Recent content by Jimmy Dick

This was posted over at Tenkar's Tavern earlier. So It Is Written, So It Is Done - LaNasa v. Tenkar - Case Dismissed With Prejudice

Go Pathfinder! Second Edition is a great system in itself. The Remaster project is coming along well. I am not seeing a decline in our player base for my area. However, without Amazon and digital sales included in the research, I would venture the report is incomplete.

The part where he said WotC owns millions of words explains why Paizo walked away from the OGL, wrote their own license (ORC), and completely retooled Pathfinder 2e via the Remaster project. I still expect WotC to summon lawyers to challenge Paizo and other companies publishing a tabletop RPG if...

I am working on a sandbox FR campaign set around 1490. The goal is to have a lot of player choice by incorporating a lot of material into the setting aimed at a diverse group of players. There's so much stuff out there to fit into the campaign. I like the original FR setting, but after working...

If anything is going to impact the community negatively, it will be to the OSR side of things. As an older gamer who got into the hobby in the 1970s, my generation is now in their 60s with some hitting their 70s and even a few hitting their 80s. I am seeing a lot more obituaries of my...

I am thrilled with all of the news, but the new technology has been badly needed for a long, long time now. Completely replacing everything they have now for a store, the forums, the website, anything tech related is an absolute must!

The solution is to play 2e and enjoy it.

We really are not using ability scores anyway. What will the problem be with a remastered fighter? The Ancestry, Background, and Class feats are still there. The weapons are still there. That's not changing. The ability modifiers are not changing. The three action economy is not changing. Will...

I am happy to see alignment disappear. Most of the younger crowd has been ignoring alignment for a long time. I was actually surprised to still see it in Pathfinder 1e when I first encountered that game system years ago. Based on many of the comments about alignment, it seems that the younger...

Pathfinder 2e has been an excellent edition and one that I was quite happy to see after the mess that Pathfinder 1e turned into. What is so nice about 2e is that I don't have to play it with the 1e people who are stuck in a negative mindset and unwilling to learn a new and better system. This is...

As a few noted, this does not cover ONE DND. I fully expect a separate usage license for it. I wonder if they think the immense player base will shift to it and leave 5e behind relatively swiftly. There's more to this than just ending the fight over the OGL.

You all can keep believing the fantasy all you want, but in the end it will not be compatible with 5e. It may say it, but it will be like trying to convert from Pathfinder 1e to Pathfinder 2e.

This also means that ONE DND will NOT be compatible with 5e.

It is all about the money. WotC executives want to force as many people as possible into purchasing the new ONE DND in a relatively short time. They probably have contracts that give them large bonuses for hitting certain benchmarks. Thus, killing off the OGL and replacing it with one that...

It is all about content creation for ONE DND. WotC desperately needs 3PP to do that for them. Otherwise, WotC has to bear the costs of doing it and that then increases the risk of either losing money outright or not getting a larger return. By ending the older OGL, they would be forcing all 3PP...