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I didn't say otherwise. It's still probably most people who would do this for a living, rather than a side hobby. And $50k is total revenue, not net. Someone who sold $50k worth of material might be scraping by on $20k personal income, at best. From comments here and there, the profit margin...

The license explicitly says you can't do that. In addition, since they can terminate and update this license at any time, there's the very high possibility that they intend(ed) to reduce that $750k royalty limit. After all, they also demand everyone report all financials if they make over...

The first two pages are intro text. The header for the non-commercial portion of the license is the last line of the 2nd page. The start of the commercial portion of the license is in the middle of the 8th page.

So, there's an error in the termination clause: There are no sections VIII.G or VIII.H. Those are actually VII.G and VII.H (probably). I wonder if that would invalidate their ability to terminate licenses "at their sole discretion", which you cannot contest, and which they are under no...

The thing to keep in mind is that the GPL was designed explicitly with that purpose in mind, but that that isn't the case for most open source licenses (eg: Apache, MIT, BSD, etc), and doesn't seem to be the case in the design of the OGL. As for the OGL, a brief review doesn't seem to carry the...

This actually sounds like they are not only trying to effectively revoke 1.0a, but that they will likely withdraw it as an ongoing offer. Someone in another thread made the analogy of putting up a wanted poster for a lost dog. If you pull the poster down, you are no longer obligated to pay the...

Also, I must add another complaint: the new OGL should not be versioned 1.1. A minor version increase (1.0 to 1.1) indicates adding functionality that is backwards compatible with the previous version. WotC's 1.1 is clearly a breaking change, and thus should have been numbered as 2.0, a major...

Largely nothing for the purposes of our discussion. The GPL, for example, is copyrighted by the Free Software Foundation, but the FSF has no connection to any software that uses the GPL. Most likely the only relevance is that only WotC has the right to edit the content of the document, so...

WotC would have had no incentive to update it based on the changes in 2007, because 2007 was the release of GPL 3. There was a lot of controversy over GPL 3, but its main purpose was in closing loopholes regarding implementing code in hardware (such as router firmware), and patent rights (this...

The global market value of the movies and entertainment market (which includes music and videos) in 2022 is estimated at $95 billion. The global market value of video games in 2022 is estimated at $220 billion. The market value of the global mobile application market in 2022 is estimated at $206...

Ah, go look up the Oracle vs Google lawsuit over Java APIs. It was a headache and a half, because if Oracle won it would have destroyed most software interoperability as we know it. If Google thought Hasbro's actions threatened to create another such situation (suit filed for $8.8 billion...

Pretty much, yep. Kendra tried to present a credible threat, and that threat failed because it wasn't as credible as she thought it would be. In the same vein, if she'd tried to bend the poker but failed, it would also not be intimidating. Neither case relies on Charisma. As for stat...

Ah, yes, the intimidation tactics of the Karen. And it's a legitimate variant. There's a constant mental pressure being applied, and Strength certainly has nothing to do with it; it's force of personality, which I guess would fall under Charisma. I still think the advantage/disadvantage on...

On the mechanics side of things, I had issue with how Intimidation interacts with the normalized Influence rules. First, there's the old issue with tying Intimidation to Charisma. In some senses it works, but in others it really doesn't. The other Charisma skills — Deception, Persuasion, and...

It works if it's just, "Choose what kind of creature you are", but not as a noun.

The thread exploded, so I'm skipping a lot of pages, but... This changes my view of the initial question a bit. If it had been a contact poison on a chest in a dungeon, I would absolutely believe the character should have been wearing gloves. However a hatbox suggests an indoor setting, perhaps...

I went with Kind as my first choice. Not as, "What is your Kind?" — using the term as an explicit designator — but as in, "What kind of creature are you?" A simple, natural, inoffensive question because it's used as an adjective, not a noun. I still think Species is the worst possible choice in...

I would say not so much revisionist as subject to refactoring. A certain tool (race) has been accumulating stuff for a long time, and is currently a bucket of traits that are a mix of inherent/biological and social/cultural. There are a lot of reasons to want to make use of those trait...

There was a thread on the Monstrosity category a while back that showed a lot of people had issues with it, and it seems to always be a bit of a grab-bag of stuff that didn't fit elsewhere. The main definition that seemed to be of use was "a creature that only came into existence due to the...

I'd considered that, but it's a technical term which excludes numerous playable races. Fey (eg: eladrin, centaurs) are not humanoids, nor are goblinoids and monstrosities (eg: minotaurs), etc, which is why I listed them as examples in the earlier post I made. If not for that, it would have been...