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  1. kenmarable

    Renegade Studios Sends C&D To Stop Small Creator Using The Word 'Renegade'

    True, although to be honest, even if it was Renegade Studio’s idea, the law firm won’t be hurt by it at all, and likely got more than the usual number of billable hours out of it! After all, it's not like their reputation has taken a hit here, just Renegade Game Studios'.
  2. kenmarable

    Renegade Studios Sends C&D To Stop Small Creator Using The Word 'Renegade'

    I hope any lawyers who advised you that this was legally necessary charged discount rates. This is actually somehow even more nonsensical than the previously assumed reasoning and I'd hate to think you paid full price for that legal advice! :ROFLMAO:
  3. kenmarable

    Renegade Studios Sends C&D To Stop Small Creator Using The Word 'Renegade'

    Also add in the fact that looking at their product catalog, they have exactly ZERO products with the word "Renegade" in the title. In fact, the only time that word ever appears on a product is only tiny in the corner and always as part of the Renegade Game Studios logo. (As if the evidence...
  4. kenmarable

    TSR NuTSR Declares Bankruptcy

    Wait, are you saying that the guy whose biggest political donors just happened to be several people with names one letter different from his might have some questionable business dealings??? 😂
  5. kenmarable

    Paizo Posts New Draft of ORC License

    Oh, exactly, I agree! But with OGL usage in practice, even 23 years ago, you need the OGC declaration to understand what is open. You could never just check the PI declaration (which is actually optional) and then presume about the rest. That was never accepted industry practice even back in the...
  6. kenmarable

    Paizo Posts New Draft of ORC License

    But to know what's open, you also need the OGC declaration: So the entire thing except for the World-Building chapter, and stuff outside statblocks of the Friends & Foes chapter. But it's still evidence to what you said, back in the day, games were (generally) far more open, and it does seem...
  7. kenmarable

    Paizo Posts New Draft of ORC License

    I'll just note that seeing several publishers and content creators very angrily calling out WotC during the OGL Fiasco and changing their avatars to "Open DnD" while simultaneously opening up little to none of their own content by using highly restrictive OGC declarations that back in the 3.x...
  8. kenmarable

    Paizo Posts New Draft of ORC License

    Yep! I agree 100%, and the ORC FAQ even explicitly mentions that as one of the motivations now. Unfortunately, when some people want to debate on the internet, it doesn't matter whether it's a silly argument to make or not. ;)Sometimes it seems the only "win" they are interested in is drowning...
  9. kenmarable

    Paizo Posts New Draft of ORC License

    I think the biggest improvements are in the AxE (FAQ), and overall I'm certainly happy with both and very excited for them to be official soon! There was a vocal minority in the ORC Discord that were pushing to have the viral aspects of the license removed, but I'm very glad Azora and Paizo...
  10. kenmarable

    WotC WotC'S May Community Update Talks School Support, Accessibilty, & Creator Marketplaces

    Plus it is far more than just a simple matter of excessive load. Load is the easiest thing to account for, even if it isn't always feasible/worthwhile to manage. Vastly expanding the number of users is also more ways they will try to use it, more people with a wider variety of ideas pushing it...
  11. kenmarable

    WotC WotC'S May Community Update Talks School Support, Accessibilty, & Creator Marketplaces

    Exactly! As a programmer, opening a completely new system built entirely in-house that is unlike anything you have built before and then allowing others to add content to it via a marketplace by first opening it up to literally everyone and anyone all at once is very, very much not the "safer"...
  12. kenmarable

    RPG Crowdfunding News – Secrets of the Greenwold, NEUROCITY, Vagabond, and more

    Plus doing that on Kickstarter rather than DMs Guild, especially with a tagline like that, is really asking for a nastygram from WotC.
  13. kenmarable

    D&D 5E (2024) New One D&D Playtest Includes 5 Classes & New Weapon Mastery System

    Funny how reading the document helps answer some questions. :ROFLMAO:
  14. kenmarable

    D&D 5E (2024) New One D&D Playtest Includes 5 Classes & New Weapon Mastery System

    Possibly, but it's also been that way for 9 years with 5e. Current PHB has always had the Attack action allowing you to make an attack. They are also consistent in being "Attack action" as a whole phrase, not just "Attack" and "attack." I just mentioned the capitalization to make it clearer. But...
  15. kenmarable

    D&D 5E (2024) New One D&D Playtest Includes 5 Classes & New Weapon Mastery System

    The equip/unequip is only part of the Attack action (capital 'A' since it's the name of an action). The Light property allows you to make one extra attack (small 'a'), not an extra Attack action. So the bonus action attack does not include the free equip/unequip no more than it includes the...
  16. kenmarable

    Release [Chaosium] Create. Explore. Play. BRP’s Universal Game Engine is available royalty-free for personal and commercial use under the ORC license.

    Suggestion - would it also be possible to have text in addition to the logo as means to credit? I know it would help with accessibility, at least.
  17. kenmarable

    Open RPG Creative (ORC) License Draft Published

    Plus, back in the early days of the OGL the general consensus among publishers was that content derived from OGC was automatically OGC. So if you made a d20 monster stat block or a prestige class, they had to be OGC since they were derived from the d20 SRD rules for those. (You could claim the...
  18. kenmarable

    WotC D&D Direct—Video Event From WotC Coming Next Week

    Iron Gods? Back in PF1 era, it was one of the more popular ones, from what I recall. Since PF2, I don't know, I've been out of the loop. And, it would be great for Blackmoor to get it's due. I don't want to be dismissive of it. But when it comes to popularity, it's never caught on (or...
  19. kenmarable

    WotC D&D Direct—Video Event From WotC Coming Next Week

    And, honestly, except for a small subset of grognards, it dropped out of memory/interest long, long ago. My friends and I started playing in 1983 and we were only dimly aware of it. Nearly all of my current group started playing mid-80s to late-90s and I don't think any of them even know what it...
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