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Small point, but terminology which annoys every lawyer in the history of ever... illegal: an act which is contrary to the criminal law and for which you can be fined or imprisoned (or both); unlawful: an act contrary to law, be it public or private (including a contract), that is NOT something...

I have no comment on what you may or may not have heard. I didn't hear it, FWIW, but ... ¯\(ツ)/¯

Correct. Which is why the "de-authorize the OGL 1.0a" stuff emerged. It will go nowhere in the end -- and we will be back with a 6e that, consequently, isn't really compatible with 5e - but it looks like it mostly is for marketing purposes. The designers of 6e will be tasked with breaking it...

Given that none of us have seen 6e? Jury is out. In any event, TotM is not what they are selling - I think that much is clear. And when it comes to selling sizzle? That isn't sizzle and it never was. There are some gamers of our generation who are partial to it, but that has never been the...

This isn't about WotC putting out "high-quality material" in the sense of gaming books. That's what you are trying to relate it to - but that isn't what they are doing with DDB subscriptions. This is going to be for access to rules (books) char gen (software) and, above all, a sophisticated 3d...

Given that WoW's monthly pricing hasn't moved in more than a decade (it's currently too low) , and also requires a one-time $60 fee for the current latest expansion (and you get all the previous years content for free).... Yes, this sounds reasonable to me; or in the zone at least. Do the large...

Dude - DDB does this right now and has for years. You don't get homebrew content on DDB without a paid subscription.

Oh come on. This is Master Thespian levels of drama now. $30/ month would be twice the cost of a current WoW subscription (which hasn't moved up in quite a while). It's high, but at $15-$20, we are in the competitive and reasonable zone for a monthly MMO game subscription. DDB doesn't offer...

I think you are reading too much into it. If your intention is to get rid of them both, and it "costs" you another sentence to do so, you do that with simple and unambiguous clarity, specificity and finality.

Assuming (without deciding) that you are correct that neither Weis nor Hickman find it easy to shut up about DL to others when they have some stone in their shoe about it -- and further, that their particular predilection is well known to WotC and the hobby, generally, -- this is why if you are...

We can always quibble about scores and letter grades, but I thought the premise of the article was fair and the likening of Patreon to WotC was not something that was radically out of context. Indeed, given how many patreons are associated with RPGs, it's fair to draw the user apology experience...

I also think that PF2 threads this needle quite well in terms of how it plays, too. So it can be done. The difficulty arises in terms of character generation. PF2 is certainly more complicated than 5e (that's not exactly hard, is it?). It is nowhere near as complicated as it was with PF1. But...

It did, sure. Some did play with mats and minis, though not all THAT often. It was overwhelmingly played as TotM -- even if the origins of the game came from the use of historical medieval minis played on the sand table in Gary's basement -- and on Arneson's ping-pong table on 1" presentation...

I anticipate 5e will fork (and continue), as 3.5 did with PF1. Worse, you'll have every 3pp in the biz jump in and support a new 5.5 fork with adventure and supporting material. The VTTs will support it, all buff and shiny. What if Paizo decides to support a 5.5 fork it with 5.5 statted...

I think the aspect of 4E which informed its design (that was not present in those other games) was the utter dominance of World of Warcraft at the time. That, in turn, had an element of play balance between classes that D&D had never had before. There, the point was to balance the party vs the...

No more for WotC. It doesn't mean I won't go back to PF2 or a new 5.5 fork, but 6th? No. I've left D&D before twice, I can do it a third time, too. I did buy the 4th core rules and we played it once. I bought the 5e core rules, and while I played in the Tyranny of Dragons campaign, I never ran...

The term you were looking for is sub-culture. At WotC the term that has previously been used to describe hardcore gamers is "lifestyle players"

Spell templates, attacks of opportunity? No. When you have AoO and "reactions" hard-coded into combat, it's a grid based game. 5e is a grid based game with simpler character generation than 3.x/PF1/4/PF2. Some might ignore rules in 5e because they want to play it TotM, sure. But by default...

No. There are a LOT of people in this hobby who do that stuff much better than I do. What I will do is buy their products, not WotC's. I've left the D&D brand twice before, a third time is no big deal -- it's how I game. I've played non-D&D branded D&D longer than I ever played TSR or WotC...