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i'm just gonna say: probably get a lawyer, and don't say things without clearing them with the lawyer. don't be like Justin, who is an idiot.

I don't actually entirely care whether they're within their legal rights, because they had previously promised people they wouldn't try to do that. If your pitch for how much I should trust a company is that you don't know for sure that they would do something unambiguously illegal to me that a...

The "repeated" incidents I'm referring to are not WotC, they're other companies which suddenly announced something that struck me as deeply unethical, and backed down. And then, in every previous case, went ahead to try other similar things again later. Yes, it was just one proposed change, but...

If someone proposes to do a stupid thing that is within their rights and does not betray my trust, I might think they're a dumbass but won't be mad. If they repeatedly promise to absolutely not do a thing, and make contracts with me and other people that include a commitment not to do that...

Right. But a break across a 1-foot-wide plank is no larger than one foot across. So, the whole bridge has every plank broken, but each individual break is small enough to mend.

If each individual plank of a broken bridge is under one foot wide, then you can repair the planks individually.

Sticking up for family can be a good thing, but getting into the fights your kid picks as an adult looks suspiciously like you think they're completely incompetent. Which in this case seems like a good call.

There's the locate city nuke. The combination of metamagic feats that allows you to turn a relatively easy spell into something that kills most creatures in a hundred mile radius is probably pretty dangerous.

Something could be 100% unambiguously public domain, and they could still have put it in "product identity" and claimed that the terms of their license required you to act as though it were theirs. Could they win a lawsuit over you using that item? Maybe not! But they could credibly threaten...

It would break existing games in that, if you had an existing game that had not been updated and didn't let you rebind everything, it wouldn't work, and the overwhelming majority of games would never get updated. (And the majority don't have unlimited key rebinding.) I also note that dvorak...

So, WotC needs someone who will update the D&D rulebooks to explicitly prohibit references to other games from being made during D&D games unless someone is paying for the advertising. That'll work.

I think a book on worldbuilding that was newbie-friendly would be of immense value, and I'd probably buy it and use it even though I've done a lot of worldbuilding, because part of being a veteran in a field that's almost entirely self-taught is realizing that you probably missed a lot of really...

I think the history strongly suggests that Tesla and SpaceX function mostly despite him. Twitter shows what happens when the company doesn't have dedicated and trained staff specifically keeping him out of trouble and making sure he's presented with options framed so he'll pick the one the...

I note that there's lots of content that's common in D&D games, like "violence", or "slavery", that many people are very upset about, but we include it because... it's sort of the premise of the game? And for instance, I suspect comparable numbers of people are distressed by demons and devils to...

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I can't imagine a D&D game working well if all the PCs were furries. Where in a standard D&D world would they even find a data center to work in?

Yes, no, maybe? I don't think this is a thing where "trust" is a boolean. In general, by default, I am more comfortable with "maybe include guidance for dealing with a topic" than I am with "no, ban that topic". Making jokes about uncomfortable topics is one of the primary tactics used in...

I trust them with it more than I trust someone else to decide what they should be trusted with. I don't know. Maybe not. But you know what? That is a good reason for us to consider, perhaps, having the material with guidance on how it should or shouldn't be used, rather than leaving them to...

I'm not sure I accept the premise that I should be comfortable handing the game to a 13-15 year old, but... I think my answer is roughly "if we can arrange for this not to be a problem any of them are personally dealing with, protecting them may offer advantages, otherwise, I become dramatically...

I think this relies on assumptions about what "hardcore" means, and I don't think it actually has a single consistent well-defined meaning. When I've been at my most active in gaming, I've often bought fewer books, because I was making my own stuff anyway. For me, "hardcore" is when I'm least...