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Isn't there cleric spells that give you food and water and the like? It seems so easy to overlook magic and yet take a rather stern approach to economics and quality of life. If someone can make a fireball or horde of minions, then that seems like the first place to start asking questions. The...

Thanks Morrus. This is all very interesting to know. Very helpful.

Essentially carbon copies I could see being easy to take down in court. But what if you start changing the way the money is generated? What about different paths? What if each token did something unique? The way of moving would be roll 2d6 and go, but what if there was MORE to the game? What if...

That makes things much clearer Jeremy, thanks for the post. Again, I seriously am not making a game as of this point, but if I were I would not want to be subject to anything other than my own imagination and experiences of gaming. It's not a matter of using the OGL because then you can do...

If the OGL IS sharing of mechanics, thats why this posts exists. Many said that mechanics can't be copyrighted but the presentation of them can. Which is why I asked about changing the names etc etc. The OGL is another person's license. You are bound by the OGL and all the legalese that comes...

Why would someone NOT want to use the OGL? Because of legal issues, screwing up in some small part and being slapped with a C&D? Forgetting to reference something. Also if you were going to entirely create a game from the ground up and use no references other than mechanics there seems to be no...

To be fair though, one is a must have core rulebook while the other is a splatbook about monsters, when paizo already has 3 monster manuals out.

So question, say (hypothetically of course) a person was creating their own game but they start using the rules of 5e or 3.5 (I'm assuming material from 5e would be justified using OGL which may not be the case). What changes would one have to make to the system to define it as their own game...

So basically its hard so why try? I'm also not a fan of the "Be quiet, we'll tell you what you want when we say so." It's a valid business practice for sure, but a game built around the community and interaction of the community it seems quite ... odd.. to take a hands off approach. They...

Right, but it's not the final version right? Still at 0.2? A final version usually ends with version 1.0 etc. It's been 4 months since that dropped. Is that the final update? If so why is it still at version 0.2?

I think the people talking about WOTC's future and "vision" are right. They don't seem to have any beyond "Don't release a lot of splats". Paizo knew what they were doing with their line long before their playtest was over. They knew release schedule of their APs and their actual core rules only...

Please guys, can just this one topic not turn into a flaming troll fest? I want to read more of the posts....

Please for the love of god link these 5e guidelines! PLEASE! I want to follow them, show me where they are and I'll be HAPPY to follow them!!

Pretty much this for me. I sure would like to know what I can and can't do with this system and sharing my stuff. It's not good to be in a state of constant fear making a private blog for your friends, or wanting to work on a PDF to sell. I want to be a contributing member of the community. I...

This is a fantastic thread. I can't wait to see more.

So, wizards took down his pathfinder program too? To be clear, I'm making sure this is WOTC and not Paizo who issued the C&D. I need to make sure I shape my views around the deserving company who did this.

I imagine they look like ditto from pokemon.

I don't know of any specific settings but I have run homebrew with Humans as the only race. I really enjoyed it because I still had elves and dwarves and all the rest, but they were encountered VERY rarely so they felt much more special than they usually would.

They shouldn't have released this edition if they had no clue how they were going to handle fan creations. Hell we don't actually even know what licensing they are giving to other companies. As far as I can tell it's all under the table. We know they are having other companies make stuff like...

I've been here a while, but I don't read every single thing. I have not heard this spring announcement. You shouldn't assume everyone has and if you can't prove it then why say it? Also it may take a while, in that case they shouldn't have released it before they had all of their ducks in a row...