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I put it to you that the Great Dividing Line above is: Grid based combat vs. Theater of the mind based combat You can come up with a great long list and none of those things hint at a real separator in terms of how combat flows and how the game is actually played, until you get to that one...

If you could do DragonLance -- I think you would to at least consider doing that at the top of your list. Is is the best and most-popular story that TSR and WotC has ever told. The things that made it not a great setting (doesn't work for generic all that well) and railroady to play -- are...

I started with OD&D even before that, in 1977. Admittedly, not as hard core as it became in the summer of 1980. But I left 1st ed in 1984 for Rolemaster. I skipped 2nd ed in its entirety. Came back with 3.0 in 2000 - jumped to PF1 in 2009, to PF2 when that came out, and just to 5e last March...

Or, indeed, control it at all. It's to be held by a non-profit - acting under direction of the non-profit's board of directors, and administered by a law firm. It's being set up that way so that what somebody suggests Paizo could "just do" is exactly what they will not be able to "just do".

What ARE you talking about? The point was simple: WotC is most unlikely to have presented a contract under NDA to Paizo. They had no need to - Paizo was not one of the 3pp making products for them (which is what the 1.1 OGL was about - in the sense of why one would ever sign it). Paizo was their...

This misses out over what Paizo explained at the time. They came out with Pathfinder AP for 3.5 because they had not other choice; they needed a product line and Mona didn't want to fire anybody who worked for Paizo. During the course of that initial 9 months, they were asking WotC to provide...

No. I do not believe Paizo was ever offered that deal. Paizo has hundreds and hundreds of products in its PF1/PF2 catalog. Only one of them -- out of all of those products, is a 5th edition book (the Kingmaker 5e Bestiary) . The idea that they would "certainly" be among those companies is...

Honestly? No, I don't think so. The decision to proceed to litigation, if required, may have been discussed notionally before starting ~10 days ago when the Gizmodo story came out, but the ORC stuff was made up on-the-fly during the course of this week, largely as a result or Erik Mona seeing...

This is not accurate. There are 600,000,000 issued common shares in Hasbro, and each share has a vote, in the ordinary way. It would be unusual for this to be otherwise in a publicly traded company in respect of common shares. Their Form 8-A is here.

This is not accurate. Traditional toys make up about 75-80% of Hasbro's revenue (~3.7 billion). WotC is about 1 to 1.1billion. But when it comes to profits, WotC's profit margin is about 46% of its revenues, and 70% of Hasbro's profit. M:TG and 5e are both extremely profitable compared to the...

Two 5e campaigs via Foundry VTT, running on alternating weekends for two separate groups: Rime of the Frostmaiden - about 2/3rds of the way done; Shadow of the Dragon Queen - just starting The plan is to finish RotFM by late spring or early summer, and that will move on to a 5e Classic...

If you are looking for greater insight from such pieces than has been available on ENWorld for the past week, the expectations that will be met are low. For one, this stuff is complicated, even for lawyers. It takes time and a fair bit of detail and effort to wade through it all. For another...

Perhaps. I think it is certainly true that these things have a cadence and cycle to them those of us in the law can ignore as we are frequently distracted by logic, process, doctrine, and minutiae in our analyses. It is what we do, after all; lawyers gonna lawyer. However, all of these things...

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Some may have done so for all we know. Speculation at this point on the matter, in the absence of further evidence, amounts to a wild guess.

I will certainly buy the 5e conversion of the DL campaign when you release it -- and already have TPoE. This will take a while to sort itself out. I would not project the future to be as bleak as all of this.

Oh yes, but they have a license, so does FG (for now, that is).

The first real test was Paizo using the SRD 3.5 to compete directly with WotC in 2008. WotC did not waiver on the 1.0a OGL in terms of passed released content, and didn't purport to de-authorize it. They were pissed, of course. Even still, they came back with 5.1 SRD under the OGL 1.0a in...

I would have bought some more titles on DDB this year, both already released stuff I don't have and some forthcoming stuff. Now I won't. I have my campaigns planned for the next 2+ years or so... but circumstances change, feelings change, we are always changing. I think that's it for me and...

There are a lot of ex-WotC people at Paizo (at all levels, literally from the top down) -- and now a lot of ex-Paizo people at WotC, too. These staffers have worked together, and many of them are friends outside of work, Some don't see each other outside of GenCon or other industry cons, once a...