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As others have mentioned TV/Movie/book/comic are all already scripted media. Pnp RPGs isn't scripted, that is the whole point. As a DM I might portray the evil torturer or slaver, but I have a different investment into my Player Character. If I was playing an evil torturer or slaver as a PC that...

Maybe it's because English isn't my native language, but as quoted AMU appears to be going back on it's 'word', but I assume there is a contract in place with legal options to get out of the contractual relationship and those exit options have been used. In my book, that means (legal)...

I was around in gaming since 1987-1988, so yeah I know of the the "Kindred: The Embraced" (1996). Honestly it was horrible! It was 8 episodes, they only showed 7 and it was cancelled. As I was playing Vampire: The Masquarade at the time, I found it completely lacking the atmosphere of VtM, some...

That was Dungeon #95, the first Dungeon under Paizo publication at the time (95-150), marked on the front page as "Sex, drugs & demon lords". It was a sealed adventure that tied in with the Book of Vile Darkness release, pretty much the only 'mature' D&D book at that time... I suspect that that...

In the past White Wolf had a couple of imprints, one was: The title that reminds me the most of this brand was: HoL (Human occupied Landfill), but there are more notorious books under that imprint. But White Wolf was already pretty niche, dark and horrific, especially when their most popular...

The issue is not 'risk of controversy' in general, it is 'risk of controversy' for large and growing brands by large companies. WotC is huge, Paizo is probably the next largest pnp RPG company and something like Star Wars RPG might be big, but it also needs to be approved by Disney. They stopped...

While I agree that WotC has moved into a position in the market that will result them making products that might no longer appeal to 'older' D&D fans (they already have from my perspective). And we should look at others to fill in the gaps. Your premise is a bit faulty, because others insist...

'Perfectly fine' it is not, but as with anything, it depends on your audience and how you use it. In DS it's pretty much baked into the part of the setting of the Evil city states, without those, there is imho very little left of DS. DS is an Evil setting in a different way that Ravenloft is an...

I really like Forgotten Realms because it has been so fleshed out, but still huge and allows you to do your own thing without much effort. Back in them olden days when Jim Butler's company scanned and sold all the D&D books for $2.99/book I bought pretty much everything and created a FR pdf...

I think Morrus/Umbran brought up good points why at this scale it is a good idea to have the ability of '+' threads. But I think there's an issue with the assumption that if asked for an 'argument' (as Umbran said), you don't have to participate. We're constantly accosted by the same argument...

You mean a single D&D board with 239,943 members? The original thread had 235 replies and 12k views, this one has 327 replies and 9k views... No matter how you view it, 14 petitioners is then a very small number of people that were bothered enough to sign it. I do think that there are more...

I do not think that this issue is 'caused' by modern copyright law. There's a restriction for sure and it would only wind up in the public domain in the US in 2083 (if nothing changes). But there's been fan created content for decades, even now with the OGL and DMs Guild, people still create fan...

Now I'm confused... On one hand it's important enough to do something about it even though it's a product about pretending to be elves. On the other hand it wouldn't be important enough to preserve because it's a product about pretending to be elves. Imho the importance here isn't in the...

For D&D it's been the case for over 20 years for older works (that don't have any copyright anymore) we have things like Project Gutenberg. The issue is with books that still have copyright, but are no longer available in print or digital is getting smaller and smaller. The issue is not...

I find the 'banning' (taken out of sale) or rewriting old documents a huge problem. That's bleaching the past imho. We might still know why it was rewritten, but in a generation or two people won't and that might be bad. Anywhere from repeating the past to denying the past. Leaving old...

That video wasn't linked in the first post or the linked product page. I agree that the video gave a far better visual indication of the size then the product page. That product info is what's being copied in webstores, the images with the dimensions is all the way to the bottom of the image...

People are 3D printing houses, so that's no indication of size. As for falsehood, there are smaller chests, just not the size of chest most of the HeroQuest/D&D crowd thinks about... So lifesize is accurate, but they are just messing with our expectations, as I suspect that most sales will...

Why relieved? I agree, that the 5E settings books are a huge disappointment when looking from a 2E or 3E perspective. But let's be honest, the 4E stuff was already not great, the 5E stuff being even further off and having been dunked into the Cauldron of Blandness isn't surprising in the least...

Monopoly might be making significantly more then D&D. Some other properties might also fall into that category, depending on how you count those properties... If you add license fees for D&D socks to the pile of revenue WotC makes, how would you treat a Star Wars IP? Let's say all the physical...

LMAO is the only response to this. It's meaningless and self-contradictory dime-store/cod philosophy, and that's the kindest thing I can say about it. ;) There's a difference between a legal construct and emotions, nowhere in the definition of corporate personhood does it assign emotions to a...