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'Perfectly fine' it is not, but as with anything, it depends on your audience and how you use it. In DS it's pretty much baked into the part of the setting of the Evil city states, without those, there is imho very little left of DS. DS is an Evil setting in a different way that Ravenloft is an...

I really like Forgotten Realms because it has been so fleshed out, but still huge and allows you to do your own thing without much effort. Back in them olden days when Jim Butler's company scanned and sold all the D&D books for $2.99/book I bought pretty much everything and created a FR pdf...

I think Morrus/Umbran brought up good points why at this scale it is a good idea to have the ability of '+' threads. But I think there's an issue with the assumption that if asked for an 'argument' (as Umbran said), you don't have to participate. We're constantly accosted by the same argument...

You mean a single D&D board with 239,943 members? The original thread had 235 replies and 12k views, this one has 327 replies and 9k views... No matter how you view it, 14 petitioners is then a very small number of people that were bothered enough to sign it. I do think that there are more...

I do not think that this issue is 'caused' by modern copyright law. There's a restriction for sure and it would only wind up in the public domain in the US in 2083 (if nothing changes). But there's been fan created content for decades, even now with the OGL and DMs Guild, people still create fan...

Now I'm confused... On one hand it's important enough to do something about it even though it's a product about pretending to be elves. On the other hand it wouldn't be important enough to preserve because it's a product about pretending to be elves. Imho the importance here isn't in the...

For D&D it's been the case for over 20 years for older works (that don't have any copyright anymore) we have things like Project Gutenberg. The issue is with books that still have copyright, but are no longer available in print or digital is getting smaller and smaller. The issue is not...

I find the 'banning' (taken out of sale) or rewriting old documents a huge problem. That's bleaching the past imho. We might still know why it was rewritten, but in a generation or two people won't and that might be bad. Anywhere from repeating the past to denying the past. Leaving old...

That video wasn't linked in the first post or the linked product page. I agree that the video gave a far better visual indication of the size then the product page. That product info is what's being copied in webstores, the images with the dimensions is all the way to the bottom of the image...

People are 3D printing houses, so that's no indication of size. As for falsehood, there are smaller chests, just not the size of chest most of the HeroQuest/D&D crowd thinks about... So lifesize is accurate, but they are just messing with our expectations, as I suspect that most sales will...

Why relieved? I agree, that the 5E settings books are a huge disappointment when looking from a 2E or 3E perspective. But let's be honest, the 4E stuff was already not great, the 5E stuff being even further off and having been dunked into the Cauldron of Blandness isn't surprising in the least...

Monopoly might be making significantly more then D&D. Some other properties might also fall into that category, depending on how you count those properties... If you add license fees for D&D socks to the pile of revenue WotC makes, how would you treat a Star Wars IP? Let's say all the physical...

LMAO is the only response to this. It's meaningless and self-contradictory dime-store/cod philosophy, and that's the kindest thing I can say about it. ;) There's a difference between a legal construct and emotions, nowhere in the definition of corporate personhood does it assign emotions to a...

Some sources say that currently 25% of WotC revenue is from digital sales. If that holds true for Magic, only ~$250k of that $1B+ in Magic revenue is from Magic Arena (and a few other digital products). Hearthstone does something like $670k/year, so there is plenty of growth on the digital side...

And they were right, they can easily milk 'us'. And with 'us' I mean the consumer group that buys D&D products and services. Maybe not you and me specifically, but probably 95%+ of that customer base wouldn't be impacted, just a very loud minority. And yesterday people left D&D for reasons...

Can a company be selfish? Can a company be intense? Can a company desire? Maybe the people that work for, control and/or own the company, but not the company itself. I would say that how companies work are the direct consequence of the capitalistic and democratic system as currently implemented...

Ok, do you have a source for that? Naming it ORC might play great in the media, but it's a lousy search term in their forums! Experience. deadpan But it wasn't necessarily negative, I just stated some options on the whole range of options. The option that it was already out and absolutely...

No, I agree that the software is not comparable, but that is not the issue. It's the datasets that are used to simulate a particular system in the VTT. I've added non-OGL stuff to the old RTM (old management D&D management software) myself. And there are a TON of rules sets available in VTTs...

It's now been over a month since the original announcement of ORC: https://www.enworld.org/threads/paizo-announces-new-irrevocable-open-rpg-license-to-replace-the-ogl.694404/ So where is it? Still being worked on? Somewhere down the bottom of the to-do list? Or completely out the door now that...

That assumption is based upon the premise that the VTT users would only use official or properly licensed datasets for their VTT program of choice. Experience shows that this is not the case. A company called Lone Wolf Development has been creating the software called 'Army Builder' for ~25...