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There were some significant typos (clearly copy-and-paste errors) in the Hill Giant that I corrected last night when I reedited the document. Searching ... Yep, the top half of the block is still a clusterf. Fixing now. Give me a few minutes. Thanks for the catch!

Very good, Celtavian. :) But don't expect it to impress anyone here. You're just going to be arguing in circles.

No, it'd be a loser, which is why they won't sue. And there are enough people at WotC that know me that the attorneys there will be told not to screw with me. I could explain this, but every time I try to explain copyright law on ENWorld, the cognitive dissonance kicks in, and people refuse to...

Thanks for your comments. In answer to your first question, my experience has been that DMs simply cast the spells they know, which means every spell that's cast is sleep, fireball, or hold person. This greatly reduces the versatility, and therefore challenge, of the monster in question. As for...

Added appendix showing all changes I made to stat blocks. Added a table of contents. Corrected several typographical errors due to copy-and-paste errors, including (among other things) missing powers, extraneous powers, and incorrect to-hit and damage expressions.

Thanks for the comment. My personal opinion, FWIW, is that 5e is a fantastic system -- AD&D cleaned up by decades of gaming evolution -- but at points, poorly implemented. Still, it's a fun system and worth a look to every gamer.

I really should add a table of contents and page numbers, huh? :)

??? That's the first sentence of a paragraph. You apparently stopped reading after that sentence. Your question is answered by everything that followed, but here it is: That being said, there are actually only a couple of stat blocks where I did that. In addition to the Azer, I gave the Cloud...

I appreciate your position, but you have to realize a couple of things. 1) This project took months. 2) I have no desire to hurt WotC. 1. This was a long project, and I have others in mind that are a higher priority for me. I'm quite disillusioned with 5e, and especially with the direction that...

15 years of practice, which includes copyright law. If they send a C&D, I'll just give them my address for service of process. But they won't do that.

I've modified the 5th edition D&D stat blocks so that a DM doesn't have to have so many hard-cover books open at once. As with 4th edition stat blocks, everything you need to run a creature is at your fingertips. Of course, this results in stat blocks that, in extreme cases, are 4 pages long...

The OGL doesn't license IP. By it's own terms it says it doesn't. Without saying so expressly, it licenses game rules over which WotC doesn't have the legal right to control. The OGL is not why people aren't getting sued; it's because WotC is in no legal position to stop what's been done under...

And good on you for it. I don't doubt there are plenty of great projects and honorable creators out there. I don't regret for one second my backing of Jeff's art (though again, art is different than gaming products).

That's a good characterization of what I said with only one caveat. The involvement of "established" companies isn't necessarily "taking advantage" of the system. A big company doing so would be "taking advantage" not only of the system, but of the poor saps who have loyalty to those companies...

It can do whatever it wants; this isn't a question of legality. The question is whether that muddies the water so that you can no longer even find the meritorious projects. Moreover, in the case of a big organization, it's somewhat unethical, though not illegal. I'm not going to (seriously)...

Re: Kickstarter = the Ladders Thanks for responding, ahayford. Wouldn't be the first time. Now this concerns me. I thought the purpose was to support creators that could not afford their initial start up fees. Established companies can afford launching projects (easily or otherwise), and...

Kickstarter = the Ladders I'm sorry if I'm rehashing arguments -- I haven't read the entire thread -- but I've been contemplating a blog entry on this for some time now. I got blasted for suggesting that Kickstarter is, or will soon become, like this commercial for "the Ladders" job hunting...

Overall, I don't read most of the articles per issue, but I never expect to want to do that. They're not catering to me as an individual. They're dealing with a large, diverse market, some of which is being well-served by 3PPs (free and fee-based). Your point on demon lord articles really hits...

WotC has done a lot with the character builder, and there is a ton of varied content presented in Dungeon and Dragon magazines, appealing to all sorts of interests among the 4e players. These are important pieces of the DDI, so making such a sweeping statement of neglect on the part of WotC is...