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there is nothing retroactive here, this is about a future product and future sales

You can argue that me using game design influence as the criteria for influential to be personal preference, I would not consider the exclusion of OSRIC under that criteria to be purely personal preference however. You can nominate whoever you want, I am not expecting anyone to follow along, I...

what is it the design innovation it introduced and spread? Obviously there are several Borgs around now, so there probably is something... I am not familiar with them, the layout / style makes me avoid Mork Borg / * Borgs

but OSRIC did not introduce that design, nor is it necessarily even the starting point for those OSR games. If you think that there is a lot of design happening, nominate the OSR games that have that design (assuming it proliferated)

you can choose whatever criteria you want for 'influential', the OP used and so did I. OSRIC does not qualify under that criteria

maybe, but OSRIC does not clear that hurdle, however low I set it agreed, I just do not see it as innovating anything, so I would not put it on my list agreed here too, Ryan and the OGL had a huge impact, OSRIC and everything it kicked off is only a part of that impact ;)

I addressed this a few posts up, it does nothing innovative outside a creative use of the SRD. To me this is about innovation in TTRPG mechanics, otherwise add 3e for having the SRD in the first place

I would say there are some that did things that are sufficiently different from D&D to be included here, but OSRIC certainly is not one of them. Guess it depends on what you want to see as the influence, from a mechanics perspective it does not belong here, from a 'first to use the SRD to...

OSRIC is just D&D, not sure why it would need to be added

I am curious about your rationale for including some of them. What did this section of your list lead to? Ars Magica Sorcerer Burning Wheel Savage Worlds Fate

given that TSR did no market research, I wonder if this is not simply a matter of ‘we did not want to do this’ more than anything. Not sure what market signals there were, but TSR ignoring them would be on par as well

probably not, depends on the level of success of the KS

I don’t think anyone equates the two, the point is the words are still harmful, and who knows if the Bledsaws leave it at words (as opposed to trying to influence policy…)

don’t know what their rules are, but this one has some rules for aerial combat https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dracostudios/dragonbond-endless-sagas/description “Aerial Combat Challenge your players' tactical prowess with aerial dogfights. Learn maneuvers such as the Underwhip, swinging...

I would not call it conspiratorial in this case, but Bledsaw benefitting / getting more attention could very well be harmful to other people. As I wrote, it is pretty much right on that line.

at a minimum indirectly, without his license it cannot made not clear at this point, if so it would most likely be minor no

the problem being the bolded part I believe usually about 50% of those following a KS end up backing it. I expected a higher number

as long as no one else is impacted, probably, but if they basically conspire against a third party them agreeing to do so does not fall under the ‘consenting adults’ scenario. This case straddles the line between the two, depending on how / whether JG benefits from this

that is true for any product, not just crowdfunding. The beauty of free speech is that we can can tell the manufacturer just what we think of them making that product in the first place. There being buyers does not mean it is inherently desirable for the product to be made, which is why eg...

they separated the graph into three areas, the start, which was great compared to prior editions but not to the heights of 5e, the rise of 5e and finally reduced numbers after Fizban's