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Yeah. And all you have to do to really drive the point home is look at the transition to 4E and the emergence of Pathfinder. All the networking benefits WotC drew from having the OGL were displaced to another company because WotC shot themselves in the foot by abandoning an open license. So all...

True Detective, season 1 is fantastic and brutally dark. Broadchurch, UK version with Coleman, Whittaker, and Tennant. Presumed Innocent. How to Get Away with Murder. Castle, for a bit more comedy, it has a few real mystery writers show up later on. Bodies, for some sci-fi mystery. Fargo...

Yes, 20+ years later he says that. At the time it was purely a business move and he repeatedly said so and said it’s how he convinced management to go along.

Exactly. The CC SRDs exist to make WotC money same as the OGL SRDs before them. The more widely the systems are used the more people are pointed back to WotC products. This is literally why the OGL was created. It was never an act of largess, it was always commercial. D&D has been so dominant...

Also relevant to gaming. Looking at you D&D SRD 5.2 PDF with janky text.

I meant the audience Q&A part. It was unclear in my post. I can listen to pros talk, that's great.

I don’t run campaigns like that. I run open-world sandboxes. Where the players are free to go and do whatever. Introducing the Deck wouldn’t ruin anything because the players making choices is the point. There’s nothing for them to wreck by drawing a card. The game isn’t about my prep, it’s...

But it's not though. It's a high chaos item, sure. But that only destroys campaigns that have a predetermined plot that needs protecting from chaos. The Deck is the single most fun and interesting item ever created for D&D. You were in a faux-medieval setting and suddenly you're surfing a wave...

I used to think that same way but I've come around on it. The mundane is the players' real lives. That's where the contrast is. It's not compare-contrast between two fictional elements, one mundane the other fantastical. You'll always get a wow when it's something new and wild to the player...

Not related to the above. It's always so disappointing to see people you admire talk up people you despise. It never results in thinking better of the person you despise. But it always results in thinking worse of the person you admire.

Good panel. Were there any good questions and answers? I turned it off after the first rambling audience question.

The weirder the better. Realistic or mundane settings are boring. This reminds me of the gonzo thread awhile back and it’s basically the same answer here. Eberron, Mystara, Hollow World, Dark Sun, Spelljammer, Planescape, Sword World, Mushoku Tensei, DCC RPG, MCC RPG, XCC RPG, Gamma World...

Not related to the sudden turn of this thread. You missed the point entirely. I can only assume it’s intentional at this point. Looking forward to a bit of schadenfreude later.

There's a vast gulf between the word "feywild" and all the associated lore attached to that word. The word is in the CC-BY SRD. The lore is not. People confusing the word for the lore are going to create a lot of problems for themselves and others.

For some reason group checks were removed from the 5.2 SRD. Were they also removed from the new PHB?

And the winner of best addition to the SRD goes to the first section, Rhythm of Play. Given that exact cycle is the fundamental basis of all RPGs it's nice to have one of the better encapsulations available in the CC.

They can use the name "Strahd" and whatever bits of lore are specifically included in the actual SRD, but using any IP not specifically included in the SRD is going to get you a visit from the Pinkertons and a gaggle of lawyers. All that lore you have in your head about Strahd was not released...

Bots aren't that persistent. Man, just let it go.

It can. Depends on the joke and the audience. A whole lot of people are actively hunting to be offended. Weirdly you tend to find what you’re looking for in that regard. Yet another problem caused by social media.

It’s the only way some people are capable of communicating. The internet, especially social media, is partly to blame. But it’s clear a lot of people took kindness-compassion as their dump stat. Apparently a lot of people think kindness-compassion is a weakness rather than a strength.