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The OGL is pretty clear and unequivocal that it is irrevocable and perpetual. I suppose WotC could issue a statement saying that it was revoked, but AFAICT the remedy for that is knowing that they are wrong and ignoring them, not a lawsuit. IANAL, and TIreallyNLA.

The cannot really do that either, unless OneD&D is so far from 5e that it takes any remaining pretense of backward compatibility and shoots it in the head.

I think those are just called "transactions"; there hasn't been anything "micro" about them for decades! That interests me more than any VTT. Another thing that I have thought would be cool for online tools (and to be fair DDB may already do some or all of this) is creating not just individual...

No they aren't, that's the point. They can feel realistic to people who have never been in a fight to the death (which hopefully includes most of us), and to be fair how they feel is more important than actual realism anyway. But in an actual life or death struggle, your brain is very good at...

TBF, they did give a few weeks warning, so anything that could be downloaded (ie Dungeon and Dragon) could be downloaded. I got quite a few of them, but I still kick myself that I ran out of time to and did not download them all. Doesn't help with the CB or Compendium of course. I think you may...

I have a t-shirt that says "There are 2 types of people in the world. 1. Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data." I think I have had to explain it twice, and TBF one of them was to someone whose first language wasn't English (although his English was a damn site better than my Russian).

My guess is that they had nobody left who knew how to fix it when it broke, so they shut it down before it did shut itself down. No way to know how much money it was making at that point, other than it was presumably less than at the peak but more than zero.

Damage has always, back to 1974, either been fatal or something you shrug off with a modicum of rest. Exactly how much rest has come down from (potentially) a few weeks to one night. But anything you can shrug off in a couple of weeks without medical attention is not a serious injury, any more...

They shut DDi down in January 2020, well after the period for which we had minimum figures and well past the end of 4e as current edition. Nobody thinks it was still making massive money into the 5e era, but it was making enough that they kept it going for 5.5 years. Damn those inconvenient...

The post you quoted was my saying "it could work but only with a major rewrite". So telling me that it needs a major rewrite does not seem to be adding any new information.

You couldn't, which is why it is not something that you can really introduce in a minor revision or mid-edition variant (which is why the Armour as DR variant in UA EDIT: for 3.5 was pretty terrible). But you could do it in a full new edition. I remember arguing in the run-up to 4e, before we...

For most of its run, 4e was making stupendous amounts of money from DDi even if it did not sell a single book. This is (of course) not remotely true. But ironically it is pretty close to true that it is the eleventh edition (it is actually ninth or tenth, depending on whether you consider RC to...

I do not think it is that complicated, but @Amrûnril's suggestion achieves much the same while being simpler, so that is good. Not sure about the last one raising the cap, though - that's a big deal in a 5e context.

Nobody is required to buy every product WotC puts out just so they can talk about it. They do not, and never have, done the job of being meat points. Nor should they. Assuming you mean 2008: Not quite, but closer than any edition before (or since). For one thing, they still referred to...

Yeah, I am "white rooming". So are you. The packet came out a couple of weeks ago, so neither of us could possibly have done extensive playtesting with it. EDIT: But this is well past the point of being worth the effort.

"Massive fiddliness" might have been slightly hyperbolic, but it certainly is fiddly beyond first level. At 1st level, the two cases are basically identical. The complexity of the 5e version is static. The complexity of the new version scales linearly with level. I do not understand how this is...

The current slow-motion train wreck that is Twitter since he took over is plenty to suggest he would do something similar to WotC if he somehow got control of it (which is thankfully unlikely).

In 3.5 and 3.0 it was whatever your casting stat was. In 2e (and presumably earlier) it was only your Wisdom, and only for Wisdom-based casters (although in those days they called it "memorising" rather than "preparing").

Nor me. I use D&D lore in a variety of ways. My homebrew world contains a lot of elements that were inspired by existing D&D lore, but which do not now much resemble their original inspirations. OTOH, if I am running an adventure set in Greyhawk or the Realms I try to stick as closely as I...

3.5 sorcerers and bards are spells-known spontaneous, same as they are in 5e. That seems to be going away in 5.5 (for bards at least). They should; that was the original purpose of short rests, before 5e made a mess of them. Look at a number, choose that many spells. Once in 5e, nine times in...