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I actually think you have the majority opinion. I don't think the typical gamer cares about the OGL that much. I mean, I used to think it was a cool idea but I came to realize it had flaws (I think WoTC gave away way too much with its GPL like standard), and that I think it inhibited...

I'm going to have to disagree with this, simply for the same reasons I see a rapper sampling a song as less creative as the guy who knows how to play an instrument and actually composes the new music. It is simply much harder to do, and there's more work and sweat involved. I am much more...

Agreed. Software development is hard work, and can be prone to many challenges--missing deadlines, bugs, etc. The Tabletop game design has a slim fraction of the money available to the computer game industry or the software development industry. If you don't have an in-house development...

The OGL part is, I think, really overrated in making the determination. First of all, considering all the changes in the game system, I think that has more of an effect on whether or not players have chosen the game. If you're choosing to play a game solely on how it is licensed, I think...

I'm not sure I'd agree with that because games like Chess and Monopoly have been pretty stable for dozens or hundreds of years. (And yes, I know about the special editions of Monopoly, but those are mostly variations on a theme with many of the same rules). You really don't have to change...

I really don't think the GSL complaints had ANYTHING to do with the edition war. People were arguing over it before anybody even saw the changes to the game. Some of the anger was probably from what I call the "OGL advocates", those that see the OGL as a movement or a virtue in itself rather...

Oh, no, I didn't mean to imply a new game! (There are some unpublished games but I believe he was reworking them to use LA as a base). I meant so far as based on the entire publishing history of Gygax. (If there ever is another printing of LA in the near or far there's always the...

When it comes to the rote mechanics, I agree with what most posters say. AD&D 1e did not feel like a good "let's learn this game". As much as I loved Gary and still love his writing, I don't think he could ever do a very good job of making an easy-to-learn rule set. D&D benefited greatly from...

A Greyhawk Deity of Paladins, Heironeous, originally specialized in the Battleaxe. This was introduced and written by EGG in Dragon, then added to the WoG boxed set. 3e forced him to take up the longsword. But if you are looking for precedent of Holy Weapons not being swords, that's the key one.

TSR's biggest mistake was to do their own comics (which were omitted from the list), in the early 1990s. This made DC a little disappointed with their move and then the whole thing collapsed. While I appreciate the fact that in many instances the same people who write the games and novels...

I wouldn't say its as radical as collecting guitars without ever listening to music, more like listening without playing, that's probably a better analogy. Clearly, I'm not as alone as I thought, and I don't think it strange to read and perhaps do a little "play via imagination", or like...

Necromancer was pretty big in the Heyday of 3e publishing. It's a different case nowadays. Necromancer was able to do the first Tome of Horrors by speaking to WoTC employees who are no longer there. Somewhere along the line I believe WoTC changed from wanting a third-party gaming culture to...

I like the concept of the Bard not just being a singer, but a poet, etc. One thing you might want to get some influence from is modern-day mentalists to get inspiration for how a lot of the bardic powers would work. Perhaps a good template for a Bard might be Derren Brown. If you do a google...

Nice cross-section of responses. I guess I'm a lot like Festivus, because that's a lot of what I do with adventures and source books and the like. For me it's not a temporary thing but rather the whole tabletop experience I think "interferes" with my imagination. It's probably the same reason...

Hello, I was curious about something. I've been a fan of the RPG since I was 10 years old. However, after a few times trying to game, I didn't care for the experience and mostly stuck with reading and (occasionally) writing for games. I found that I enjoyed how they stimulated my...

I contribute to subjects that interest me. I am more interested in reading about OSR than I am about Pathfinder or 4e, so obviously I will probably encounter one type of "zealot" more than another. But I have taken that stance before--I criticized the lynch mob that formed when the Army...

Your statement appears to be one of the hypersensitivity I mentioned before. What you just stated is equivalent to "yeah, well, YOU do it DO!". I'm critical of that behavior no matter what edition it is. However, I expect better of the old school players, because the majority lived during...

Keep in mind when I use the term OSR, I am speaking about what I believe is about it becoming more about advocacy and the "movement" itself than just the simple fact of creating and playing games. Too many people worry about the advocacy part about it--is it growing, who is saying bad things...

I love how the same time people are praising PA for trying the older games there's a bunch of people who are upset that he's "slamming" them. Jeez guys. I like old D&D, but people need to stop getting either fanatical or hypersensitive to this. This is why I think the whole "OSR" thing hurts...

Not to mention the fact that, in addition to the PDF being released before print in a "draft" before you buy it, there have been many previews of the game on the game's web site, they had a sample chapter free on the site, and they are using the FATE system which is covered under an OGL license...