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I love creating my own campaign worlds, but I don't really care for DMs that think their story is more important than the player's story. I say let them all in and then find ways to make it fit. It's almost more fun to figure out together how to solve the puzzle.

I think it's kinda weird to hold Mearls feet to the fire for an offhand reply to a question from someone he knows on Twitter. It's not like he issued a statement on behalf of the company. It's not like he used an official company account to comment on the matter. When he realized others were...

I found the 3e launch list. Here's where we were through 2 months after the release of the 3 core rulebooks… Character Sheets Dungeons & Dragons Adventure Game Player's Handbook Dungeon Master Screen Dungeon Master's Guide *Gazetteer *Pool of Radiance: Attack on Myth Drannor *Sunless Citadel...

I don't disagree with much in what you've written, but this part confuses me. What kind of "support" were you expecting in the two months since the DMG was released? If it's not an adventure (as your other posts indicate) what were you expecting?

Then it would follow that they should have a light release schedule, right?

That's a little cynical for me. The only way to really know if a coordinated cross-media event helps the RPG and the other properties is to try it. You have a right to be skeptical, but I appreciate that they are trying something new.

I suspect they are holding back some details so they can coordinate all the announcements across the RPG, neverwinter, licensed products, etc. to create buzz around a cross-media event. One way to bring new players into the RPG hobby would be to catch their attention with something they are...

I wish you lots of success. There is room to experiment with content and freemium/premium plans. I hope you get the chance to find what works for your audience.

Those generators had all kinds of references to WotC trademarks. PHB, DMG, book names, monster and character names. They were a mess in terms of compliance. They also had all of the options available from all of the books. Something that you couldn't do just by using the SRD. I still think it's...

The point is that a useful character generator needs access to ALL the content. A license is the only safe way to do that. To respond more directly to your question, there's about 20 or so spells that have proper names in them. There's no way to use those in a character tool without a license.

They will always fall within the reach of copyright, but there is a very slim chance that something like this could be permitted under fair use. I can accept your point that there is some grey area, but it's still narrow. Even if you clear the fair use hurdle, you would still run afoul of...

I can't quite figure out what you are talking about here. WotC should not have released WHAT exactly? The core rulebooks before they were ready to release open content under an OGL? They shouldn't have released an announcement that an OGL for 5e was coming? I don't understand what is shady or...

I absolutely agree with this point. Consider the Morningstar project. That had a budget of $500k (and was more ambitious than just a character generator). Let's say D&D still has a vision of producing an electronic tool that is equally ambitious. WotC won't do it in-house. They will license it...

This is a problem only if setting continuity is valuable to D&D. The game itself is pretty tolerant of letting the players change all that anyways, so I'm not convinced. I'd be more concerned with the loss of institutional knowledge of how the RPG business works, and what ideas are worth...

Maybe something like this… http://zerohitpoints.com/Guides/DnD-5-Character-Creation-Checklist or this… http://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/2g4fp6/5e_character_creator_flowchart_done/

I think the comparison to Lord of the Rings is appropriate. Before the movies, about 100MM copies of the book(s) were sold worldwide (50MM have been sold since). In 2004, WotC estimated that about 20MM people have played D&D. I don't have a good way to figure out how # of books sold equates to...

You want random chance in traps. That's fine. I'm just saying to put the outcome in the players hands instead of the DMs. I was trying to make a particular point about how PP and chance could interact. If you use PP to determine if they notice the trap, you can still decide how to describe it...

Moving the roll to the DM seems almost pointless. Where is the fun (for the players) in that? I'd much rather use their passive perception and then… This approach gives the DM a lot of flexibility to determine how the game moves forward. Is this an important plot point where the failure or...

I'm sure you're trying to help too, but you are looking for info on home play materials in the wrong place. Adventurer's League is 100% dedicated to public play, whether at game stores, hobby stores, schools, libraries, or some other public venue that is open for people to drop in and try out...

They didn't have to market Harry Potter? How do you define marketing then?