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My dozen high-school buddies and I really want to see it but Hasbro/WOTC is not getting any more money from us for their betrayal of the community unless they stop trying to ‘deauthorize’ the OGL, add the word ‘irrevocable’ to it, and release it as the OGL 1.0b.

The supposed need to revoke OGL 1.0a by WOTC for fear of being associated with hateful material may be a smokescreen. Questions for any lawyers out there (I’m not one) : Couldn’t a racist parody or satire of the game be created at any time in the US? Maybe someone could take WOTC’s public...

5 digits - it could be up to 99,999! I think we should also send our intention to not support OneD&D through their contact us function on their website or through snail mail. I was planning on switching my current 5E campaigns from Roll20 to OneD&D, but not if they de-authorize the OGL 1.0. If...

There is a small retroclone of the rules version that came with the Fate Deck on DTRPG: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/m/product/243818 It’s OGL so maybe someone can expand on it…

Good point. You could have saved $15 a year the last 10 years to have the $150 ready for 1D&D in 2024.

Not a fan of species. I’ve heard and read it used just as much as the word race in a negative way. No real difference in my opinion so it does not matter which of the two they use. Maybe bloodline? A bit dark sounding but seems neutral.

Darn - I really do not like feats. Love that they are optional in 5E 2014 since it makes it easier as a DM to not allow them in my games. I guess I can just ignore them in 5E 2024. Since everyone gets them it should balance if I ignore them completely. Or I can just keep running 5E 2014 - I have...

Here is a link to the Quickstarter for the StokerVerse RPG: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/391174/StokerVerse-Roleplaying-Game-Quickstart?affiliate_id=266739

I’m a huge Terminator fan so I got the RPG for it via Kickstarter that uses S5S. The S5S version there is crunchy and tactical in combat (well suited for the Terminator setting) but it seems they have toned that down for the StokerVerse RPG. The core game mechanic is rolling a 1d10 Success Die...

That was the adventure for the groups I ran it for - we used public dice rolls so fudging was minimal behind the screen - not that that helped much. We were mostly 12-14 years old at the time so they also learned some lessons at the cost of PC lives.

My first experience of a DCC-like funnel in D&D was the module Horror on the Hill. I ran it with new groups to establish their PCs. Ten or twelve 1st level PCs with HPs rolled at first level to start and three to four survivors by the end of it. Worked well to unite the party as the ones who...

Thank you for the spirited and thoughtful reply. I believe art is inherently meaningful. I think that is why so many artists describe their works as their children. It has meaning for the artist and meaning for those that interact with it. The art becomes something new inside each person. When...

Gully dwarves, tinker gnomes, and wizard-gods, do not exist in the real world so they cannot mock anything in the real world. In my opinion that is a healthy way to enjoy art. You see it for what it is - a creative expression - and add or take away what you want. Spreading a message for artists...

I read the original DL trilogy in middle-school and thought they were entertaining fantasy fiction. As readers we fill in any gaps and create our own view of things. Some will laugh at some thing and others will be offended by it. Reading is interactive in that way. Life is art and art is life...

If that’s the case this poster will likely be a collectors item.

Nice homage to Star Frontiers - humans, yazarians, dralasites, and vrusk. Switching the vrusk with the thri-kreen as the insectoid species was clever.

Sounds like the wild serious/comedy tone mix of the Game Night movie. Hmm…that has potential for a good flick. I would have preferred a mostly serious tone like the LOTR trilogy, but I’m sure this won’t be the last D&D movie attempt.

When I first started playing D&D in the early 80s, I fudged rolls behind my screen all the time to affect the narrative. I developed excellent acting (i.e. lying) and dice-slight-of-hand tricks. My players never suspected and we had a blast. Years later when one of my players began DMing they...

From the great feedback on this post (thanks everyone) it seems to me that if WOTC or another RPG publisher wants to offer unique digital collectibles they could do it without NFTs. A combination of an online-only rule set (like Roll20’s Burn Bryte), an official VTT, and bring something like...

Why have a decentralized ledger? Couldn’t a company like WOTC create an official ledger for those that want digital collectibles?