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Turns out it was not the first time the Mind Flayer device was mentioned. It was mentioned by Kara Dune in Chapter 8: Redemption. Then there is the tentacled, brain-bending, Mairan. One named Bor Gullet appeared in the film Rogue One. Another showed up in the comic Doctor Aphra #21. In the...

Doubt it. Part of the reason Dave Arneson left was that he would not sign an employee agreement that purportedly included an onerous work-for-hire clause. Kask would have been asked to sign the contract, no?

The irony here is that in the Kyle Brink interviews (at least the one with Three Black Halflings) there was some hint or mention that Disney could be one of the large corporate threats to D&D IP.

Usually, it is about outreach to grow a pipeline of women, and training interviewers to avoid bias. Then it takes time. The stats show the average employee stays 3.8 years, so turnover how and not being asshats when hiring is how you get there.

Here is the deal, eliminating controversial content is performative in many ways. Does it actually help end systemic racism or help people? Actual harmful content, yes, remove it. If this data is correct, WotC might want to deal with the astounding lack of diversity in the company: 28% of...

Short version, every 5e player is a potential future grognard.

I tried to telegraph don't.

They seem confused. They asked when I last bought 5e products, over a year ago. Then ask where I purchased official D&D products, Drivethrurpg recently no less. Then ask why I have not purchased any D&D products in the last year—I did, just not 5e products.

The 5e core books? Where?

That is not the reason given by WotC, it is that the audience is more diverse, thus greater care is needed.

Is D&D really marketed at the 12/13+ year old kids market today? This is not the early 1980s.

If every book—and RPG—is about utopia, the genre will get old very quickly. It also ignores thousands of years of human storytelling, which includes warnings weaved in, even subtle ones about the negative side of human nature. Some of what is now seen as problematic are warnings of what not to do.

It is more than a remix or greatest hits, it is taking all the best parts of the OSR (or more so the NuSR) and pulling them together into a complete and cohesive game. I think the next edition of Cairn is aiming for something similar, so looking forward to another take on this.

Using the definition of someone who plays an older edition of a game, the meaning for grognard. Every 5e player is a grognard waiting to happen, or at least has the potential to become the next generation of grognard. And you know what, that is OK, people should embrace the games they like...

Can you point to a source from Creative Commons on how to mix licenses or how to release part of a book (print or PDF), but not all of it? Calling something harmful without actually addressing the concern is not helpful.

This, this is might be why. The OGL is spacial in the world of open licenses in that it allows the creator to split content into "open content" and closed content ("product identity" in OGL speak). CC-BY does not do this. Remember how everyone was upset with WotC adding language to 1.1 that...

The OGL 1.0a is out of their control. They can't actually revoke it, it is not for WotC or D&D products only. It was always meant for other systems and has been used as such. They own the copyright to the words of it, and they released it for all to use right in the document.

On this, we agree. Although, I am not so sure it was above, as much as lateral, that is the business and licensing people rather than the creative people. I even doubt Chris Cao had any say in the matter, much like Chris talked about crushing DnDB, then was caught off guard when WotC bought it...

Mixing open licenses might not be a great idea. Will have to wait to see what IP lawyers say about that. In the original OGL FAQ mixing open licenses was warned against.

The OGL 1.0a and CC are different beasts, they are not the same. When the 3.5 SRD is released under CC, you will be able to publish content based on this SRD, but not all do the content that was released by 3rd parties into OGC over the last 20+ years. That is a problem.