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See the original news item. Per the Bledshaws 2022.

Provided this is accurate, it means that when the Caverns of Thracia was being funded, JG was already remitting money to the Bledshaws while those of us who backed it believed that any royalties would be going to charity. Depending on when in 2022 he decided to give the donations, it's possible...

You're going to see a marked decrease in the number of writers publishing if we're not compensated. And what you get isn't going to be very good without editors.

This is not something I am experiencing. What model? I have the last Oasis.

Ah, but it doesn't matter. It still comes in the new format and can't be converted easily. Effectively, they took away the authors ability to sell drm-free books.

Transferring it to your PC was never meant to be a backup. It was so you could then transfer the book to your own kindle and was a relic from the early years of Kindle when wifi was not ubiquitous as it is today. (The same reason early kindles all had cellular built in.) The downloaded copy had...

They have not clarified and IMHO some of their statements have been written in a manner that sort of kind of implies they had a contract but thus far, all of these statements have very carefully not stated directly that there was any contract or obligation. And while many many people have asked...

It's not the art or the artist. That's a distraction. It's about money flowing to the confirmed nazi.

Nope, Knights And Berserkers And Legerdemain. A game with absolutely nothing to recommend it that's been out of print for 40 years. I am not sure if that or the two Islandia scenarios by The Companions are the rarest things I own.

And this thought has left me pondering when the last game of KABAL was played.

Of such questions are holy wars fought. Some think OSR is only d20 clones. Others would include Mork or Dragonbane. Despite being D20 some would exclude DCC or Shadowdark. The term NSR seems to have been coined partially to defuse the question for OSR adjacent.

I'm thinking particularly of the infamous Sorcerer's Scroll in Dragon 16, reprinted in I think it's the 2nd Best of anthologies. It's just a nasty piece of work that can best be summarized by "these peasants do not understand my genius."

If not the first, Runequest was certainly the first highly popular game to be entirely based around a pure skill system--Traveller is semi-skill based if I remember. And Cthulhu would be the first highly popular game to introduce pure investigation as the major form of gameplay. I believe...

Also, Mr. Gygax was not really a fan of the creativity of the community's creativity. He begrudgingly accepted non-humans, but he got downright vicious about the concept of a critical hit or non-Vancian magic (ie, spell points) and quite nasty to the people experimenting with them.

I can. It was my character in a con game at Origins 82. I was dropped into a room and there was a round object on the ceiling. It was obviously the way out. I said I tried to move it. Left right. They say it won't budge. Push, pull? It won't move. It really won't move left or right? No. Dead...

And no deminimis exclusion.

They keep implying that the project started before the Bledshaws were revealed to be virulent racists in 2020. But they never actually say so. And, at that time, they said that the Jaquays properties were the last things they would be working on with Judge's Guild. If there was a contract...

FWIW on Facebook, Aaron Bledshaw claims that they aren't getting money from Frog God nor are they getting accurate accounting of sales. Given how truthful I've found the Bledshaws to be over the last decade, I thought it prudent to send that to Frog God and let them know.

Speaking for myself, one of the reasons I gravitated towards DCC is that it didn't have the same noxious vibe as a lot of the OSR and I think that was a significant part of their brand. Was. Past tense.

As an alternative in need of a definitive edition, I would nominate the City Books from Flying Buffalo. They did Grimtooths, so that would be an obvious option. They're not as well know in nostalgic circles, but they're probably ten times as useful at the table because very few of us would...