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After having read the Patreon-preview (work-in-progress) of the split Kindred and Classes, I'm on board. Everything makes sense, nothing is too crazy as there's sensible restrictions in place for certain combinations. Humans and Breggle (goatfolk) are pretty much interchangeable as they should...

The "classic 4" will, afaik, get a few tweaks. They've always been present in the setting, along with the setting-specific friar, hunter, minstrel, and knight. But since we now get race/class split, I wonder if the nonhumans (elf, grimalkin, goatfolk, moss-dwarf, and woodgrue) will have any...

Yeah, the delay sucks, of course. But as you said, a setting as detailed as DW deserves no compromise when it comes to rules as applied to setting-specific stuff.

Exactly. I reckon Dolmenwood will end up being as close/far removed from BX as (Astonishing Swordsmen and Sorcerers of) Hyperborea is from AD&D 1E. Meaning: quite close, but with any changes made to rules done so in order to better support the setting. Excising the OGL is a nice catalyst for...

I'm optimistic. I'm sure he won't veer too far away from OSE standards, but also the things that will get changed will probably be for the better. There were a few things in the old "Wormskin" zines that got dropped, and whenever I asked about them on Discord, Gavin's answer was along the lines...

That's the crux of the matter. Some of us are not in the market for 5E. Not from HasBeen, nor from anyone else. But that's fine. I'll let those who are interested help shape the game.

Yeah, please don't lump me in with the likes of them.

I can absolutely see that pov, but the end-result is still that someone is being discriminated against. Wouldn't it be better to tackle that problem at the root by ensuring a fairer distribution of socioeconomic power and education first?

No, it's not. Though "positive discrimination" is still discrimination. I think whenever there's an open position it should go to the most qualified person. Race, sex, or gender should not factor into the equation. If the most qualified person happens to not be a middle-aged white cishet male...

In that case he should put his money where his mouth is.

I've come to terms with that fact. When I want to play without magitech I'm not playing D&D and certainly not 5E.

Fireball always filling 33k cubic feet, including blowback dangerous to the party, and destroying all loot.

Yes, I wasn't even trying to have English speakers make a glottal r

Especially since "regularly throwing away campaign notes and worldbuilding stuff" is not something I expect any DM, let alone MC to do. Like, AT ALL!

As someone who's been speaking French since the age of 7 and who's married to a French woman, the correct pronounciation (for an English speaker trying to sound correct) would be something like "groin-yard" (without the -d in yard, and with the stress on the second syllable)

I wrote that their planned conduct was cultural vandalism at best, and criminal at worst.

As someone very much embedded in the OSR scene, this is my POV: Large parts of the OSR scene need access to old SRDs (d20 , 3E) because that is what was initially used to reverse-engineer the retro-clones released under 1.0(a) Large parts of the OSR made generous use of sub-licensing, meaning...

I, for one, am fighting for the OSR. The OSR, and many indie game publishers absolutely rely on the ability to use (and continue to use!) the d20/3E SRD and that is linked to 1.0a and SPECIFICALLY not usable anymore under 1.2 There's a large number of small indie publishers that produce content...

No, because Monte Cook has his tweets protected. You should be able to google a screencap with his name attached though. Ben Milton of Questing Beast has shared it on yotube too.

That is absolutely not true. That might have been the case up until 5 years ago or so, but today, "the OSR" has become such a vast field, there's both DMs AND players that weren't even born when WotC bought TSR, and yet they still enjoy "old and dated mechanics". OSR is like vinyl: some people...