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ENWorld is a small, subject specific version of what most people perceive Facebook to be. But it's really not. At all. It's like saying a frying pan is a smaller version of a dragon because you can cook eggs on both.

That's almost double since yesterday! If the donations keep doubling every day, they'll crack the $50K in just over a week! (That is how crowd funding works, right?)

A real world example of "Play stupid games, win stupid prizes."

If you check those Twitter threads from actual lawyers posted a couple pages back, I believe one said the lawyer who did this filing was an insurance claim lawyer, so definitely over his head in this area.

INAL, but it seems talking about D&D in an intro/forward would be fair use in the context you mention. I think it's more referencing on the "trade dress" of the product, like explicitly stating on the cover that the book is "1st Edition D&D compatible" or within the game fluff/rules themselves.

I was hoping for something more along the lines of a tunnel collapse, so we can just forget about them...

Well, they're still digging themselves a hole, but it's gotten so deep that now they're digging sideways.

All of this is likely true of some of the people who take offense at the criticisms leveled at earlier editions of the game which prompted the WotC disclaimer. I don't think any of it applies to TSR3 and this [part of the] lawsuit. In previous threads related to them, there's been several...

That seems like it can throw some things off in the game, like Dramatic Tasks, which require X number of successes (including raises), very tough creatures that might need 2 Raises to inflict a wound, or offset massive penalties that may need multiple raises to overcome. Not to mention sometimes...

The nerds are in the nigglings.

One place hexes beat squares for interior maps is for circular structures, like a wizard's tower. But generally, squares more easily "fade into the background" for buildings, which do use right angles most often, regardless of scale.

They're wrong about whether an image reminds of them of another game or not? How is that something you can be wrong about?

My first thought as well. I suppose it depends on whether WotC outright owns the art - i.e., the artist sold them the picture, so now it's WotC's to do with as they please - or if they simply sold first publication rights*, which means WotC would need to ask permission to reuse the art in a...

The Fantasy Trip is an old school (like, literally...published in 1980) game that was based on a couple of tactical "Microgames", the first of which - Melee - is available for free in PDF format. Melee was specifically written in response to early D&D's lack of tactical options and "realism", as...

The author of the book is an English Professor specializing in Appalachian literature, so I feel confident he has a handle on the real history as well. But this is a game, so there has to be a degree of separation between grim reality and grim fantasy, even if the latter is simply a metaphor for...

It did, putting out one of the first series of adventures and monster books available at the very beginning of the OGL license. The follow up setting books were great artistically and fluff wise, but suffered mechanically from what was probably a conversion of an original system they had in mind...

Note that Tower of the Moon in the last entry is for The Fantasy Trip (as shown on the cover), not Dungeon Fantasy.

Compared to 1e and 2e, D&D Third edition actually moved the needle toward all classes being more equal in power. I'd say Ars Magica actually took the existing imbalance in the early D&D editions and simply made it make sense narratively.

There have been pages and pages of discussion of how they could have done better. (See "Similar Threads" at the bottom of this one.) The fact that this resurface of their PR guy who didn't implement any of those things, other than linking to a post that still misses the point - no one really...

I wonder if the new Savage Worlds version of Pathfinder coming out caused any diversion of funds from people who would have spent on regular PF otherwise.