Recent content by Simplicity

Hit dice as a resource should not exist. The whole term is completely overloaded, and that makes it hard for people to understand or use. Call them "rest points". Call them "exertion". Don't name a resource hit (why?) dice (what?). In my dad characters had levels and monsters had hit dice.

The new license is changeable at any time, so it is however onerous as Hasbro wants it to be. No one should ever agree to a contract like that. I agree to whatever percentage you want, given 30 days notice...

Edited. I mean that's my point. They can't write anything now. They have to accept something that's existing.

Well, they've got a bit of a problem on their hands now. In Dancey and OGL's case, it was made clear through their actions and statements that they were genuinely interested in creating an open framework for working with third parties. They listed the problems they had in the past, the reasons...

I rechecked the license. It does say that you can declare PI. I was wrong about that.

My understanding is that in an undesignated stat block would be OGC. The name of it (Sniveling Snerksucker) would be PI. The textual descriptions of abilities might also be PI, but they could be rephrased to do the same thing in someone else's work. Same with a weapon. The Hammer of Kaboosh...

It's like open source all over again. Yeah, it's a somewhat viral license. That's how the open source community builds up material that is open source. Also I don't think you can declare stuff as PI. You can declare OGC to give things away. You can't declare PI to hold content back. Certain...

Yes but the fact that they have to say and anything you identify... Should be enough to indicate that there are things which you don't identify that still become OGC. (Pretty much everything but PI).

Anything not Product Identity and anything you specifically designate as OGC, IIRC.

That's not entirely accurate either. You can reproduce it if you have the copyright holder's permission. You get their permission by agreeing to the terms of the license. And this actually has enormous consequences for the rights towards your own material. You give up stuff by copying it...

That is not what it means at all. It protects who can copy the license and when. It prevents others from claiming copyright. WotC has the copyright of the license. And they have granted the right to duplicate the license when you are producing OGC.

Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous is by far the best D&D game to come out since the Infinity Engine (BG, Planescape, etc.). It goes to mythic levels, so your horse can have 40 armor class, crane kick, and deflect arrows. It's a blast. And I would full-throatedly support it, and did... And...

I mean if they Hasbro were mad about something, it probably wouldn't be Solasta, a game which they have some sort of arrangement with the team. It would be Pathfinder: Kingmaker and Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous, two games which blow Solasta out of the water quality-wise and success-wise...

I mean Wizards explicitly said that the SRD could be used for software. If the suits at Hasbro could be bothered to shamble down from their golden coin piles, they would realize that they could be licensing D&D videogames such that all the good ones weren't like 20 years old. I'm certain...

A group of seven Hasbro lawyers appear. They are neither tarrying nor running. One is a drummer. They each carry a briefcase of no particular color. They are expressionless as they don't make any statements. They don't authorize former OGC, they don't unauthorize former OGC. They are too...