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Yeah, certainly not ideal. But the worst-case scenario right now is a repeat of an era that saw some 3PPs (though certainly not all) indubitably thrive. The likely scenarios involve a new edition sufficiently compatible with 5th that the existing SRD is adequate-if-imperfect, the DM's Guild...

I would say so. Well, I'd advise that they do, but I'm a fan (and occasional writer) who has three decades' perspective on the RPG market's ups and downs. I know that an updated SRD (particularly given how much was already released under the OGL in the 3rd, 3.5, and 5th SRDs) is worth a lot...

It doesn't, because the only WotC-released SRDs were for 3rd, 3.5, and 5th. That material has three things going for it: The 3rd edition SRD (in particular) had a lot of text that was unchanged or lightly changed from AD&D 2e. Copyright protects expression, not ideas. None of it is selling...

Well, it would depend on exactly what you were doing. At the absolutely safest, one could write an adventure in accordance with these suggestions made (by TSR) back in 1994: Beyond that, there's a whole range of opinions about how much more compatible you can get without slipping into the...

It'll be interesting to see how Dragonlance debuts on the USA Today list (that number will be available in a little less than two weeks).

I see the argument for that, but "presever wizards work exactly the way wizards in the PHB work" was the provided mechanics in every published version of the Dark Sun campaign setting.

If you want magic that can do anything, Ars Magica has been around for 35 years.

Wow, it's almost like I should have written something like "That doesn't mean a new story has to strictly adhere to the audience expectations; playing off or against them is a perfectly valid artistic choice." Oh, wait, I did. Yes, sure. Just like, since the copyrights on (most of) the Holmes...

If a publisher doesn't want to deal with audience expectations that are naturally and inevitably formed by previously-published material, the way to do that is to not use the same "brand" as the previously-published material. It is the audience expectations that make a "brand" valuable; choosing...

You may need defiling rules. My quick-and-dirty defiling rules: By default, an arcane caster is a preserver, just like every 2E preserver used the core AD&D wizard rules. A preserver can choose to defile when casting an upcastable spell. When one does so, plants die in a 10 foot * spell level...

I mean, sure, it can work that way at your table, but there's decades of published D&D setting material, both game and novel, that treats classes as features of the way the world works recognized by the game world's inhabitants. (See the Cyclopedia of the Realms entries for the various classes...

Sure looks like a 9th-level version of project image to me. (5th edition project image, 7th level, does everything described except serve as a conduit for spells. 3rd edition project image, 6th level, can serve as an origin for spells, but the range was much shorter and the caster had to...

Just the sort of bleeding-heart kumbya nonsense I'd expect from Time's 2006 Person of the Year.

If there's some way to revoke the OGL: 1) Hasbro presumably would have tried it already, back with 4th edition vs. Pathfinder. 2) The theory would almost certainly also apply to the various perpetual open source software licenses that the OGL was based on. At which point large, high-end law...

If this rumor has any actual substance to it, I expect that such substance amounts to "There won't be a new SRD released simultaneously with the new edition in 2024". Which would be the same thing as happened last time; 5th edition came out in 2014, while the 5e SRD was initially released in...

Hmm. They've replaced the pure-DM-judgment on transitions from flying speed to 100 million miles/day speed for spelljammers in favor of a uniform "1 mile" rule.

Yes, there's a reason I explicitly specified "canonical version of the Great Wheel" and "a common way".

I've played 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 3.5, and 5th. My usual assumption on this board (since this isn't the "D&D Older Editions" board) is that we're all talking about 5th edition, but that doesn't particularly matter here, because . . . . . . in literally no canonical version of the Great Wheel (1st...

The core issue with psionics is that there are several possible incompatible implementations, and the people who are least satisfied with the current situation are the ones that want the psionics that'd cause WotC the most trouble to implement. 5th edition has already evolved a psionics system...

Are they? Where's that said? The astral dominions of "many" gods can be reached by spelljamming, but the book doesn't say anything about the actual Outer Planes being reachable by ship. The set is clear that these islands and cities are part of the Astral Sea. The implication is that these are...