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Planescape is D&D but D&D is not necessarily Planescape :) He's pitching the Planescape set as being applicable to anyone who plays D&D, really talking up about how all of the elements of the boxed set are things that folks could potentially use in their own home campaigns regardless of...

See I read this (from the complaint): And to me it starts to sound like it might be a personal beef between execs that escalated into some nonsense.

THANK GOD I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE I THOUGHT I WAS LOSING IT Ahem. I mean, yeah. Me too.

You're right - I had it backwards. The way I read the story I thought that Netflix paid EG to create a TTRPG and was letting them have a stream of money in addition to the original outlay. But it's the other way around and a more traditional licensing arrangement - EG paid Netflix for the right...

That's completely unfair. There's also the Warhammer 40k bits.

I assume that if this is about the setting bible, then that's exactly what Netflix would be worried about. That their lawyers didn't quite correctly outline what the work for hire agreement entailed and so there would be some question as to whether that work belonged to Netflix/Snyder or EG that...

On another note - 700+ pages of RPG around an IP that nobody has even seen yet has to be some kind of record right? I mean, West End Games used to do that with Masterbook back in the day (and that's how we got the Species RPG) but that was decades ago and much thinner volumes. I'm assuming they...

I can only imagine what he might have thought once he saw that they'd not only created 700+ of TTRPG based on his movie, but also that they built an entire setting bible and filled in all of the gaps in his script.

Thanks for the analysis Snarf. Yeah, so far we only have the "he said" part of the "he said/she said". I have no problem with a declaratory judgment that Netflix is a bunch of poopy-heads (I've said worse) but I do want to read their version of what they think happened. The idea that the things...

I don't know if that's just a clever sign that they've put up over actual maps of Lake Geneva or if it's the actual "map" they're selling. If it is the actual map note that it's the map from the D&D cartoon DVD boxed set with the names changed on it...

To your original question I think giving advantage if they have multiple relevant skills would work fine and not break things. Especially if you're applying this to knowledge checks for "extra" info. Instead of rolling your religion and your arcana and your history and whatever separately you're...

If it weren't stretching the definition of "licensed properties" I'd absolutely be listing pretty much everything that Onyx Path publishes that I play - Scion, Trinity Continuum, and especially They Came From... They're settings that I like, but boy does even their slightly updated version...

I feel like there's a step missing in all of this. Which is figuring out the question of "why does this rule exist in the game." Either from a mechanical point of view (what purpose it's trying to serve in the game) or from a historic point of view (as in why Gygax needed to hack this rule into...

Ok, this is all a big pile of hoo-boy, but hoo-boy on this one: A forged NDA would be a thing if true. And IANAL but I think that thing might be at the very least a substantial fine. Also a really dumb thing. I haven't watched the video but what possible reason would there be in a bankruptcy...

The ultimate in computer security - sneakernet!

Honestly it doesn't break the game to hand out Omega Tech after every single encounter so I'd keep doing it regardless of what the book says. We moved to that after our second session because the equipment didn't seem so unbalancing that having extra caused any problems, only extra options. And...

So being both a 4e GM and a GW 7e GM I will say that GW tends to be deadlier than 4e across the board. The expectation is that you're going to have characters die, but character creation is so easy that you just roll up new ones, join the group and keep going forward. It's on the same engine as...

It look me a minute to realize that DED was supposed to be short for "Dedicated by". So yeah, oof. I don't think these are supposed to be for folks who are dead? I think this is like "buy a stone commemorating your favorite former TSR creator" which doesn't necessarily mean they have to be...

It was the great edition wars of 2040 that really did a number on the planet. Warring factions decimated the landscape worldwide. Unlike previous wars it wasn't so much the humans fighting that caused the devastation, it was the AIs and the corporate mergers of the previous decades - as the AIs...

Oh - I think I see what's happening. They're not just a streaming game company. They're a collection of actors/artists/writers who have gotten together and found a wildly popular niche for their creative impulses that turns out makes them money. Turning their own creativity into money is like...