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Ironically, the guy with the Patrick Bateman avatar is trying to gaslight me into looking like the cynical and unsympathetic one. Can't we just assume we're dealing with reasonable people and not assume the people who disagree with us must feel that way because they don't care about others...

The ones that were doing it well will adapt. Nobody ever needed the OGL to publish gaming content, the OGL just made it easier to do so without needing careful scrutiny by the lawyers. It's sad that WotC is taking away the safe harbour, but the companies that don't want to deal with the 20%...

Hillarious to me are the people who are abandoning D&D to play a game that only exists because of the OGL license. Whether you CHOOSE not to purchase new D&D books, or CAN'T purchase new Pathfinder/DCC/OSE books, you're gonna be reliant on your ingenuity to expand the game.

I literally don't care about the new OGL.

In my uninformed opinion, "acceptable" would be if Hasbro made developers choose to either stick with 1.0 OR sign the documents to opt in to using 1.1 exclusively, along with incentives to actually make choosing 1.1 worthwhile.

For real. “I don’t like the OGL so nobody should be able to have D&D” is a terrible take.

My understanding after a quick read is that Fate publishes under the OGL only as a way of allowing other publishers to create third party supporting products for Fate. Fate itself doesn't need the OGL, and doesn't derive anything from D&D or any SRD. If the OGL stopped working the way wanted...

Fate in no way resembles any edition of D&D. You roll six-sided dice with + and - signs on them, and you're totally a net positive or net negative result.

The OGL was intended as a safe harbour. You can put out games that use those mechanics, and you don't have to make any effort whatsoever to prove that you arrived at the idea independently, because the license stipulates that it's totally ok to just borrow the idea anyway. It is a worry for...

If D&D really has the mainstream exposure and interest we think it does, then nothing that communities like this can do will stop Hasbro. For every one person on enworld ready to boycott D&D over OGL worries, there are probably 100 people who are interested in D&D cause of Stranger Things, or...

Your suggestion that Voyager and Enterprise are "classic" Trek has made me feel old.

Hard to say since we see so few non-human Vulcans in classic Star Trek.

They should have gone full circle toward race-as-class and called species "Secondary class".

Dynamics is more than just accounting software. I've dealt briefly with a Dynamics CRM installation. Knowing how that system works, having an executive who oversaw it would probably be hugely important to WotC VTT and digital initiatives. Edit: My own thoughts in that brief time I worked with...

It’s roughly the same class groups from 2nd Edition. Rogue has been renamed Expert, and Ranger has moved out of Warrior.

Going over elusive shift, and having not really looked at any of his post-TSR work, i'm skeptical that his own products would have really competed with D&D for the same customers (or even that the gaming market in the late 80s to 90s even wanted what he would have sold). The market seemed to...

I think she was worried about his name recognition still having value in the industry. A Gygax RPG would have attracted customers on his name alone. I don't think she cared about, or even that she believed in, his ability to create a good product. She just didn't want his name on a competing...

“ran it straight into the ground” isn’t really a fair characterization. She averted a potential financial disaster when she took over, and kept the lights on for longer than Gygax and the Blumes did. It’s fair to say Riggs is erring against Gygax in the book, attributing a big portion of the...

It was a weird thing for a hobby/games company to do at the time Gygax-era TSR made the deal, but not weird for other types of companies that would have done business with Random House. Benn Riggs did a good enough job explaining the perfect storm of Factoring, the loan scheme and poor...

My first D&D product was the Troy Denning Black Box. A few years later, someone gave my the Yellow AD&D starter set, with the dragon art reused from the Denning box. From there, i purchased 3! campaign settings (Forgotten Realms, Planescape, Revised Dark Sun) before moving on to purchase a...