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Initially I read it this way, but I have since come around to the following (though I don't think it was well-articulated in the original post there). Premises: "I think WotC put objectionable, racist content in GAZ10" "I think it's important to do SOMETHING about it." Question for Discussion...

As I mentioned in the thread, I object to (briefly summarized): Action Item #1 - My disagreement on this point boils down to a difference of opinion over whether the existing apology (boilerplate) is enough Action Item #2 - No objection to the idea of donating profits per se, but I cannot...

This is an excellent point and has moved me more strongly towards advocacy for "profits from this product ought to be donated to an appropriate charity" (I won't pretend to have great insight on what specific charity this would be). I think this is the appropriate remedy because I do not feel...

I'm probably going to regret stepping into this thread, but you are raising an issue that is clearly important to you, racism in general is an issue that needs to be discussed, and you deserve to have it met with thoughtful feedback. This is intended as constructive criticism (about tone and...

1. Stronghold Rules - Get characters into the political scene and let them start worrying about running a fort/town/province 2. It's already been mentioned, but Mass Combat rules 3. Jim Holloway-style art where D&D shows it isn't always taking itself too seriously (see the Book of Wondrous...

That is an interesting point, and one of the things that kind of surprised me about Pathfinder 2E was that there were no random ability scores at all - it's completely "build your character from this menu." But now that you mention it, I think you're right... I can't think of a campaign in the...

The bit about foregone conclusions and passive checks is really good advice. Without randomness, the players have no real agency - they were always destined to succeed or fail. Randomness is for drama when there are stakes involved and success or failure SHOULD be up in the air. When you're...

One of the things that bothers me when I hear "swingy" discussed around D&D is that I don't think when you actually look at where the math goes, it's quite as "swingy" as those throwing the term around want you to think. I have heard, for example, that "rolling a d20" is "incredibly swingy"...

I am not a lawyer. This is not legal advice. This is, however, my understanding. One of the things the OGL has that CC does not have is that you can specify Product Identity terms that others are completely forbidden from using in any way in their own works without another license from you. For...

And all along, everyone asking for the OGL 1.0a to be left alone agreed that WotC would be perfectly within their rights to do that. Whether or not that's a good idea for WotC is open for debate.

This is a wholly unexpected but certainly not unwelcome development. I like to think of people - even people that are a work of legal fiction such as corporations - as rational actors. What does this latest development suggest to me? To me it further strengthens the arguments of those that have...

I am not a lawyer. This is not legal advice. I'll just throw the following in here as I haven't seen anyone comment on one particular aspect of things... and that is the way that the OGL functions. As many have noted, it was based on the GPL and when a publisher uses either the OGL or GPL to...

Actually, that's wrong - civil trials can be by jury... I know because a few years ago I served on a jury in a civil trial. Juries are used in both criminal and civil trials; the difference between the two is basically (1) the "prosecutor" in a criminal trial is always the government, (2) only...

I completely disagree that it is "incredibly" reasonable and fair. I will grant that it is more reasonable than the leaked OGL 1.1 draft but the word "incredibly" is not a word I would use to describe it. Even if we were to assume that I was not going to create something racist or offensive...

So, thoughts on my initial read-through: This is better than the leaked draft because it explicitly spells out that the deauthorization only applies to SRD content from WotC. It means other works that published under OGL 1.0a are still licensed under 1.0a. This removes some of the clouds around...

I dunno, I picked up RPGs in the early 80's and I tried a lot of RPGs in the early 90s. While I have fond memories of some of the settings, I have less-fond memories of the mechanics and in fact felt that oftentimes clunky mechanics made an otherwise-interesting setting something I wasn't...

I think Steel_Wind has the correct view here, and I think Joe does a good job of summarizing why the OGL 1.0a is so important here. As things stand today, the SRD for 5e is Open Game Content under the OGL 1.0a. This means anyone can legally copy - and more importantly for creatives - MAKE...

So, let's lighten up the discussion a bit, eh? About four years ago, my oldest son (who knew I played D&D and wrote some self-published stuff in the early 3E days) asked me about D&D because some of his friends at school were interested in it and wanted to play it and possibly start an RPG club...

If it's an argument you're looking for, you're not going to find one here. The ethical way to do this would have been to make OneD&D "just different enough" from 5E that it doesn't alienate the community while leaving material previously released as OGC alone and making it problematic for...

It's not about third-party TTRPG publishers. It's that they are pivoting hard into the subscription-based VTT space with D&D Beyond and need to muscle out the current players that support 5E like FantasyGrounds, Roll20, Foundry, etc. by revoking their ability to support 5E material so that they...