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in my games I give out single use magic items which have more flavor than a scroll but can cast a single spell one time. I took this idea from Cyphers in Numenera. Here’s more about it: https://slyflourish.com/relics.html These have been great additions to my game. They can be really...

5e is the overarching open ruleset platform now. A bunch of games are built off of that platform including: 1. Level Up Advanced 5e (or A5E) 2. Tales of the Valiant (ToV) 3. 2014 D&D 4. 2024 D&D It also has several system reference documents available under various licenses: 1. 5.1 SRD 2. 5.2...

One thing to consider, which I considered when I put out my own CC documents, is that it's a big risk to put anything into the CC because you can never take it back out again. If, for some reason, you really wished you hadn't put something in, there's no great way to remove it again. You might...

Looking at their SRD 5.2 FAQ, they say this: Why is [class, spell, monster, etc.] not in SRD 5.2? SRD 5.2 includes a wide range of content from the 2024 core rulebooks, but some classes (such as the Artificer), species (like Aasimar), and monsters (including the Beholder) have been excluded...

Isn’t there a bunch of stuff like that in the A5E adventurers guide and it’s related SRD?

I think WOTC put out the 5.2 SRD with the material it has for two reasons: 1. To get creators to write D&D 2024 material they could consider for inclusion into D&D Beyond (the barrier of which, right now, is earning about a million dollars in crowdfunding or having another huge audience they...

To me, the simplest explanation is that they didn’t want to give all that text away. Or maybe it doesn’t. I love when I get called a WOTC fanboy in one forum and a WOTC hater in another. Or maybe it doesn’t say something. It’s just not in there. I expect someone is going to publish...

I don’t follow. Is there any part of writing your own bastion options that violates copyright or trademark law? We don’t know why WOTC didn’t include bastion rules but it seems like the simpler explanation that they just didn’t want to give away their own material. Again, IANAL, but I don’t...

They didn’t take Bastions out. They never included them. I’m not sure what limitations actually apply to you if you wanted to write bastion content. Unless you planned to copy large amounts of text from the DMG, I don’t know why you can’t expand on them. The term bastion isn’t trademarked.

There's some 5e stuff in PDF. I wish all of it were. Or even the three D&D 2014 core books at this point. That would be great.

A "live service" game is one that is continually controlled by the publisher, thus open to "twiddling" by making things worse for the end users for the benefit business partners and then profits to shareholders until its miserable for everyone.

Chris Cao's by-line description did teach me something – that the term "live service" game is the nice way of saying future-enshittified game. I'm starting to see the term "live service game" more often since reading that and now I have the right connections in my brain to know what that means.

Thank you so much! This absolutely made my day. I worked hard to try to build a sourcebook that wasn't too heavy but still gave you enough material to run campaigns for the rest of your life if you wanted it to. You nailed the big reason for the arches – the ability to bring characters in from...

You could. I don't know why you would. It only means you have to have the reference citation in the document. That's all.

Yes! And you're right! The OGL isn't a great license. That's why I'm so much happier with them releasing it under CC BY. You should! It's great stuff!

I didn't say what WOTC did was bad at all. I think what they're doing is just fine. I'm not a fan of what Kobold Press did with Black Flag. They based Tales of the Valiant on the open 5.1 SRD in the CC but then put out a subset of their own material under ORC, thus forcing everyone downstream to...

Yep, and I don't think we're going to convince each other. I'll try to help other folks navigate this. Good news for me, the 5.2 SRD (And 5.2 SRD and A5e SRD) are all CC BY so I have nothing to worry about. The happy medium is in keeping your CC-released material in a separate document. You...

The problem is that viral licenses always help the top of the food chain. Whoever creates the original work is under no obligation to release all of their material under the license but then forces that obligation on everyone below. WOTC never released the whole Player's Handbook under the OGL...

You are better off creating a whole separate document, like Kobold Press and WOTC have done, that only includes the material you want to share. That way there's no confusion about what's allowed and what is not. ORC does allow a publisher to release an entire book under ORC, as Paizo has done...

I use CC BY for my material: https://slyflourish.com/lazy_gm_resource_document.html https://slyflourish.com/lazy_5e_monster_building_resource_document.html CC licenses are the most flexible and widely used of the three licenses in the world. CC is used on billions of products and has been...