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5e's encounter building in infamously messy, with some fights being marked as "even" being remarkably easier, and some fights listed as "Hard" not feeling like it, this make it hard to challenge players, and makes 5e's encounter design feel messy. (Its why you should play Level Up! 5e because...

So i decided to give a minor look over the subclass compatibility, and made a general list of observations i've found. This game is marketed with the idea that any options are mostly compatible with O5E, and i find this is mostly true, infact this game is likely more compatible with O5E options...

This has become a lot easier to do now since they are planning put the most core expressions of 5e on CCBY

No the trick is the expressions of these rules that are coming out for free. The issue was they could around the specific expressions of having the 6 stats and their names, the name Profiecency bonus, skills, those other things were specific dnd things, and would have to rigorously be renamed...

If they are "Deauthorizing" ogl 1.0a....i have no idea how that works. But the deauthorization has to be retroactive so those are still, pretty much screwed. Its legally very...messy and probably not sound. At most its saying them will turn a blind eye.

This is basically a completely dupe. The issue is this is still worse than the old deal, them asserting they and "deauthorize" is legally tenuous at best, and also the joke of giving a "irrevocable license" that they in their own terms and revoke for whatever reason, is peak legal arcanery...

How does that work if the OGL is deauthorized, i dont understand, they have lost the literal right to use the terms in those books retroactively

This...Literally makes no sense. So the license is Deauthorized, but still authorized so old stuff can be made? What?

"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." But not future content because we think we can revoke it(even though that likely isnt possible by law). "We are still changing the OGL to not do thinks it was...

They didnt address the problem. The problem is, it changing in general. They literally said "Well we are still changing it, but we will just not be total PoS about it" Like no, the right answer is not doing this at all.

Worlds Without Number is pretty much this, and its free Castles and Crusaders is another good option and the PHB at least is free. Its basically if ADnD was made using the d20 system. TBH that game was ahead of its time, as 4e/5e outright took a lot of mechanics straight from it

Tbh, I think while the gesture is nice, i feel like the point wasnt that it was a good RPG license(This was a secondary effect). The point of the OGL, is that it made DND and its mechanic's open source, so that Wizards wouldnt have to sue you to death for using dnd expressions/mechanics, and...

Where do i even publish it lol

It will likely be fine, because unless 4e, they are making a actual dnd game, that is also compatible with the previous edition. We dont even know if its 6E yet.

Their original Korvosa City guide was made to be mostly systemless(They even said it in the book), and its a very good city to use. Most of their setting books can easily be used for anything, espeically the Inner Seas World Guide. I use it actively for my 5e game each week, its a minimum crunch.

Honestly if they just...not do this, and update the OGL to clarify irrevocability, thats enough. Because no matter what they do with One DnD. All the dope naughty word from 3e/5e and all the clones built on it will not die.

Justin Alexander made a video of his history of the Open Game license, put a lot into context, espeically the 3.5e/4e era perspective shift. Its a good watch Here is it in written version. (This version was made before current events, but obviously, the situation has changed, but still a good...

Probably pf2e, but if the OGL really screws them, and they cant make a non ogl option, Probably WWN, it is a great middle ground between modern 5e design, and OSR, that works well, light weight, and fun. Maybe give Savage worlds a shot too. since its actually a generic system that can do a lot...

Eh not really, Martials get bigger benefits from just taking martial feats. Magic items can help, but only really if you arent giving them too casters, which just makes their power grow even further beyond, making them even stronger.

Martials needs feats more than magic items, but magic items can take feats place. But they really werent lying about that, at more you need A magic item to deal with resistances, just a single 1, even just a Moonlight sword. The issue is more central around the game itself than that.