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I mostly use Midjourney to create quick illustrations of locations characters encounter. Here are some examples, showing different moods:

Thank you very much. This ensures that 5e will survive in some form for a decade or more. Between this, the WoTC SRD, and the Black Flag SRD, we'll have a wealth of options to choose from. There are plenty of hints the upcoming D&D revision in 2024 will be accompanied by a change in business...

Black Flag is closer to a "vanilla" 5e experience, while Advanced 5e is a little bit more crunchy. It does have some very interesting rules variants though and the monster statblocks are far superior to anything produced by WoTC

Between this and the Advanced 5e SRD, we are very close to having a drop-in replacement for 'official" 5e supporting a wide range of play styles.

This is an amazing development. Can you give us any hints of how it will differ from the big gold book? Also, do we have any idea when the terms of the ORC licence will be released?

I'm mostly using AI to automate some of the drudgery. For example, I am generating a subsector for a Cepheus Engine game and am using ChatGPT to help me randomly design each inhabited system. Consider the following prompt: The output is something like this: I then follow this up with a...

I suspect most companies will be cautious until the legal and ethical implications are sorted out. As with any new technology, this may take a few years. In the longer term, I suspect AI will be used to enhance human capabilities rather than to replace them. We are already seeing this trend...

The term MInd Flayer is trademarked in the US and Europe....but not by WoTC. Someone named Lu Guoping from Jiangxi Province in China trademarked the term in August 2021 in connection with: The trademark was approved in the US on 14 June 2022.

One reason we have contracts and licensing is to ensure participants can work together without total trust. A solid agreement protects the interests of both sides. The issue here is that Hasbro's interests are changing because D&D is on the verge of releasing a Hollywood blockbuster. This...

If the terms of the OGL v1.0a are enforceable, trust is irrelevant. Both parties must comply with the contractual obligations created by that agreement. WotC may have legal advice indicating they can exploit the loophole in the update mechanism to negate the licence. Or - more likely IMHO - they...

They are within their rights to introduce a new license for 1D&D. Nobody disputes that. The issue is the extent they are disrupting existing publishing arrangements. I think they have lost sight of the value of the OGL to their business. Back in the 1980s and 1990s there was a proliferation of...

There's also the issue that games completely unrelated to D&D that used the OGL are still screwed. In some cases, the original publisher is still around and can update the license. But this is not always the case - consider Open Game Content such as the Action System from Gold Rush Games or the...

If WoTC argue they have the power to unilaterally revoke OGL v1.0a, doesn't that change the scope of the copyright claim too? The OGL places limits on how licensees can use content. But if that doesn't apply, the rules are different too. Aren't they?

It might be worth putting together a project to contact the various RPG companies who released stuff under the OGL that is not derivative of WoTC IP. The project should ask them whether they are willing to release them under a different licence - probably either ORC or Creative Commons. Having a...

Yeah. I've tried reaching out as I have an upcoming project that uses some content from the Action System. But I haven't had a reply. If you have contact with him, ask him if he'd be willing to dual licence the system under Creative Commons or the upcoming ORC licence.

I would make the distinction that this is about the public policy statements of WoTC. It has nothing to do with the personalities within WotC. They might be nice people or they might not be. Heck, Cynthia Williams might be lovely in person for all I know. This is solely about a bad policy. Let's...

This isn't an edition war. This is about the survival of most RPG publishers. There is little room for compromise when facing an existential threat to the entire industry. This removes about 60% of RPGs from sale, including many unrelated to D&D. This is because they touched the OGL at some...