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"1" is not an even number. They tried to evade the curse. But the gods knew the edition's truename...

At minimum the latter, but the former is also a distinct possibility. Here's how it would happen: In a world where (for example) Roll20 loses its "custom arrangement" with WotC, the WotC content (5e PHB, etc.) most likely just disappears. In that world, if OGL 1.0(a) stands, Roll20 can still...

You would certainly think so, after the company has torched its relationship with both of its fandoms in the span of mere months. On the other hand, they want massively more profit out of D&D. They’re not going to get it out of the people who are willing to leave them over this. They have a...

Surely those deals are term-limited—though I don’t think their expiration dates are public knowledge. And it’s evident the current WotC leadership intends not to renew them.

Yes and no. I can keep running 5e in person with the material I already have in person forever, no changes. But if WotC doesn’t change course, I highly doubt I’ll be able to run any edition of D&D on Roll20 or Fantasy Grounds once their current contracts with WotC expire.

I don’t think any of this is about D&D Beyond. Or rather, it might be, if they decide to call their new VTT “D&D Beyond.”

Eliminating third-party support for D&D was the goal. Or presumably so. Drafting this document because you actually want anyone to sign onto it would require an almost implausible level of detachment from reality. Having seen the leaked pages, I'm operating on the assumption that the...

Not at all—quitting is easy! It's staying alive afterward that's unusually hard in the USA. But yeah, when I took the survey just now I made sure to actually take the survey, just the same way I did the first two, and then to state at the top of the general feedback field that this part is not...

To me the LE part is producing a contract (1.0a) that appears to mean one thing (irrevocable), and then when people ask What does this part mean? (perpetual, any authorized version) you say Why, it means you can ignore any changes we want to make to it and use it as long as you wish, of course...

They knew it would cause an uproar and just want to get it all out of the way prior to 2024. But also, there’s no way they’re granting a one-year grace period on paying royalties out of soft-hearted largesse. At some point, some lawyer must have told them they would be in violation of this or...

Surely anyone who read (and found credible) the lawsuits filed in 2020 by Gale Force Nine and Weis & Hickman must already have concluded that WotC is perfectly willing to renege on contracts and licences in the most weasely imaginable ways if they think they might get away with it. The practices...

I think it might simply be a third grab-bag book along the lines of Xanathar’s and Tasha’s, only this time themed around an artifact rather than an NPC. That’s pretty much what it sounds like from the description, and it makes sense: there’s a very obvious and plausible story you can tell about...

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At the very end of the long video discussing the Expert playtest doc, Crawford told Kenreck that there would be more feats coming in the Warrior playtest doc, and that there would be exciting new ways to use weapons. Since he raised this topic at the very end of the video, I assume this was...

Yeah, it’s clearly not meant to be played over and over again—but that doesn’t mean it’s just an accessory to the RPG adventure. I think it’s likely to be an excellent game in its own right. Rob Daviau, codesigner of Warriors of Krynn, is a great designer and one of the most influential board...

Finder's Stone trilogy, Songs and Swords series, Brimstone Angels series, Erevis Cale series

I rewatched Jackson's LotR recently, and I saw nothing remotely as extreme as some of the scenes in episode 6 of RoP. I know more than one person who can handle Jackson's LotR but could not handle episode 6 of RoP. Perhaps it's a difference of degree, not of kind, but there is a real difference...

I agree that RoP is more serious about Tolkienian themes than Jackson was (though Jackson's filmmaking is superior, at least so far). But I would argue, for example, that the gore and horror in episode 6 of RoP is sensationalistic in a way that I find contrary to Tolkien's spirit. It's most...

I agree with all of this—except the word “completely”—and I believe JRRT would have as well. The “Tolkien Professor” has done a good job, I think, of reminding his listeners that JRRT himself, when giving notes on an adaptation far, far worse than this one, was more concerned with preserving the...

Per a recent story in Vanity Fair, this was in fact one of the multiple series that Netflix pitched when they, Amazon, and HBO were all competing for the rights. And the estate hated Netflix's ideas so much that they left tens of millions of dollars on the table to strike a deal instead with...