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Oh, gosh, yes. Where are my D&D toys? I was ever-so-slightly too young to catch them in the ’80s, and a new run was a hope I cleaved to as soon as Hasbro bought Wizards. I own every D&D KRE-O set I could find, but I couldn’t find hardly any, they were so poorly marketed. But it’s been par...

Let’s try to remember that as insulted and betrayed as we are all feeling, Wizards is actively trying to deflect attention away from their efforts to deauthorize the OGL 1.0a, and they don’t have far to go. Even before the attempted walk-back, discourse on D&D Beyond was largely focused on...

I always start with a different humanoid because IMHO the best tiefling lore has always been the original Planescape lore, where tieflings and genasi are magical mutants. I’ve had a tiefling who was a human-descended scion of a long time demonic foe of Kostchtchie who was tall and attractive...

The comparison I drew at the time was to the recently completed purchase by Embracer Group of Perfect World Entertainment -- for $103 million. That's a purchase of the active MMOs Neverwinter, Star Trek Online, Champions Online, and Perfect World International, as well as the Torchlight series...

If I may paraphrase Headmaster Phineas Nigellus Black: "You know, I disagree with Goodman Games on many counts-- --but you cannot deny they've got style."

Emphasis mine again. The link in their sig is word-for-word titled, "Why you shouldn't start ANOTHER thread about DDB not giving away free redeems on your hardcopy book purchases." Thank you for your interest, but this will be my last post in this topic. With sincere hope, I encourage you to...

As a rule, I don't allow 3PP in my games, no. But I own a ton of OGL material that I use as reference and consider it extremely valuable.

Emphasis mine. As I said, they do not seem to understand how consumer advocacy works.

No successful sales exec in the history of the world has ever said, "Oh, those people are a lost cause." A consumer is either someone who bought the last product and is to be retained, or someone who did not and is to be courted. Everyone is a potential customer; rage is just passion waiting...

Thank you for putting this together.

I know that as a 36-year veteran of D&D, a single open-source alternative to oneD&D is absolutely not what I want. But I wouldn't mind 1,000 open-source alternatives to oneD&D, all iterating off each other's SRDs and allowing me to do the same. Because I do like D&D a lot. I would play it in...

That is awesome, and good news, and I would like that explained, too, please. :D

I quite enjoy the veiled implication that this is a raid. :giggle:

:) I had admittedly been wondering about this (specifically, whether all participants in the OGL 1.0a have the same rights as its creator), but then, the bit of the OGL where you can use it to license non-d20-SRD-based systems has always evaded my understanding. Would it be possible to maybe...

60 Minutes, 1985. Never forget. We were stronger than that, we are stronger than this, we are stronger than attacks on D&D in general, whether they come from within or without.

I am intensely gratified that this is still even partially true. Hope had nearly expired. Idiocy should never drive policy. Woof, that's sour. :whistle: It's also possible that D&D Beyond reaches far more of their fans far more quickly than the Wizards site these days. In general, they've...

And if the community is the rock, this fact is the hard place. Because they don't believe they can afford to do it. Wizards almost certainly doesn't actually care about anything released in the last 22 years under the OGL 1.0a. Say what you will about corporate management, they are not...

Can you cite your source on this? Setting material being open game content would be a complete departure from the terms of the OGL 1.0a, and I haven't seen this mentioned in any of the summaries of the OGL 1.1. For clarity: anyone can publish Forgotten Realms adventures through the DMs Guild...

Yeah, I think they still make the pawn boxes. Those are great, even if you have to buy a couple of them to get a decent number of mooks. I love their map packs. I'm usually a theater of the mind dungeon master, but during D&D4 especially I really valued being able to slap one of those cards...

Is their Gamemastery line still a going concern? It is system-agnostic, for the most part, but it's things like map packs and card decks rather than books.