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I can't make head nor tails of that. Anyway, the OGL and the d20 STL served WotC very well and created a network of supporting...

No, and people weren't shy about pointing this out even at the time. (Not a lawyer, just someone who listens to actual lawyers when...

Was that actual case law or statute at the time? A trademark has to be defended, if it's being used in trade by someone else. . .a...

That strips a lot of benefits... Rituals 0) lack arbitrary usage frequency limits (ie the limits they have feel naturalistic in both...

Never played one (I DM'd more often) but I remember a game where the warden and warlord were the only ones who were conscious in an...

Yep. Watching people argue 5e vs 2e... certainly could make you want to play 4e... ;P

All the D20 crash did was reroute traffic away from the questionable 3pp products back to the original publisher (WotC). The market...

So deal harshly with that, if you feel it's necessary. It doesn't follow that you have to deal equally harshly with the other 95% of the...

I'd add also that in addition to the fact that you, indeed, can't lose your copyright that way, 'defending' a trademark includes things...

Yeah this is one of these things (confusing copyright and trademark) I've heard lawyers refer to as "Laymen-law", where loads of members...

"Companies that fail to defend their trademarks can lose them. Just ask the original makers of cellophane, escalators, and trampolines...

Similarly to 3E and Skills & Powers, 4E flows very logically from late 3.5 product developments that were well received in certain...

In fairness to you, True20, whose best-known implementation is Mutants & Masterminds, attempted this. How well it worked is a matter of...

Yeah, I get it. I don’t know if some alternative to HP couldn’t be implemented that would still leave D&D feeling like D&D, but I...

Never going to be a fan of suggestions for "improving" D&D that are basically "make it not recognizable as D&D anymore", especially in a...