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  1. kenmarable

    Planescape Planescape IS D&D Says Jeremy Crawford

    And I'm willing to bet that is still how it will be. (Especially since they have been explicitly saying that for a couple years at least.) If anything this supports that even more if they don't have FR (or Tolkein-with-numbers-filed-off) versions of all the races/species, for example. Right...
  2. kenmarable

    Survey: RPG play up 37% since pandemic, interest in D&D up 85%

    Also, I'm confused about their claim that WotC revenue increased by 46% since 2020 when their chart definitely does NOT show that (unless there was a massive drop between 2019 and 2020, which I doubt). There was a 46% increase from 2016 to 2022, which is still impressive but tracks much more to...
  3. kenmarable

    D&D 5E (2014) D&D's Classic Settings Are Not 'One Shots'

    FWIW, they won't be official, high production value WotC releases, but I will say that many of us have been veeeeerrrryyy eager for Planescape to open up on DMs Guild and are well aware of the major gaps WotC has left, such as a Manual of the Planes. I know quite a few people with things in the...
  4. kenmarable

    D&D 5E (2014) Glory of the Giants' AI-Enhanced Art

    My point isn't about who was at fault and I tried to leave that open (maybe the movie analogy failed but that's the problem with analogies). The comment I was replying to was the claim that since April was paid for the concept art then "the deal is done" - implying it's acceptable to run her...
  5. kenmarable

    D&D 5E (2014) Glory of the Giants' AI-Enhanced Art

    It's not that simple. There's still a lot of questions around the dinosaur image, but what people are worried about is they hired April to do concept art, credited her as a concept artist, and compensated her as a concept artist, then IF someone else fed that concept art into an AI engine and...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Bigby's Big Book of Giants

    Yes, it certainly isn't all AI art since there are a lot of other credited artists beyond that one person. The various images posted around seem to be related to the frost giants, as well as at least one of the dinosaurs. Many are pointing out that the dinosaur image in particular looks an...
  7. kenmarable

    D&D 5E (2014) Bigby's Big Book of Giants

    Sadly, there are a lot more images popping up on social media that are pretty obviously AI art + some manual editing (but not near enough to, say, give giants the proper number of toes, or have an archer actually have a hand that is holding a bow rather than some misshapen blob at the end of...
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    Planescape Planescape Pre-order Page Shows Off The Books!

    If I recall, basically, under the originally published 5e rules, ships drop out of their fast speed (100 million miles per 24 hours) to their slow speed (4 mph or so) when coming within the air envelope of another large object. With air envelopes as wide again as the object, a 5,000-mile...
  9. kenmarable

    Planescape Planescape Pre-order Page Shows Off The Books!

    Or when they were just copy-and-pasting the old 2e rules, copied the whole thing rather than only part of it. These weren't even new flying rules to playtest, it was just the same old 2e stuff ported over, but leaving out a pretty important piece.
  10. kenmarable

    Planescape Planescape Pre-order Page Shows Off The Books!

    And plane-by-plane massive charts of spell changes, magic weapons and armor decreasing in power when taken to a different plane from where they were forged, and on and on. (I remember PCs needing their Abyssal sword for getting past Tanar'ri resistance, their Baatoran sword for Baatezu, and so...
  11. kenmarable

    Planescape Planescape Pre-order Page Shows Off The Books!

    Yes, but "planar products" and Planescape are certainly not equivalent, even if the separation is blurry. They are two circles that overlap without a clear boundary, but they are very far from being the same circle. There is a ton of interesting lore to build off of in the Planescape setting...
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    Planescape Planescape Pre-order Page Shows Off The Books!

    Quite the contrary - it sets up inherent conflict in the Gate Towns and the books often included ways the PCs could be recruited by the various parties to try to influence it.
  13. kenmarable

    Planescape Planescape Pre-order Page Shows Off The Books!

    Exactly. It's called the Hinterlands and is only mentioned a few times in PS products but the only actual info is in Player's Primer to the Outlands (couple short paragraphs in the book, and an audio clip). But it is stated that the Outlands are infinite in size and continue beyond the Gate...
  14. kenmarable

    The Final Open RPG Creator (ORC) License Is Here!

    They never denied the leaks about it being a part of the draft OGL 1.1, and in the draft OGL 1.2 that they publicly released, it is specifically mentioned in there (bottom of the second page).
  15. kenmarable

    The Final Open RPG Creator (ORC) License Is Here!

    Seeing as how so many 3pp's can't even manage a simple OGL Section 15 properly, this sounds like a trainwreck in the making of further downstream products poisoning the OGL and ORC wells with incorrectly mingled content. Even if it is a legally viable hack (and I'd certainly get a lawyer's...
  16. kenmarable

    The Final Open RPG Creator (ORC) License Is Here!

    Guess I was too brief. I was talking about downstream publishers. Products like adventures, settings, etc. for multiple game systems - some of which are OGL and some are ORC (or even other licenses). This is what I'm working on - adventures for D&D, PF (esp before Remastered), A5E, etc. I...
  17. kenmarable

    The Final Open RPG Creator (ORC) License Is Here!

    No, you cannot mingle them. I wish you could, but there's no legal way to do that. If you use another publisher's OGL content, you cannot publish it under ORC. Same if you use another publisher's ORC content, you cannot publish it under the OGL. As a downstream publisher, the licenses are...
  18. kenmarable

    The Final Open RPG Creator (ORC) License Is Here!

    As others have said, other publishers not using the CC-BY 5e license has no impact whatsoever on WotC's bottom line. However, I think you might be saying something more like lack of use of WotC's CC-BY content is an indirect barometer for how robust the third party market is which is an indirect...
  19. kenmarable

    The Final Open RPG Creator (ORC) License Is Here!

    Correct. They just have to VERY careful about what sources they use if they are reusing content. For example, I’m planning on releasing multiple versions of the stuff I’m working on for different licenses & games. But I need to triple check not to mingle OGL and ORC content. If it’s a standalone...
  20. kenmarable

    Gloomhaven RPG Crowdfunder Hits $1M In First Hours

    Exactly! Not sure what kind of world it is where a company in a small industry like this can make well over a million dollars in a single day with name recognition alone is an example of "amazingly bad" marketing??!! Plenty of companies wish their own marketing was that bad! :ROFLMAO:
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