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It's not much of a counter though. Sure, the 4E GSL being unacceptable to Paizo gave them the impetus to launch an OGL-based rule set, but if the OGL wasn't there in the first place they wouldn't have had a rule set to use. Repeating the GSL approach this time would not produce the same...

Come up with a compelling argument that will convince WotC corporate, their corporate parents at Hasbro, Hasbro's shareholders, and the lawyers that the OGL (or something like it, tailored to 5th) is good for them. I think it's a pretty tricky task to do so, when anyone can look at D&D's...

Forgive me the tangent, especially if I'm misinterpreting your statement, but if any DM I was playing with upped the DCs for something because everyone in the party had invested the resources to be good at it, I'd be rather miffed. I tend to subscribe to the school of thought that if I as a...

I've been wanting to playtest ever since the playtest was announced. However, the past year has been a scheduling nightmare for all of my regular groups. A group that used to meet every week like clockwork managed a total of four sessions over the course of a year, for example. Thus, finding a...

Given that a typical realistically proportioned medieval dungeon would consist of a single moderately sized chamber accessed via a trapdoor in the floor above, and would contain no monsters (beyond a possible assortment of rats, lice, and other minor creepy-crawlies), no secret passages, and...

Another update to the equipment list, and the rapier still serves no purpose beyond flavour. It does the exact same damage and damage type as a short sword, costs more, and has fewer keywords/properties. The only advantage it has over the short sword is that it weighs 1 pound less, which only...

The monster doesn't go on the map. The monster is the map.

One thing that struck me while looking through all of the (now almost large enough to actually see) images was how many artists interpreted "a cloak made of shadows and darkness" and "a black longsword made of shadowstuff" as "a cloak and sword made out of black (or grey, or even purple) smoke...

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. I mean, really, the scariest thing the system can do to me is not be preferable to the system I currently use, and that's really not all that frightening. My old system isn't going anywhere, my books aren't going anywhere, and my players aren't...

I voted other. What I'd prefer, but don't really expect to actually see, is something along these lines: Accepting that HP have never succeeded at modelling injury in any satisfactory and internally consistent way (not that they ever actually tried), let's treat them as what they do work as...

At this point you may be wondering, do NPCs have character classes? The answer is that they can, but they don't have to. Classes provide a framework for advancement that is necessary for the Player Characters, but not for NPCs. If you want to use the rules in the Player's Guide to build NPCs...

No, it does not for me. To me, the assumed polytheism of the system and its settings should trump the mechanical and thematic restrictions of a single class. I don't get any immediate connection to that construction because that's what it is, a construction. At no time prior to the publication...

It was entirely possible for the original Cleric to reach Patriarch (the final named level) without ever gaining a single healing or disease curing spell. It was never possible for them get around the edged weaponry restriction. All Clerics automatically had the ability to turn undead. Which...

Well, the druid class has a hard time resembling the "real" druid, because all information we have in druids is at best second hand (more often third hand or worse) and recorded by foreigners who had a tendency to misinterpret and misrepresent cultures they viewed as more primitive. But I was...

No, I'm talking clerics. The term means "member of the clergy". Depending on specific religion, the term can overlap or even be synonymous with priest. The idea that cleric means "armoured priest with healing magic, turn undead, and a taboo against edged weaponry" is a D&Dism which, as I think...

(Emphasis added.) Why? This is one of the heaviest bits of setting that gets embedded into the system in D&D, and I simply do not like it. The Cleric is the servant of some god (well, not originally, as there wasn't actually a mention of any gods whatsoever in the original class description...

Meant to get back to this earlier. I asked a question ("What do you do when there's an NPC you want to use that the system cannot generate?"), @Ashtagon went to the effort of responding, so I figured I should probably address his response. I would say that systems rarely can deal with odd...

See, I find myself agreeing with so much of this that I get a bit of mental whiplash when you come to a conclusion so different from where I get from the same starting points. To me, the difference between wizard magic and sorcerer magic is like the difference between cooking from recipes or...

Then let me be the first to do so. (Though I have to assume that you mean "this thread" when you say "here", rather than "this forum", because I'm quite certain that I and others have raised the issue before.) I am seriously unclear on why the fighter is the only one of the classes...

If their mother's in the hospital, I'll express my sympathy, and otherwise proceed as normal. If they double-book with a pub crawl, I'll get a bit miffed they didn't invite the rest of us along, and then proceed as normal. If they just forgot, everyone in the group will mock them for the...