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One of the more interesting aspects in all of this is just how far the leaked text of the Decidedly-Not-Open Game License 1.1 pulls back the curtain on WotC's intentions. Even if Decidedly-Not-Open Game License 1.1 is completely scratched by WotC today or tomorrow with a massive mea culpa...

QFT. This. All of this. This is the ONLY reason WotC is even attempting this shenanigan. Are they really concerned about somebody Paizo-ing 5e? Well, yeah, but the royalties and such? There's not enough 3pp that even make enough money to even care about it, and the collected royalties are a...

Let's say you wake up this morning in possession of a magic djinni lamp, and the djinn has but one wish to give. However, the power of the wish is limited to just your own personal roleplaying experience. Our djinn can't make you rich or a rock star, but can grant you the opportunity to play...

So . . . D&D.VE? "Dungeons and Dragons -- The Voldemort Edition"?

If you want tactical, but are eliminating D&D, PF, GURPS, and Zweihander from the get go, about all that's left is some version of Rolemaster/HARP/MERP/Against the Dark Master, HERO, something vaguely OSR-ish, or something BRP based (Mythras, et. al.), or maybe EABA. Do you want something D20...

There's a slight chance my Deep Rock Galactic board game kickstarter will arrive before Jan. 1. That's the one I'm most looking forward to. Otherwise, my family got me the Pebblebrook expansion for Everdell, which is one of my favorite board games ever. So definitely some of that is in the...

Another thing I just thought of --- I probably started my true "GM career" later than most. Sure, I messed around a bit as a teenager, but never actually GM'd anything remotely resembling a real campaign. When I got back into the hobby in my mid-20s with D&D 3, I was always a player. It...

One more note --- The Starforged iteration of the Ironsworn rules is overall a bit cleaner, a bit more refined, and a bit more user friendly, though "OG" Ironsworn is still awesome. If you think you'd like to try sci fi / space opera first, Starforged gets a resounding 5-star review from me...

I found playing with a GM to be fantastic, almost revelatory for me as a GM. If you want to have a GM, just treat it like a relatively "standard issue" PbtA vehicle, and you're pretty much in the right head space. I found playing with a GM, as well as "GM-less" with all players participating...

I don't care about my characters picking up "plot hooks," but I have a near pathological need for my players to interact with NPCs. I watch my players run their characters back and forth in front of an NPC that if they would just stop and chat with for a split second, they'd have something...

I agree with @Xamnam , your overall requirements sound like a FitD-type system would be a good fit. For short, episodic, online roleplaying with just basic video/audio, Ironsworn or Ironsworn: Starforged would be a fantastic fit. My group did a short, 8-session Ironsworn campaign in mid-2021...

And by the way, just to be clear, I have zero vested personal interest in the success or failure of D&D other than it's generally good for the hobby when D&D is good and popular. I'm not a Hasbro shareholder. I don't actively run D&D 5e. I'm happy if the rest of you are happy with it, since it...

Yes. Of course. And who is the "hardest core" of any gaming group? Usually the GM. And what did D&D 5e do RADICALLY differently from the past 2 editions? The bulk of content in the hardcover releases are targeted at GMs running the games---not the players. Ummm . . . so, what descriptor do...

Okay . . . who should they be targeting then? Because you wanna know a secret? On the surface I'd probably look like a prime consumer candidate, but in reality I'm not. Yes, I'm an avid RPG player and GM. Until my recent move to a new state, I played a minimum of 25 sessions a year from...

How, exactly, did a thread discussing the need for innovative business management of the D&D brand devolve into an argument over the D&D cosmology for the last 8 pages? And by the way, if you responded at any point to the cosmology/world building sideshow, you're one of the hardcore and the...

Nearly every business case study ever shows this to be objectively, provably wrong on every level. If you are running a business, your most profitable customers---and the ones most likely to expand their purchasing with you---are existing customers. I'm not saying you shouldn't try to appeal...

There's more to it as well than to just what is licensable from the actual rules text and fluff. If it's a digital platform, are they going to make some areas extensible for third-party programmers? What pieces of the code? How must third-party code that extends D&D One be licensed? What...

Pretty much any system where you can de-couple the ability that's needed from the mechanical rationale for the appearance of the ability. This would be most readily done in skill-based systems. Level / class systems would struggle a great deal more, but could probably be done with work. I know...

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Yeah. A lot. I would know. I used to be one of the ones saying it the loudest. But most of the time it's not even said out loud. It operates as a profound a priori assumption of just about all RPG play that focuses on D&D. "How can you be immersed if the world isn't consistent? How can the...