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...You know how many times in the last 50 years D&D has changed forever? It's not a small number.

Good post. Agreed about the THAC0 meme being devoid of intellectual merit. Do not particularly miss tracking experience gains across a multiclass character with different level costs, class rewards, and prime requisite bonuses, but can't argue that it at least encouraged play beyond the three...

In my opinion, nicknaming the new open licensing effort the "ORC" just demonstrates the esteem the community has for the concept, and performs necessary pushback against the idea that it is intended to be hateful toward anyone, real or imagined. But then I'm also totally fine with the...

...I appreciate what you're saying, but you realize all of these things are also true of the D&D movie, right? Not produced by a fan-recognized studio, nothing to do with an established film canon... ...and, frankly, likely kind of bad. ;)

Animal abuse is never a punchline.

I'm not an expert on AI by any stretch, but I don't think "only two months old" is a useful metric. It's built on top of the third generation of a system that OpenAI has been developing since 2018, and which itself had precursors. Still impressive, but not like, holy sh*t join the Butlerians...

It means they're paying someone at the law firm to make some charts and write a blog post, at least. The thing about data is that a good analyst can make it say whatever they want. For my part, I strongly dislike how this individual throws the playtest under the bus to build momentum for their...

Chris Cao is VP of Digital Games Development at Wizards. His LinkedIn says, "Joining the D&D family to help bring digital experiences to life." Presented without comment.

It absolutely did not. The previous statement was that material licensed under the OGL 1.0a would be unaffected by OGL 1.1. That is a lie by omission, because being unlicensed by the OGL 1.1 is a form of being unaffected by the OGL 1.1. This statement specifically says that material licensed...

Okay, thank you for responding -- I obviously don't expect anyone to read the lawyers' minds. I get it: in the absence of a definition of 'authorization,' Wizards can try to say it means whatever they want it to mean. Regardless of what Wizards intends, nothing is settled until the OGL is...

Okay, please help me out here. I understand this is not a retraction --it's a blog post. If this is not a sufficient statement of intention to retract, I'd like to help defend that position, but I don't follow this reading. I don't see how anything could "always be licensed under OGL 1.0a"...

New news post on D&D Beyond! https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1428-a-working-conversation-about-the-open-game-license "Your OGL 1.0a content. Nothing will impact any content you have published under OGL 1.0a. That will always be licensed under OGL 1.0a." That looks like a pretty unequivocal...

Clint's interpretation is reasonable, but the RAW does not define immunity to conditions as automatic success on saving throws, and the secondary effect is triggered by a saving throw, not by being unaffected by the condition. In my opinion, immunity can negate a saving throw, but it can't...

Well, not yet, but we did get Colin Meloy of the Decemberists and Brann Dailor of Mastodon! https://www.opendnd.games/signatories-1

Um. That article is all about how uncertain everyone is about it. Did it get revised at some point? I'm with DiTerlizzi (as I usually am) -- that pachisaur looks even less like the umber hulk than Antlar does. You have unconvinced me!

It's all good, man, I just don't see it. They're all clearly inspired by stag beetles, but while the upper right image is clearly an update of the lower left image, by any metric, the only reason I see similarities between the two of them and the lower right image are because I've been playing...

Well, okay, hold up, you kind of begged the ques-- :oops: I'm moving out to the woods.

I'd say it's more than a business need, it represents security for all of us. After all, without Durgons & Datgns, how will we dis the duunges of the next 50 years?! Don't encourage him. Real dice have numbers. :)

Thaaat one's a bit of a stretch. It basically amounts to "they're both giant stag beetles." But as a Final Fantasy fan I was particularly gobsmacked to learn that 'coeurl' predates 'displacer beast!' Thank you for that! I enjoy the weird little discrepancies that have become their own truth...