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In addition to a few that had previously been mentioned (Highlander, Jupiter Ascending, EDIT: and The Culture), I would be interested in seeing a licensed TTRPG for Dragon Prince (the Melanie Rawn books, not the TV series). And something else that I have managed to forget by the time I reached...

If the facts alone were sufficient, we would not be up to 721 posts....

Interesting. I am pretty sure I have both books (somewhere), but I never bothered to do a detailed side-by-side comparison. I knew that the names were changed, due to the original names not being open, but I did not realise it went beyond that. As @Reynard notes, the extent of what you do and...

"The game" is either an abstract construct or a commercial product, depending on context Either way, it is pretty irrelevant. WotC's actions harmed people, and that is what matters (that is pretty much all that ever matters).

I do not think this one counts - that was SSS's contribution, not WotCs. Based on your description, the same seems to be true of the Dragon Magic one.

I don't have to imagine it. I have used various BIM packages that work pretty much exactly like that, and modelling buildings and terrain is exactly what they do. Despite their doing everything they can to simplify the process (which is why they cost far more than would be viable for a gaming...

You may only care about the 5e SRD, but not everyone is you. It is probably the part of this whole things I care about the least. I care about the OGL, and all the other WotC SRDs, and the vast oceans of OGC beyond that. Their CC maneuver does nothing for any of that! (Except possibly put it...

WotC lie. Anyone who did not know this already has received more than adequate proof over the last few weeks. Their words are worthless (EDIT: which is not the same as saying their words don't matter - they can do a lot of damage with them); I will continue to look at their actions.

Yeah, how badly have you screwed up if you allow Sony of all people to paint themselves as consumer champions by comparison? This whole situation really does have a lot of the same energy, right down to the stupid "one" name. We know that a lot of the higher ups at Wizbro now were previously at...

I think they already have, if the relevant parts of OneD&D match the playtest packets. ...and in the vast majority of cases there are right. There are things you can change without breaking compatibility, but not many and you have to be extremely careful.

Before the recent upheaval, I was pretty convinced that it would be firmly in the "not actually compatible, but similar enough that you can paper of the incompatibilities fairly easily" range (similar to 3.0 => 3.5, maybe a little worse but still definitely a "5.5"). I still think that is...

That works once, for whoever is at the top of any given chain. Doesn't work so well for anyone inheriting from them. How have they made that plain? By producing playtest packets at least as different from 5e as 3.5 was from 3.0? It was pretty clear that the 2024 edition was going to be at...

I think you and I are broadly in agreement on the issues in this thread, but I do feel the need to point out that for the most part only things you actually did are crimes, not things that you thought about doing but did not follow through on. And to the extent that that is not true, it really...

I suspect that the better wording in the BB (I am taking your word for it that it is actually better, as I have not looked at it) is a result of their having written it once before in the CRB (or in some cases possibly twice before counting the playtest). The only problem I can see with it is...

Or even not bother with a VTT at all. My group uses Google Slides for battle maps and Discord+DiceMaiden for everything else. Works like a charm! EDIT: Actually, DiceMaiden has been a bit flaky the last couple of weeks, but hopefully they will get that fixed soon!

No. I said "once" and I meant it. But I will explain for the benefit of anyone else trying to follow our disagreement: The text Snarf Zagyg quotes in the post (EDIT: almost) immediately above mine is about the CC, and has nothing whatsoever to do with OGL 1.0a. I was talking about the latter. A...

Tone can be difficult convey in text, so I will assume (once) that the belittling and high-handedness was accidental and you are actually interested in the answer (no complicated terms necessary, unless you count "deauthorise" and "assurances"): They could have come out with a statement to the...

The irrevocability and safety of the OGL are, in practical if not strictly legal terms, much more in doubt than it was before Christmas. That is a real, material change. Nobody is equating them. Thinking twice about buying a company's products is not the same as sending people to prison for a...

That's not a great example, because the SRD literally says "the vampire Strahd von Zarovich". Overall point still stands though!

Funnily enough, I am also in architecture (although I am an architectural technologist, not an architect). Anyway, the point is that WotC doing the 1.0b things and rereleasing their SRDs under it eliminates (or at least significantly reduces) the threat of their going nuclear lawfare on the OGL...