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You should check out his Tuesday stream. He may have reverse course because he said can't get the kind of results he wants without funky dice. He's meaning more like FFG dice or Genesys dice, not merely dice that are easily mapped to a normal scheme. As he describes it, the problem is inherent...

"Ugh, unfortunately, Matt is going to be unavailable for a few months due to unforeseen complications. We may need to just cancel Season 3, unfortunately! In the meantime, please enjoy our guest campaign that we're calling Critical Reroll with guest DM, Ttam Recrem!"

It's not my job to be open to WotC changing my mind. It's WotC job to do things so right and so well that I'm compelled to change my mind.

As I mentioned in the other thread, I think the biggest thing is that it's not an open statement of support for WotC and D&D. Given that CR has sponsorships from D&D Beyond, this might be the most that they're allowed to say publicly.

It's mostly a non-statement. It's certainly not open support for WotC, though. I think CR is stalling. More than even Hasbro is. CR have the issue that D&D Beyond (and therefore WotC/Hasbro) have been and, as far as I know, still are sponsoring their show. They may very well have...

Yes, TSR used to work like that in the 1970s. It's something Ben Riggs talked about in "Slaying the Dragon: A Secret History of Dungeons & Dragons." I think it was book royalties that stuck around the longest, but supposedly they also used to let artists keep original paintings that they wanted...

Well, my point isn't that their opinions don't matter. It's that they're less invested in the brand at all levels. They're more likely to play what the GM is running precisely because they're basically out nothing by switching to a new game anyways. I've got hundreds of dollars in 5e D&D, and...

I think the better question is: Did casual players ever buy books in the first place? Or did they just use the SRD, borrow books from others, and maybe use various third-party tools to play? They might be D&D players. Are they Hasbro customers? I'm at a much different table than most -- we...

No. The rule isn't "without this magic word, it's revokable". It's "without some terms limiting the ability to revoke, it's probably revokable." The GPL v2 doesn't use the word "irrevokable" like GPL v3 does, but there's significant other text that effectively makes any attempt to do so unlikely...

This, I think, is the most interesting bit: So, the spell is called invisibility. But it's on the Wizard spell list as just "invisibility", and it's in several monster, NPC, and magic item entries. So the name merges into a game mechanic, because the game uses it as a game term. The same is...

Not just that, so was WotC. It was still a privately owned gaming company owned by Peter Adkison. It was not the multibillion dollar juggernaut known as Hasbro. OGL 1.0a was to keep D&D available as a game to the community forever. Even if WotC failed. So that what happened to TSR where the...

Hey, it's the same people who thought the Magic 30th Anniversary Edition should be a non-tournament legal edition of Alpha/Beta except $250 for a pack of 15 cards.

Only 20%! Barely an inconvenience!

My guess would be that it depends on if "perpetual" qualifies as a "set duration". Is a "set duration" one of a fixed duration with a start and end point, or is it one of an explicitly specified duration which might include an unending license?

I really don't think they can revoke the 1.0a. If they could, Hasbro would already have used it to shut down Paizo for Pathfinder 1e sometime between 2009 and 2012 when 4e was cratering. Or they'd do it before now to shut down Pathfinder 2e as a part of their monetization strategy. I think the...

I'm not sure if I'm more annoyed that they're trying the GSL scheme again, or if I'm more annoyed that they're calling it an "open license" when it isn't open at all. Not by the OGF definition, nor by the OKI definition.

It's no more odd than using an OA to hit with an attack that reduces speed to 0 (e.g., a ghoul's claws). Sometimes it makes sense to favor "reality" but often it is just much easier to let the game's abstraction of combat just do it's thing. Reactions break cause and effect in many cases. Most...

No. The second article claiming GTA V makes $911 million per year says it's using data collected from the 12 months prior to July 2021. The last GTA V release prior to July 2021 was in 2015, so it's unlikely to be initial sales data. It's all GTA Online. The single player is not where the...

I don't think that logic follows. After all, what sees a lot of play is often what is overpowered, and few developers intentionally create things to be overpowered. IMO, I think all that can be said is that, with enough system mastery, any designed-in drawbacks to the current multiclassing...

"Level 1. Level 2. Level 3. Level 5. Level 6. Oh, level 4. Almost forgot that. Level 7. Level 8. ..."