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Monte cook games is still doing this with their OGL 5e products, claiming literally everything inside as "Product Identity".

But SD is a derivative game, built on both the 5E SRD and various OSR games/TSR era games. When you do that, you are using Open Gaming...

This isn't granting anything you couldn't just do already. You don't need a license to use game mechanics that you've rewritten with...

The main system is also proprietary, largely. The Shadowdark license is pretty restrictive when it comes to what you're allowed to...

I don't think its possible to have a perfectly neutral game session in which a player never takes an action or asks a question which...

Did you think of all of the physical details of every trap? Every creature? Every hazard? Every room? At some point the game will...

Ohhhh, I have absolutely seen this at the game table. I've seen people trying to use cloaks as makeshift parachutes, metal chain...

It's rarely so cut and dry as your example. Players tend to do strange, and often ingenious, things - you can never eliminate...

Yeah, another great blog post. "How to tell if someone is lying?" Player: Well, I've seen this work all the time in movies and tv...

The best way to avoid arguments in an RPG is to settle on the genre expectations you want to stick with. The best way to ensure that...

Yeah. Rules aren't there because imagination fails. Rules are there to relieve us of the need to negotiate every single freakin' thing...

This is exactly it. I see people ignoring this fact constantly when talking about Classic D&D - It was designed for and often played...

Hard agree with this. I just use the "Fatality Mode" to get around this problem, but yeah - having a living character who cannot act...