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Why is the default assumption that orcs are being cast in the role of indigenous peoples and humans are colonizers? That seems to be relying on flawed tropes from outdated adventure modules. I would think indigenous Humanoids should be cast in the role of indigenous peoples and colonizing...

Unicorns are friends of the asexual community and believe women who choose not to engage in sexuality should be lauded for being true to themselves, not shamed for refusing to bow to societal norms?

Has anyone with more industry knowledge than myself compiled a list of publishers that are using other creators' Open Content without contributing any of their own? (Paizo's not guilty of this, but some other publishers mentioned in this thread might be.) I would love to have that information so...

Wow. Just wow. Does that book draw upon any OGL content other than the 5e SRD? If it's just building on the 5e SRD and nothing else, I guess it's not all that bad. WotC released the 5e SRD under a non-share-alike Creative Commons license earlier this year, so anyone can use it to create closed...

This site's profanity guidelines don't allow me to properly express how much I dislike index entries that say "See X" but don't list a page number. Especially when "X" is just an entry with one page number. Seriously, it takes less ink to just print the page number instead of "See X," so why are...

When I'm running a game, I only use bits and pieces of canon provided in published sources. The game I'm running has its own internal canon only tangentially related to the works that inspired it. I often borrow maps and rough descriptions of locations on those maps, for example, but I might...

When you put it that way, I think we're agreement. Each time a setting gets reintroduced for a new audience (or new edition, as the case may be), the setting is going to be framed differently than it was before.

I would say each Star Wars TTRPG was a different presentation of the same setting. Ditto with 1e/2e/3e/5e FR*. In each case, the official setting is intended to be part of the same continuity. I haven't read Adventures in the Multiverse yet, so I don't know if that same logic applies to 2e vs...

Counterpoint: There are three different Star Wars TTRPGs, and they all take place in the same setting.

I've never really followed Greyhawk, but based on your description, it sounds like a perfect framework for creating a diverse setting written by a diverse group of authors. The way you describe it, it sounds like Gygax created a world with both European and non-European influences, then left all...

I'm pretty sure it's a matter of product branding, not a matter of pride. The suits don't want creativity and innovation interfering with their marketing objectives.

I'm surprised you're the first person to mention inflation. I know I can't afford as many books as I'd like these days.

While doing research for a project I'm working on, I discovered every deity in the Mulhorandi pantheon has both an Egyptian name and one or more "Theros-ized" (a.k.a. invented) names. So they literally could just drop the Egyptian names and still exist, as written, no retcon required. (Although...

Since one of the stated goals of the 2024 DMG is to teach new DMs how to run the game, I would say, yes, designers really should spend time and page count on a few examples of both gamist and simulationist approaches to the same problem.

I really hope the designers find enough room in the DMG to include both an expanded version of the (gold-based) Stronghold rules from the 2014 DMG and an expanded version of the (abstract-currency) Bastion rules from UA. Then tables could pick whichever of the two rules modules works best for...

I think even the weeds got left behind at least 10 pages ago.

Those would be great names for the as-yet-unreleased Franchise rules. I can't wait to add 5th-level Musso and Frank branding to the Franchise Location I've been building in the background for four levels now. But if we're going to pretend we can only use proper nouns because no other...

I'm saying a credit card company shouldn't be allowed to trademark "Credit Card" as the name of their credit card with rewards. Their credit card with rewards should have a distinctive name that isn't just "Credit Card" (though it could certainly include the words "credit card" as part of its...

Of course my reaction to what I read is on me. Every reader's reaction to what they read is on them. I'm intentionally using rules terminology copied-and-pasted from the UA, verbatim, to demonstrate how misleading that terminology is when used in a sentence. The fact that we're ten pages into...

You beat me to the punch while I was typing my last message. Yes. Renaming the special facilities is all it would take to address the concerns I was raising in the OP.