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So I'm much happier with WotC today than I've been in a fortnight or so. In part because I no longer need them, and am no longer trapped in a somewhat unhealthy relationship with them. They've set unambiguously free the necessary pieces for a thousand people to make clones or other games that...

This is the better version of the post I made on the other thread (and for all I know several other people, I couldn't keep up with it while also parsing the SRD). Well done.

A fair point. But I am talking about the names of things. The point is that many of the names are not something WotC can own. This is closer to case about copying all the chapter headings of a novel rather than the text. That said something like using literally the same 12 base classes, while...

Indeed. I don't think WotC is setting out to screw creators with the "sole discretion to decide what is bigotry" thing. But, if a Twitter mob is out for the blood of someone whose product inelegantly tried to deal with a sensitive topic, will WotC deliver that blood? Or if some future million...

Oh yes. To clarify, everyone wanting to make a 5e clone does not have to avoid having a race named "Elf" a class named "Wizard", a monster named "Zombie", or a spell named "Invisibility". They just have to be distinct from WotC's versions.

Oh most definitely. I just found it telling that the given examples were things they would probably win on in court but had slightly dubious claim to.

So to clarify to those who don't want to parse the SRD themselves the page designations that are being made Creative Commons cover in the main part: leveling and multiclassing; the basic action economy; abilities, skills, advantage/disadvantage, etc.; basic 5e Armor weapons and equipment; the...

I mean, depending on what they mean by the core content exactly, callooh callay oh frabjous day! But, shedding some darkness on that upbeat point, I would say that the particular examples of "Magic Missile" and "Owlbear" as things that belong to them are a little problematic. Owlbear is a...

Alright, I've put the unwieldy task of making any solid predictions aside and will take up a different part of this, it seems increasingly unlikely "what if": what it says about the process. If WotC ignore the survey feedback that would be bad... but it wouldn't be the worst thing...

Not actually what I said, if you can still hear me from up on that lofty soapbox. Really all I'm saying is that even though Nero probably didn't actually fiddle while Rome burned, I neither feel sorry for him nor lament the regime change. And that's it, I'm very done with this. If eight more...

Actually I am trying to justify why I don't care about this particular lie being spread, which ultimately, once again, is that WotC, as an organization run by fools, brought it upon themself. They dug their lying grave and they're going to get buried in lies, and while I have no interest in...

Also that's actually not as unforseeable as someone might think, if they failed to appreciate the high degree of overlap between someone being a youtuber in the D&D space and someone having a 3rd party D&D product.

It's not an unrelated controversy, it's a separate controversy related to the general ire caused by an inciting incident that only happened a few days ago and was squarely the fault of management. Yes, I personally would remain angry with management in that sort of scenario, especially since...

Under these circumstances I would mostly just remain angry at the chuckleheads at the top, who have brought this all down upon me and my coworkers.

Yeah. To clarify, I'm not encouraging people to believe nonsense. I just believe the resulting chaos may not be the worst thing in this instance, and have no pity for the target of the nonsense.

While it's fairly certain all the accusations are not true, the untrue parts are just a side-show in a public reckoning that is richly deserved. All the ire, both founded and unfounded in real facts, is something WotC has brought upon themselves, through arrogant hubris, compounded by foolish...

That doesn't mean nobody has tried! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Lovecraft_and_the_Frozen_Kingdom And it was a trilogy no less. But given the reception of those movies, it can't really been called a success. I think your point still stands.

I don't buy that the executives behind the OGL catastrophe have any strong opinions on the rule set or any other part of the actual product. I think they're boundless irrational confidence is all with the brand. I think they believe they could slap an ampersand logo on anything and it would turn...

Do what you like with the survey, but honestly I think the survey is just another compounding mistake on WotC's part, because it commits them to a window of not taking firm action when they really need to take a firm stance and lock down the situation, and needed to a week or two ago. If they...

I'm sure there will be movie tie-in products that I actually have to restrain myself from buying and have some sort of internal boycott-related debate about, but funko pops I just don't understand the appeal of. I mean yes, I understand why one funko-fied character, alone, is potentially a cute...