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I disagree, both with the violence being a problem and with no one wanting to discuss it. The violence is the point, because performative/symbolic rejections of values that we do, in fact, hold dear are cathartic means whereby we relieve stress. Interpreting this as actual rejections of those...

Right, and that's what the people saying "this isn't a problem because I can fix it" seem to be missing. There's a reason why the self-contradictory nature of that response has been nicknamed the Oberoni fallacy for years now.

Just $60? Someone's an optimist.

I disagree; it took a strange turn some time before this (e.g. remember when Lolth's great evil was retconned to be her introducing elves to the idea of fixed genders?).

Hm, I have been meaning to watch Nyaruko: Crawling with Love for a while now.

You're wrong there, since the products I was referring to are for PF1, which the 5.1 SRD in the CC is useless for.

It's always surprising to me when this is forgotten. People saying "humanoids shouldn't be intrinsically evil" seem to forget it's been several decades since that was the case (and arguably never was), with 3E making it expressly the case:

I just finished James J. Butcher's 2022 novel, Dead Man's Hand, the first in his Unorthodox Chronicles series. I'll admit that I picked this one up on the strength of the author's father's name. I've read all of the books in the Dresden Files, and when I saw that Jim Butcher's son had also...

I disagree. New products are still coming out under it, which strikes me as the definition of "alive," even if it's not as big as it once was.

The Pathfinder Core Rulebook itself has Section 15 listings for both the Tome of Horrors (Necromancer/Frog God Games) and The Book of Experimental Might (Monte Cook). Both would have to be released under the CC (after the 3.5 SRD is itself released under it) before Paizo could release the PF1...

Which in many cases are the proverbial "little guys." Hence why I'm more sympathetic to them than I am to WotC.

I suspect you're right, and while that probably means that it's going to remain safe (at least for the foreseeable future), the downside is that a lot of the larger third-party publishers find "probably" too uncertain to countenance.

WotC's failure to put out (what I call) an OGL v1.0b—which adds the word "irrevocable" and is released into the public domain the way Paizo's ORC license is—constitutes a continuing failure on their part, one which is not ameliorated by releasing the 5.1 SRD into CC (nor can be even if other...

I think that's the wrong way to look at it, in all honesty. After WotC backed off revoking the OGL, Paizo could very well have kept publishing PF2 as-is. But uncertainty alone was enough to make that unpalatable to them, which is entirely understandable; it was that same uncertainty which the...

That's the thing, though: WotC didn't put everything in the Creative Commons. They put the 5.1 SRD in it, and while they also released some IP they didn't mean to, the total wasn't anywhere near what the 3.5 SRD had, which is what Pathfinder 1E and 2E were both based on. For instance, there's a...

I should stress that I was referring to Pathfinder 1E, not AD&D 1E. It might be possible to back-generate AD&D 1E material from the 5.1 SRD (or maybe the forthcoming 5.2 SRD) in the CC. But it's not possible to do that for PF1 material.

It's a meaningful difference if you want to publish something for a non-5E game released under the OGL. Pathfinder 1E still has a not-inconsiderable number of holdouts, for instance.

Is that your campaign, or is that all campaigns? Because I have it on good authority that it's surprisingly hard to create an incompetent ass-clown in D&D. https://kotaku.com/it-is-surprisingly-hard-to-create-an-incompetent-ass-cl-1837068277