Recent content by mhd

Yeah, I'm aware that this is (most likely, in these times) a good source where I've got no ethical conflicts, I'm just not a fan of anything else there, neither layout, core license nor most adventures I've seen. Simply doesn't float my boat, just like Mothership. I mean, that's one of the many...

I think I follow this on several platforms now, and check out a lot of the links, but it's not really all unicorns & sunshine there, too, still have to vet authors. The "list" is getting way too long these days… And I never could get behind Shadowdark. So many rulesets with better licenses…

I know that feeling, cross-checking release news against my "bad actors" list is in itself an act that discourages me from participation sometimes, even when it turns out there's nothing to worry about.

Is there a chance we'll get outside of this increasing focus on characters mostly depending on one ability? I guess this would be hard to fix if one would just concentrate on the skill system, as everywhere else it's perfectly fine to base everything you do regularly on CHA/INT/WIS etc. Or are...

So we're building a pkgsrc/homebrew for OGC? ;)

To get this right, this is about spreading the availability of the SRDs, I didn't miss anything about declaring that I publish under 1.0 possibly being beneficial in the future?

What if my "magic missile animation" looks like a bit of graph paper I drew an arrow on with a pen? And the sound effect is a recording of me goin "zzzzzzt"?

So there are separate rules for VTTs, what's the likely route for other software? Character generators, random treasure tools etc.?

But I can do it with OGL 1.0a, and I'm seeing the CC as the closer replacement for that than the OGL 1.2.

I'm fully expecting to avoid most of this, but I look forward to someone making both spell and monster sections that are CC and avoid stepping too close to the previous/OGL'd ones. Maybe Monte Cook can CC his Arcana Unearthed as a first step ;)

I'd say a few hundred pages are a bit more than just examples, but yeah, you're right, technically.

Do I see that correctly, all the sections regarding monsters and spells are out of the CC'd part of the SRD? That will make CC-only gaming (or 'cloning) quite hard to do.

I don't quite understand on what basis creating distinct 3E elements from a 5E basis would be more solid than the usual "game mechanics can't be copyrighted". If I make a "Power Attack" feat that isn't in 5E, with the 3.5E mechanics, can't they say that I'm using material from now deauthorized...

Well, as we're seeing, past decades are no predictor for the future.

So if the VTT rules disallow stuff that doesn't work at a real table, I guess that means torches and maybe dynamic lighting are out, too?