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I know you're making a joke here. But, I don't think OSRIC has sold in substantial numbers for a long time. There are lots of other retroclones/OSR things that are better at most things. But all of those couldn't exist without OSRIC having been created first. It's utility lies in everything it...

I like terrible games and snark so I enjoy System Mastery.

That doesn't matter. You don't need to engage with the GSL at all. The GSL is there for you if you wish to make a game that is an explicit expansion or derivative of 4E. What I'm saying is, you can make an iteration of 3E with the OGL using the SRD and OGC that happens to play just like 4E...

You can't copyright game mechanics. You can write a "whole new game" derived from the SRD and various other Open Game Content materials that happens to play exactly like 4E. You can cut out the GSL altogether. OSRIC did that to clone a version backwards in time, you can do that same thing going...

I mean, you didn't even have to switch, really. By the time Dark Sun and Planescape came out alot of that was effectively not a thing anymore. Sure, you didn't have an Assassin class, but you could just as easily use the 1E one.

This one always struck me as odd too. Like, it's basically just a cleaned up 1E it's more like 1E than BECMI is and that was always part of the group. I did hear alot of derision about the whole Jim Ward led sanitization of the game though, so maybe that was a bigger part?

What about Tauqeer, doesn't he need work?

I don't really think this thread is the place to dive into this. But suffice to say, I think there is alot of "noise". Imagine being new to to the hobby and wanting a short D&D adventure so you pop into the DM's Guild, where do you start? How do you know what's any good? And that's limiting it...

Having accessible self-publishing is both the best and worst thing about the hobby simultaneously.

You can. You would just literally have to restate everything in your own language in those core books and publish it under the OGL. Nothing like that exists. Probably because it's a ton of work. ORCUS comes closest and even that isn't all that close to being a true 4E retroclone in the vein...

Okay. Me, once we hit the "courage of your convictions" part of the argument about elf game sales:

Pretty sure I didn't do that.

Yeah, it certainly seems plausible that PF won via only the metrics ICV2 looks at and in the total aggregate picture 4E was still tops. That all being said, this reminds me of the old Norm Macdonald joke about Germany fighting the world twice "But this time, it was really close". Like, the...

aaannndddd that channel is full of AI art. Very fitting.

Well, that backfired spectacularly didn't it?

This is where I fall. I know I'm in the minority, on this board anyway, about that. But, a 50% revenue split and a perpetual license are a pretty extortionate set of terms when you are, in essence, taking on the work and expense of doing their product support work for them. They certainly...

Pretty much a perfect encapsulation of why it's the best. Unifying everything to percentages and getting rid of the resistance table are things they needed to do for decades especially.

Everyone's favorite edgy boi Raggi is over a decade late on the LotFP Referee book.