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A lot of us still play older editions, or things derived from older editions.

I've known a DM that ran petrification that way. He admittedly had a petrification fetish and read/wrote lots of stories about people being petrified. He was fascinated by the idea of people being turned to stone but remaining completely conscious and aware. . .just totally immobile and...

I've seen it played that if the statue is so damaged the body would die effectively instantly upon being reverted, the spirit is freed. Petrification is a curse that transmutes the body. . .if the body is too wounded to hold the soul, the soul is freed.

I'm glad all of us who thought they wouldn't back down (you aren't the only one) was wrong. I didn't think they would either. I can only imagine there were some very intense conversations at the boardroom level in Hasbro, because their stock was going into a dive and this was the apparent...

3.0, 3.5 AND Modern to CC! There's a lot in the d20 Modern SRD that's still useful too. . . .and I'd say release the OGC that was released in the 3e Unearthed Arcana too, but they never made a specific SRD of it, just an announcement that the game rules in there were OGC, so I could see them...

If they don't backpedal rapidly though, the argument that it was a bad faith contribution made by someone without authorization becomes much more indefensible. It's been up for hours now, with the fact these things are in there being reported on across the web. I'm sure that if this was a true...

The outrage reached mainstream media, and got large enough the large investors started to notice, and Hasbro's stock price started notably dropping. This was a damage control measure because the OGL controversy started genuinely hurting the bottom line of Hasbro, more than the actual plans for...

"The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems slip through your fingers." - Princess Leia Organa

No, because many of us would reject a closed D&D. We did for 4e, and the OGL controversy shows that a lot of fans now would still do the same today. They can make a closed 6e, but they can't make everyone switch to it.

Yeah, I'd put money at this point that future editions will be released under a very restrictive non-open license, if any license at all. However, leaving the OGL 1.0a intact (and thus everything released under it available) and 5.1 SRD into Creative Commons is a pretty big victory.

It mentions that Strahd is a vampire, and that Mind Flayers have psychic attacks and are aberrations, that slaadi and aboleths are aberrations too. It's not JUST the names, there's at least a few details that slipped in there too.

Well, those of us who still play 3.x and d20 Modern would be inconvenienced to say the least to try to reverse-engineer as much material from those games from the 5.1 SRD. However, them backing off their assault on the OGL is definitely a win. It's just a matter of how much damage WotC did too...

Which is why, of course, Marvel started the Marvel Cinematic Universe with widely known, universally beloved longtime pop culture icon Iron Man. . .and when people went to see Infinity War and Endgame, they all knew Thanos so well from his many prior comic book appearances the audience knew so...

Which is, of course, why the Lord of the Rings movies absolutely flopped at the box office. . .those novels were almost five decades old by the time the films were released and many critics called the books racist.

I'd imagine that Sony Online Entertainment knew what it was doing when it made EverQuest, with regards to copying/derivative things from D&D and what someone could get away with copying versus what they couldn't copy. Besides it being the (then) biggest MMORPG ever so presumably they had some...

Everquest is absolutely a fountain of D&D creatures, classes, and races that copy closely from D&D, but WotC never has taken action in the 24 years the game has been active. Just about all the current major D&D classes except Warlocks and Sorcerers are in there (because they weren't in D&D when...

I'm sure that with enough research, the vast majority of D&D races, classes, and creatures can be shown to be derived from literature, folklore, mythology, and elements of popular culture that aren't Hasbro IP. Even for things that WotC considers their own IP, there's probably ways to make them...

Oh, I know. I'm a huge fan of the Realms, and Planescape, I know the lore pretty well. The thing is, they don't seem to be capitalizing on it. The first set of D&D movies from the early 2000's were pretty generic fantasy movies. This one doesn't seem to be breaking that mold. There's all...

How was that Warcraft film funded? It's my understanding that Hasbro fronted the money to make the new D&D movie themselves. They wagered their own money on this. If it bombs, they're out a LOT of money, not just some outside investors. Trying to figure out the impact of the success or...

I do suspect that might be what they're hoping for. . .for D&D to become like Marvel, and be more of a movie and TV "franchise" where the original printed material that built it is relegated to a very minor part of the business. I don't think that will work though, because Marvel is built on...