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So, I just read a quote by Ryan Dancey that helps explain why I believe D&D's (and 5e in general) dominance is a bad thing If that was their intention, then honestly, I won't mind if the OGL 1.0a gets "de-authorized". I feel bad for the 3PP who created content that WotC benefited from, but the...

I'm curious how many folks here have seriously considered writing their own game, homebrew rules or setting for their favorite game(s) after the WotC dumpster fire? For close to 2 decades, I've been sitting on a pile of notes for my own game system. It'd probably never sell (or at least, I'm...

Merlin...from Excalibur. Or perhaps you thought of another?

Wait, why are so many people conflating OGL = D&D = TTRPG hobby? I see a lot of people suggesting that WotC has a right to defend their brand by essentially being able to censor who gets to publish what under the OGL to protect their image. But a 3P creating a game using OGL as a license does...

This may sound a little odd, but I hope you can understand this analogy. When we break up with a significant other (whether due to betrayal, irreconcilable differences, or whatever), sometimes, we feel like there will never be anyone like that again, and there will forever be a hole in our...

But you're assuming that if people abandon D&D, they also abandon the TTRPG altogether. In fact, it's this very notion that D&D/5e and TTRPG are one in the same (or almost all the same) is what could lead this to becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy. If people think 5e/D&D is the only TTRPG...

I find it interesting that many folks seem to think that if there's a mass exodus away from D&D, whether by consumer boycotting, or 3PP no longer willing to hitch themselves to their bandwagon, that this will be bad for the hobby. On one hand, I can see it, because by no longer having just...

I have been thinking this for years. I've never understood why so many gamers will only play 5e OGL systems (or maybe Pathfinder). The reason I most commonly hear is that gaming groups either cannot learn too many systems (eg, not enough time money to learn) or simply refuse to because it's...

Yes, this is indeed an important distinction. But as you said, not only should a GM try to force a player to act or feel a cetain way, there's no way a GM can compel the player to act or feel a certain way, so this was not my intention. Apologies for any confusion. This was more a comment in...

To each group their own, but I do not buy into this concept. I started my gaming "career" playing historical American Civil War and Napoleonic wargames, followed by "modern" (circa early 1980s) microarmor. In these wargame systems, the concept of morale is pivotal. You don't need to kill...

Then look at my example of programming languages. All Turing complete or lambda calculus based programming languages are equivalent in what they can compute. But some programming languages makes certain kinds of problems easier to solve than others. It's the same with game systems. Out of...

Part of the reason I kind of left the RPG hobby other than as an observer is because people pretty much only wanted to play D&D and MTG. Like most people I started with AD&D, but very quickly graduated to many other RPG's from the 80s and early 90s. Somewhere along the MTG and 3rd edition days...

My coworkers are mostly in their mid 20s to early 30s, whereas I was born while they were making Monty Python episodes :) I mentioned this Kickstarter to them and made some Flying Circus references. Then I caught myself and wondered if they even got the jokes, because I wasn't sure if folks in...

It's funny how our word spam to describe unwanted mail or email came from a Monty Python sketch, so it was a natural seeing it in the description. Even the tier level descriptions are awesome. If they had a "Moistened Bint" pledge level at $500 with a replica scimitar (err Excalibur), I would...

What would the Spartans fall under? Or the Sacred Band of Thebes? Or the Mamluks and Janissaries (not quite slaves, not quite mercenaries)? In more modern (circa at least 1700s) times, there were also militias that don't seem to fall under any of these categories (the closest might be Feudal...

I wonder what the weapon stats will be like for a fork? A dirty, filthy, smelly fork

I will name mine Johan Gambolputty... de von Ausfern Schplenden Schlitter Crasscrenbon Fried Digger Dangle Dungle Burstein von Knacker Thrasher Apple Banger Horowitz Ticolensic Grander Knotty Spelltinkle Grandlich Grumblemeyer Spelterwasser Kürstlich Himbleeisen Bahnwagen Gutenabend Bitte Eine...

I find it interesting that there is You're probably right. When I talk about Taoist or Buddhist religion to other people, they immediately get hung up on "but who do they believe in?" or "who do they worship?". I think it is anathema for those with a Judeo-Christian background, and I suspect...

I find it a bit interesting that there is usually little talk or discussion about creating non-pantheistic religions, or even religions without gods per-se. ughh, I hit the backbutton and apparently it auto-posted this and I can't figure out how to delete it. So let's try this again. I think...

I believe I've written about this before, but back in the day, many TTRPGs had characters who were for the most part regular humans (so minimal "rule of cool" chances) and were in a mostly realistic setting. A sampling: Twilight 2000: Average joes surviving the apocalypse of WW3 (most...