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I wasn't a Wot¢ customer before this mess; they just dragged me into it by coming after the OGL. The best they can hope for from me is that I'll go back to not thinking about them and not talking about them in addition to not buying anything from them. But if I do have to mention either Wot¢...

I was familiar with his channel from before the fiasco. "Anodyne" is the adjective that immediately leaps to mind — his vibe is like if Bob Ross were a D&D guru. Makes sense to go with Bob from WotC's perspective.

I'm on board. It makes a worthier hobby-wide celebration IMO than May the Fourth (Be With You), Int'l Talk Like a Pirate Day, or even Gary Gygax Day.

As I wrote on my blog recently, it was just a waste of three-plus weeks. Reminds me of Peter Sellers at the end of Murder By Death.

Alignments are factions that form around parties and facilitate competitive, massively mutiplayer offline open-table play. Ergo: • If the campaign has only one party, there is no use for alignment. • If the campaign has two parties, or two broad factions that the parties in the game might...

The posts by naysayers opining that Hasbro will succeed in killing 1.0a and we should all just resign ourselves to the bad ending will have rapidly aged like milk in the past fifteen minutes or so.

While I certainly have no problem with gamers who enjoy a variety of systems, it gets tiresome to see this hipsterish demonization of D&D get trotted out again and again. The very Skyrim analogy that appears in the PC Gamer article was used in a thread over on r/rpg not too long ago, and...

All you have to remember is that the sign carries no semantic content at all and can be safely ignored either way, as long as you're paying attention to whether the text calls the adjustment a "bonus" or a "penalty"! :p

This. I hammered hard on Justin Alexander's "cultural vandalism" point, emphasizing that the OGL might be copyright WotC, but the vast majority of Open Game Content isn't owned by them, isn't necessarily derived from their IP, and in some pretty major cases (Fate, d6, and the like) was...

Published on my blog.

1d20 + enemy AC, hit ≥ THAC0. A THAC0 is literally just a DC. If you play 3e, 4e, or 5e, you use THAC0 out of combat all the time. Calm down.

Ugh. If I've learned one thing from all this nonsense, at least, it's this: when it comes to corporations, never ascribe to stupidity what you can attribute to malice.

Uh, yes, actually. If you grant WotC their invented power to unilaterally deauthorize a perpetual license, they'll gladly take that and run all the way past unilaterally deauthorizing an irrevocable license. Different word, same word-game.

Almost certainly yes. If WotC cannot unilaterally revoke OGL 1.0 because it's a contract with consideration, the only way to actually compel anyone to stop using it is to get them to agree to a new contract with language that forbids it.

"Saving throw" and "armor class" predate D&D and come from wargmes. Many, many RPGs have ability scores named for Strength, Dexterity, Intelligence, and Charisma. Constitution and especially Wisdom are rarer, but you do see them. The vast majority of monsters come from folklore, mythology, and...

Jimquisition (a channel almost entirely focused on criticizing the video game industry) has covered the OGL: Makes me wonder if any other former Escapist personalities will cover the story — probably not Zero Punctuation, but Movie Bob might and Extra Credits almost certainly will.

Dark times ahead for those of us who love the game and will carry the torch without the brand owners doing the same. Just keep in mind that D&D ≠ D&D™.

It means the number of people who have cancelled their D&D Beyond subscription is in the tens of thousands.

The royalties and morality clauses &al. were never anything more than a red herring. Wot¢ desperately needs to kill 1.0a to go forward with their plans to please the hedge fund overlords. They need to kill 1.0a to succeed at their initiative, which is to monopolize the digital tools space. If...

And so Wot¢ can GSL their new TETSNBN if they like. They're well within their rights to do that. But the 3.0, 3.5, Modern, and 5.0 SRDs are open-source content now. Publishers have used it and built businesses around it predicated on the irrevocability of that fact. There can be no...