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I played for a long time with Roll20, free version, as I preferred to reveal whole blocks instead of seeing those aesthetically unpleasing blobs of light and shadow. (And that tier didn't even get you scripting access) But when I bought Foundry, I played around a bit with it, as it was pretty...

I'm just waiting for someone to either release a dedicated skeuomorphic VTT or just enough graphical assets to do that with existing ones. Just like something that goes all out for pixel art and JRPG-ish aesthehtics (no, not talking about Shmeppy).

My statement or theirs? I got it from here: "(36) The "First Aid" skill in MYTHUS (pages 28 and 165) is derived from the AD&D "Cure Light Wounds" spell in the AD&D 1st ed. PHB (page 43) and the AD&D OA (page 57)." Yeah, they didn't want a Gygaxian rival game, but the methods they used weren't...

Didn't Gygax get sued because Dangerous Journeys "copied" D&D basically literally, like, having a First Aid skill, clearly based on the Cure Light Wounds spell? /s

There's also the semi-recent Tides of Numenera video game. Not many games these days (or any days, TBH) that have a tabletop equivalent.

Hmm, I don't know where this falls between "imprint" and "brand", but dungeons themselves seem something where the game was hugely influential.

I remember the big 3.x stat block switch up, and the confusion it created. In user interfaces, "expected" is usually the best you can go for . But yeah, for 5E deviation isn't that important, not that many stats. For PF1, I would hurt badly if I couldn't use the default version. Noted. It's...

What I'm wondering is where things like stat blocks are in this spectrum. They collect rules terms, but in a rather specific manner. And being able to print NPC and monster stats exactly like people expect them is a huge benefit.

I guess they're valuing their legal options themselves. Even just a "coat of paint" massive errata variant where you change "dexterity" to "agility" and "magic missile" to "arcane barrage" could be obnoxious and lose them customers.

Orcus just had a significant release. Dangit: double-ninja'd

I see Chaosium is on board. Anyone seen their own "BRP" license? Which includes conditions like "Don't come up with anything that's close to RQ Sorcery/CoC Sanity/Pendragon Glory." Either they changed their mind and are willing to forego such undefined areas for the sake of being part of the...

Or anything recognizable as a RPG. I mean, I could mesh GURPS with AD&D 1E, how far would you have to go from the mainstream to be that incompatible? Do I have to roll SAN checks?

I can't tell you enough how this Fellow Kids phrasing is annoying me right now.

1976. Didn't take that long.

Is that so? The license talks about "Licensed Material", where does it say that this has to extend to the full "product"? I guess there are some formalities about the language that you have to apply to except or include material in your game, but it's not like PI/OGC declarations were always...

I wonder whether this will grow a bit beyond what it replaces, i.e. whether some companies a) held back open licensing because of the WotC ownership and/or b) notice that people actually like that a lot more than they thought. (Come one, RTalsorian, Fuzion ORC!)

Well, the license seems open enough, but does have some moral codes that I wouldn't like to see in a less system-/IP-specific version. But it seems okay enough. On the lightness of Cypher: It's a rather different type of game. So I'd say it would depend on the group whether it's easier to...

"ChatGPT please rewrite this license so that everyone likes us again"

No need to be so nasty to all those lawyers trying to help us here.