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That is another purpose of trademark law, and I did oversimplify. But now you are oversimplifying in the much more dangerous direction. Yes you can reference a trademark to indicate compatibility, but if the trademark owner picks a fight with you it becomes an issue for a court to decide whether...

Alright, so with today's unexpectedly generous Creative Commons SRD announcement, I am now full gear building a 5e clone (name as yet to be determined). I'm sure I'm not the only one around here. But one core question of class (and monster and everything) design and balance is how many attacks...

To the people using and purchasing 5.1 SRD derived products "5e compatible" is the thing that will actually soon come to make something marketable. There's no legitimate reason why someone would want to sew confusion by unnecessarily referencing "Wizard's of the Coast" and their "Dungeons and...

Looks really cool. As someone who runs games for kids in the summer under super informal circumstances I'm always looking for ways to simplify. I particularly like the unified "lore" skill check. Be aware that you are 100% using WotC's trademarked D&D ampersand logo and arguably also using...

I'll say I was a little bit in the "let WotC burn down" camp (and I'm a Hasbro stockholder!). It's not that WotC has, on the whole, mishandled D&D. It's that IP law favors the rightsholders too much and the public too little, and whenever something based around some business's copyright or...

I'm going to invite my D&D group to see the movie, rather than go on my own in quiet shame. And we're probably going to remain a D&D group, even if that never involves 5.5. I'm also going to keep working on my 5e clone. I will say the prior floated offer of just the core rules section of the...

Well, not to uncleanse your palate, but I do feel it's worth mentioning that the 5e formulation of alignment (and hence the broad concept) was officially added to the creative commons today, which is kind of a big deal in terms of everyone being able to (with unambiguous legal protection)...

While I guess it's possible someone was asked to check that there was no high priority, protectable IP that could be removed quickly and unobtrusively and they just did a fantastically terrible job, I think quickly CCing a basically untampered-with SRD was deemed a necessary olive branch, and...

Today is a fantastic day for D&D as a folk tradition. I don't think it's particularly clear that a mention of a character in creative commons allows free use of that character as characterized in other copyrighted materials. Copyright protection against characters being used in other works...

If I was hombrewing content for a game and it is something relatively close to standard, RAW, of that game, and I wanted the most precise technical treatise on the ramifications of everything my homebrew did vis-à-vis the game, rules as written, including every scrap of obscure official content...

I once had a 5e PC roll double nat 20s at disadvantage in a contested roll against an NPC who also got a nat 20. I ended up ruling in favor of the PC, because it was more fun that way and felt more fair given that they had pulled off a 1 in 400 feat to the NPCs 1 in 20, but it was nice to have...

Slightly, but having bought PHBs for an outdoor Summer camp I've accepted that some of them are not long for this world.

Okay, well for anyone who like me was on the fence about clicking because it looks like it's going to be someone doing shtick for 5 minutes with a static camera set-up, it is, but most the shtick was actually pretty funny.

If you are a 13 year old wanting to play D&D you either join a game by someone already experienced in it, who is often older and in many cases will not be getting you plugged into the digi-D&D experience, or you buy the materials hoping to get a group together, during which time, if you have...

I think you actually nailed exactly why the equally valiant sacrifice of citizens of Thespiae at Thermopylae is almost never mentioned. Once your name is completely associated with one thing in historical memory, tough luck getting noticed for anything else. At least the people of Lesbos get...

I am a fan of the livestreams, and came to accept both names in their original contexts. From the perspective of marketing their "all professional voice actors" gimmick in the early days of the livestream, Vox Machina was a solid name, even if said meta reference in Latin made no in-world sense...

Don't get caught in a landslide here.

Finally finished it. So I think I would like this series a lot better if it wasn't a Willow sequel. I grew to like all the characters well enough eventually, and while I think it would still be a little tonally inconstant, I think oddball or mismatched jokes, musical cues, etc. wouldn't be as...

My first response is that I utterly don't care in the slightest. But, upon further reflection, part of why I don't care in the slightest is because red carpet events so rarely make a point of honoring the underappreciated creative people who laid the groundwork upon which movies are built...

My understanding is that he also disliked shaving his head.