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It looking to be an incremental improvement over Bioware's Neverwinter Nights. And it will be as popular as that was i.e. it will have a following and a community but will rapidly become it own thing separate from the tabletop hobby.

There are many types of RPGs. If there is a point based on that fact, one that is relevant to this thread or that I have been talking about in regard to "rules as law, rules as guidelines" then make it. If you want to debate about what is or isn't an RPG and the different types there are out...

Where I am coming is that in my view what makes a RPG an RPG is the below. I describe to you a setting You (and others participating) describe to me what characters you want to play within that setting. I describe any additional information your character would know about the setting. I start...

My opinion that the general case is that you can't have rulings without a reference. You can make rulings without a system as long as you have a setting for the campaign. You even make rulings without resorting to the use of dice. The problem is in the logistics and skills required. To pull...

No you just doing what they did back in the early 70s when folks thought of something fun to play but due to the lack of published systems came up with the rules to make it happen. But they were not operating in a vacuum either. By the early 70s there was a bunch of well-known techniques and...

Sounds good to me. Not necessary, depending on the nature of what is being described a natural English description may be sufficient to cover any rulings that are needed. My view is that Treasure Tables are a terse description of what monsters are expected to have in the way of the treasure in...

My viewpoint is that asking Rules as Law versus Rules as Guidelines is the wrong distinction. For me, it is the setting of the campaign that dictates what players can and can't do as their character. If the rules conflict with how things are defined in the setting then it is the rules that must...

Harnworld in Hardback Kickstarter I have been a fan of Harn, both the setting and the Harnmaster rules, for a long time. Ever since I encountered the original Harn setting folio at Games Unlimited in Pittsburgh PA. Columbia Games just announced their latest Kickstarter, HarnWorld: Medieval...

Agreed. For one thing, it did an excellent job of handling tactical complexity in a straightforward manner.

The fact that the D&D 4e system design shared little in common with proceeding editions has nothing to do with whether it is a fun system on its own merits. I have a long history of outlining both the strengths and weaknesses of D&D 4th edition in an evenhanded manner. If you have a specific...

A couple of things set our situation apart There is nothing that Wizards can do that a single talented individual can't do in the time they have for a hobby. This is true now for comics books as well with the advent of digital technology and the internet for distribution. But.... Unlike comic...

There wasn't homogenization after the late 2000s. Since then has been a second golden age for RPGs. This is not a subjective opinion either, just looked at what being offered on DriveThruRPG. What did happen is a D&D related system remained the most popular system with the widest audience. But...

Agree to a point. Where it gets bad is for works like Tome of Horror which require individual citations for each monster entry you use in Section 15. 'Slight inconvenience is an understatement. The result leads to declarations like this. How luckily there are plenty of alternatives like...

For clarity. By using the OGL version of the SRD 5.1 you can say anything based on those rules as open content. Except for a few names in which case you include the CC Attribution and mention that they are PI separately licensed under CC-BY 4.0. This way for somebody who wants to deal just with...

The case was a muddled mess and that is being charitble The Wikipedia article should provide enough info to point you to where you can find the details in various legal databases https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO%E2%80%93Linux_disputes This statement by the Free Software Foundation was...

To be clear I advocate for an OGL 1.0b not because I think it is legally needed. I think it is needed socially to provide clarity to the hobby that yes OGL 1.0a open content remains available for use. And I do so knowing that even with a OGL 1.0b it use will go into decline in favor of CC and...

The only case I am aware of in the United States that is on point is SCO vs. IBM and that was about the GPL. SCO (or the previous company they bought the IP from) for a time offered Linux under the GPL along also contributed work to Linux. And this happened to incorporate the IP they were...

No the deauthorization of the OGL 1.0a meant one of two things. Either the works originated in part from the D20 SRD or 5.1 SRD. In which case the only way to continue to share or sell was to agree to a new much more onerous license. The work did not use the d20 SRD or 5.1 SRD in which case...

That is accurate. Which is also true. The misconception here is that my goals are concerned with the relative popularity of various tabletop roleplaying brands and systems. They are not. The creative independence I focus on applies to everybody including leading brand D&D and its owner...