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Sure, I'm overly wordy as usual (just ask my family! :ROFLMAO:) But I would further addendum "for D&D" and absolutely agree! The D&D OGL landscape and the Pathfinder OGL landscape have operated very differently and largely independently of each other over the years. It did get airborne, but it...

That's another historical difference. During 3.0, those publishers were heavily shamed by other OGL publishers. (Not that it ever really changed their behavior, unfortunately). Now, however, it's common standard for 5e (not PF 1&2, mind you) to even go so far as "Only what is OGC via the SRD is...

Early on it absolutely did, especially with certain products. Pathfinder 1, in particular, even massively benefited from several monster books and a few others. But there have been many products that were cited by other OGL publishers. On the D&D side, however, that initial wave of OGL...

The SRD under CC-BY-4.0 allows it to be used with the OGL, but not necessarily the other way around. So adding the 5.2 SRD to OGL is moot if it is CC-BY. OGL publishers will need to make sure you include both citations - proper OGL declaration with updated Section 15 and OGC declaration AND the...

Unless that was a trial run for Clint_L's #4 - How much of a PR hit would it be? Pretty easy to not include that option on an earlier book while the new Marketplace is being developed and see if the PR hit is bad enough while there is still time to alter course. Apparently, the complaints were...

Looking at your profile pic, that is an awfully nice hat. So I hope our hats remain uneaten! ;)

That's it! No more WotC for me!!! They've gone too far! (Runs off to film a 60-minute rant for YouTube) ;) Unfortunately, things like that tend to be more of the start-up kind of culture that corporations smother out. :( On the one hand, it's not a big deal. But on the other hand, it's a...

They no longer support them in the Marketplace unless I'm missing something. This was a redesign of the Marketplace. Not of the Compendium, Character Builder, or any of the rest of the site. So, of course, they are still supported in those areas because nothing changed there.

If there was a way to verify this, I could bet real money on the reasoning behind removing the a la carte options was more or less the following: Redesigning the Marketplace was a large enough re-build of the old one that supporting a la carte options in the new Marketplace would be a decent...

Citation needed. One thing that watching online discussion of this industry over the past few decades has taught me (including with how wide the reach of the OGL fiasco wound up being) is that forum posters citing how large they think certain subgroups are typically has zero actual evidence...

Exactly. Now marketing to Wall Street is another matter (although I doubt that's the case here without a clearer message behind it). But, yeah, thinking this has anything whatsoever to do with influencing customer opinions is laughably wrong.

Not to continue this tangent, but there is a massive difference between the fact that WE know they are clear of any IP and the level of management that likely got massively chewed out for releasing "Strahd" and such knowing that comfortably enough to sign off on it. They likely set up an overly...

No need to go into detail since sometimes things happen and they have otherwise done very well (so I don't want to slam them for 1 bad product they had out of the many other solid ones in a promo thread for them!), but hopefully you got an updated version. The initial release needed more much...

Dark Souls was definitely a low point, and I've found their other game development to be uneven but passable in quality (some is great, some just ok), however in this case they are taking Kobold Press's existing system and presenting it as a Starter Set. So this is much more about presenting...

I am fully, 1000% supportive of therapy and absolutely do NOT think anyone can be a therapist. Also, RPGs can definitely be used effectively in therapy sessions. That being said, not everything that calls itself therapy is therefore a good thing. I'm not trained in therapy, but from my...

I was curious and did some digging, but the actual lawsuit seems to only be accessible behind a Pacer login. However, in the search it turns up that this isn't Bean's first lawsuit. If I understand correctly, it seems he originally tried to launch his "certification" services under the name...

Bob World Builder made a nice video covering the character class & ancestry options at a GenCon demo game he was in complete with some actual stats. Many will surely change (a couple things were literally hand-written on index cards) but it's a nice preview of the general direction they are...

Wow, I know this thread has suddenly become just responding to you, but I gotta say it's amazing how you simply fixated on one particular word out of her post and completely ignored everything else she said, and thereby completely, utterly missing the point. You described a situation that you...

Yep! Plus it's not like they don't have a track record of these exact same products for past adventures. I could probably guess the contents right now with about 90% accuracy. I'm a bit torn on this oddly because I have several and absolutely LOVE Beadle & Grimm's products, but I'm actually...

You and everyone who has studied ethics rejects that as well! Just because some issues are debatable doesn't mean there is no consensus on anything at all. Sure, there can be reasonable debate on how serious these accusations are, but something like "Is not paying your employees bad?" isn't...