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Yeah, I'm thinking after the whole "Strahd" incident they want the existing OGL SRD sections reviewed again before they release anything under CC. . .so they don't repeat that mess.

I'm not proposing any alternative, I'm just calling out some silly behavior when I see it. People are free to do ridiculous things, just like people are free to call out absurd behaviors by others.

Someone demanding that their hobby pass a purity test that's retroactive, wanting something that has existed for decades to fit up-to-the-moment standards however, is acting outrageously entitled. Someone who is being offended that books published 20, 30 or 40 years ago don't meet 2022's...

Somehow I doubt that's the real reason. For all of Facebook's bluster and hype about the metaverse. . .nobody outside Facebook seems to give a dang about it. The metaverse seems to be an ongoing joke, not a serious tech imitative. I've been hearing for 30 years how virtual reality is coming...

. . .so someone refuses to play D&D because art in earlier editions don't meet 2020's standards of inclusiveness and diversity? Art made for a game built on fantasy worlds that are normally based on a quasi-Medieval-European model, done decades ago, don't fit the current corporate-driven...

The fact they took down the OGL FAQ that said that they couldn't rescind the license in November 2021 (going by Internet Archive records of the WotC site) definitely shows the OGL moves had been brewing for at least a year by the time they dropped the failed 1.1. I'd fully expect they were...

I can see them wanting to de-emphasize it over time. I think they know a hard stop to physical tabletop products would be a deal killer and cause outrage similar to the one they just experienced with the OGL, but I could see a long-term business strategy to slowly push players more to online...

TSR failed for a number of reasons: Total and complete lack of market research. Low-quality products that were never playtested (as Lorraine Williams forbade the playtesting of products on company time). Spreading out the product line across a vast number of settings, making many books...

Yeah, it's originally from Hindu religion, the word अवतार (avatāra), meaning "to cross down" or "to descend", referring to a deity that has taken on an Earthly form. As I said, D&D copied pretty liberally from pop culture, literature, religion, and folklore. The concept of avatars came from...

People thought the OGL was unbreakable, WotC challenged that concept. I was saying that the CC is more stable than the OGL, and if anything or anyone ever threatened its legal validity, for any reason, there would be a lot of deep pockets that would get involved. It's very unlikely WotC will...

While we're all very glad that WotC stepped down from their threat to allegedly "de authorize" the OGL 1.0a (if it could even legally be done) and instead dumped the 5.1 SRD into Creative Commons, I've had some thoughts about this going through my head for a while. When it looked like we might...

I remember quite well the contest two decades ago to create a new campaign setting, the competition that lead to Eberron. I remember most DM's I knew who built homebrew worlds submitted to that. I definitely agree we're pretty much all take the deal he was given. In that sense, I don't really...

Well, without Peter Adkison leaving WotC, I doubt Gen Con would have developed the way it did over the last two decades, that's for sure.

Actually, the fact that Strahd is a vampire is part of the CC release. It was released as part of the Divine Sense paladin ability, in its description. The relevant sentence is: So yeah, you should be fine under the CC release to refer to Strahd as a vampire, or use the full name "Count...

Also, part of the problem with New Coke was the test methodology was fatally flawed. They entirely used "sip" tests. Have testers take a sip of this beverage. Now have them take a sip of this beverage. Which do you prefer? People don't drink soda by the little sip. They usually drink it by...

The original D&D film was from 2000, it came out in November of 2000, not 1994. I'm not aware of a live-action, theatrically released, D&D film from 1994.

Yeah, I went to see the first D&D film with friends back in college. . .22 years ago. I remember leaving it thinking "what the heck was that?" It was a really mediocre, pretty low-budget fantasy film with the D&D name slapped on. . .promptly followed by two direct-to-video sequels that were...

The term got dumped into CC's. 6th edition may not use the term, but it'll probably be used by every open-source game and product derived from earlier editions thanks to the OGL and CC.

Tieflings were already OGC all the way back to the 3e SRD two decades ago. Dragonborn were added to OGC in the 5e SRD that was released under the OGL years ago. . . .so those were already open content years before this mess. That wasn't adding anything new. . . .and while the names "mind...

. . .which was already the state of things before WotC tried this "de-authorization" nonsense a month or so ago. I'd been saying for 20+ years that thanks to the OGL and SRD's, that even if WotC went out of business and D&D went out of print, that the game itself could survive thanks to the...