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It's crazy. Per Bob World Builder, they're allowing up to an hour long interviews, with no WotC approval over questions or release of the video required. All they want is to see the list of questions in advance so Kyle can prepare. I don't know who Kyle Brinks is, but he must have balls of...

Let me put it this way: I don’t expect it to be any less compatible than A5E. The core will remain the same. Some classes may be “better” than their 2014 counterparts, but in the end, you’ll be able to play 2014e adventures with the 2024e rules, and vice-versa.

Only Sly Flourish could say with certainty what he meant, but if I could take a crack at it: he noted that he had floated the idea that Wizards was one of many "5e publishers" (in lieu of saying "third party publishers) before the whole OGL kerfluffle started. Historically, the perception has...

I think what Maxperson is getting at is, assuming that WotC’s putative ability to “de-authorize” is actually taken as an ability to rescind their offer to license (and subsequently allow sublicenses of) their SRDs, it does not appear clear that they have the ability to prevent creators who have...

In function, yes. In practice? That will depend on what becomes the community standard. If everyone and their sibling is using ORC, and you want to be part of that community, then it behooves you to use that. Again, this pure speculation, but I suspect ORC will work very much like the OGL, so...

We can’t tell until we see the finished license, but presumably ORC will be viral, unlike CC-BY. So if you desire wide dissemination of your work throughout the open RPG community, you’d use ORC. Whereas if you want to keep most of your work confined to your product, you’d use CC. That, and of...

Ideally what you’d do is just what WotC did. You’d release your product as is (being sure to include the necessary attribution if using the CC SRD 5.1). Then separate to that, you have a document on a website with all of your original work that you want to put in Creative Commons, with a CC BY...

How much of the 3.5 SRD is actually in OSRIC? Given the vast difference between 3.5 and 1e rules, my impression was that invoking the name of the OGL and 3.5 SRD was merely to provide legal cover, since merely re-expressing the 1e rules by themselves was untested legal waters. Class structure...

I expect the final version of the new OGL is going to be awesome…for 3PP of print and PDF products. WotC will promise the moon to get the new OGL more or less accepted. Even the products under OGL 1.0 will somehow be grandfathered in. VTTs, though, are screwed. All the above will happen only...

She’s fighting with a brick because they are prisoners and have no weapons. And the first trailer showed the paladin stabbing a human foe with his sword. Couple things: Magic missile is not an at will cantrip in 5e. The character is a sorcerer, not a wizard. Sorcerers do get at-will Eldritch...

For my group, the shenanigans is the juice.

I’ll admit that my excitement for the movie took a hit in light of recent events, but I’ll be damned if this trailer didn’t get me all excited again. It’s just…everything I wanted in a D&D movie. A solid cast, faithfulness to the game, stakes, action, and irreverence. It actually somewhat pains...

Well, yes and no. The thing with open source/open licenses is that they assume duplication. That's kind of the whole point, and why commercial enterprises generally don't release their products like Wizards did. If you're a commercial company dealing with open source, what you're selling are the...

WotC isn’t placing the “concepts” of the D&D rules in CC, they are placing their text expressing these rules, for which they indisputably have always had copyright to, into CC.

I've come to the conclusion that WotC really doesn't care about 3PP content. They're not worried about another Pathfinder stealing 1D&D's thunder, they don't care about the revenue the 3PP market is generating, they probably don't even really care about hate speech content, at least not to the...

This is why I think the release to CC is a bigger deal than people have been making of it. Even at the limited degree currently announced, it makes D&D truly free, not beholden to SRDs or licenses administrated by Wizards, or the vagaries of court rulings in potential lawsuits. Before it was...

IANAL, but that’s what I’ve been thinking. But I suppose it’s a sauce for the goose kind of thing? Maybe WotC doesn’t care about non-WotC OGC, but the ostensible de-authorization opens users of that OGC to the threat of legal action from the respective creators of it? It seems highly unlikely...

What statute that defines “open license” would WotC be in criminal violation of?

Not so much doubling down, but certainly not a retraction or mea culpa. I don’t imagine that people unhappy with the first episode will be happy with the follow-up. The episode mainly deals with three issues they didn’t have the time to go into previously: 1) Does what Dancey say about the...

Sure, but my point is, that's a perfectly reasonable stance to expect a 3PP to take. It's unusual for that to be the stance the end-user takes. Or at least, a significantly large and vocal subset of it.