine/magazine style? Extra points if it's being released in print + pdf.

Enough of the SRD has been released under CC-BY that someone will make a 5e compatible clone. Whether that's Kobold Press's Black Flag or whoever else, someone will make a usable system and I can release whatever I want through that.

I'm not concerned about the morality clause at all. Let's say they decide my conduct is hateful. That would only keep me from using the content in the 5.1 SRD that has not been released under Creative Commons.

One surefire way to make sure your concerns are NOT heard is by complaining about things that they took out of the latest OGL draft. For example, if the draft that WotC says they will release tomorrow doesn't have the license-back provision, but your survey response includes an angry rant about...

It doesn't surprise me that we haven't heard from Goodman Games, Critical Role, or Acquisitions Incorporated about this. They all have pre-existing contracts with WotC to produce books outside of the OGL, plus whatever other potential active contracts they have. I might have missed some...

I usually agree with most of what Doctorow says, but here I think he overlooks the significant value of a safe harbor. Limiting what 3pps can publish in exchange for not putting the 3pp through a lawsuit (even a lawsuit that the 3pp should eventually win) was a good deal for just about every...

Has Linda Codega from Gizmodo/io9 posted a copy of what she says is a leaked draft from December? She claims she got it from "a non-WotC developer". Is there any independent verification that what she looked at is real?

You might be right. On the other hand, WotC is sinking a lot of money into this VTT plan, so they have to have a plan for making some of that back. One efficient way of doing that will be to open up a marketplace so that they can get paid for whatever art the fans add to the game. Good 3d...

One thing I expect to see is something along the lines of the DM's Guild but for 3d assets in the VTT. WotC would no doubt love to see the modding communities that popped up around games like Neverwinter Nights, but with them in control of what can be downloaded and them getting a cut of each sale.