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Greek Ages include a Heroic Age after the Bronze Age and Ovid actually ignores the Heroic Age when he rewrites them for the Romans but places his contemporaries in a fifth age after Iron, from my understanding of his writings. There were a good number of folks who made OGL products for 3.0E...

If they are totally new characters and everyone agrees prior to joining the game, sure then it is a starting point. However, no, it is not comparable even under those circumstances to using a tavern as a starting point. The additional restrictions placed upon players and their characters when...

Did he take his Kindle?

Nelson Shanks has passed. http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20150830_Nelson_Shanks__renowned_portrait_artist__dead_at_77.html

You're kinda misstating things here again. If someone utilized the SRD to create some material and then goes on and add some OGC whole cloth within it, yes everything in their Section 15 would need to also be cited in any subsequent Section 15 that used any OGC from that source. That doesn't...

Certainly makes sense that they've having a living document for in house use. I'd imagine, though, that after their initial meetings over what sort of work is being contracted they give the design team something broader to work with so they have plenty of room to run with their early ideas...

I'm not so sure that it isn't, in effect, an SRD. It might even have that name but be restricted to use by those that have been licensed to use it. Nevertheless, for our purposes here in this discussion, it's not an SRD that we can use.

He probably means that those contracted by WotC are given a 5E "bible" of some sort detailing what can be used in their licensed products.

And from a thousand other OGC contributors who have used it since its inception. By asking WotC to use the OGL for 5E the assumption is they will release OGC, probably in the form of a 5E SRD. Has that not been understood?

Clearly not by everyone but some people are a bit more informed than others. The 3.5 Unearthed Arcana used the OGL to included OGC from The Game Mechanics and Green Ronin Publishing, so technically it is 3PP product from WotC.

"Details" of the license? You've raised the threshold form knowing the license exists and that (in the case of 3PPs) knowing it can mean a 3PP is selling something compatible for their game to Discussing Section 15 info? All right. I give. :p

You might sprinkle in some language from the various Witchcraft Acts from history - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witchcraft_Acts You should be able to search for them individually to get the text and snag some snippets -...

I think you might also adjust your terminology to not seemingly equate OGL (or any open game license, of which there are quite a few) with 3PP. I think it confuses the situation to limit any open material with 3PP only. See, you discussed this earlier as if your own experience is the...

Naw, we were discussing gamers as a whole and you (I think it was you, no?) suggested at one point that gamers who purchased certain things had "insider" knowledge and that was what I went on to discuss. If you keep switch tracks and then tell me I'm on the wrong track, we won't get very far in...

It's hard to think of something as "history" when it happened during your lifetime and with you involved on some level. :D Maybe it is the term "insider knowledge" that you use that is throwing things off a bit. Having some consumer information isn't a secret. It also doesn't require being...

Same way we found out about Mayfair's Role Aids and Judges Guild stuff back in the day. That doesn't seem extraordinary. Maybe this is a generational thing? Are you actually equating dedication in fandom to generally getting information online rather than face-to-face? Maybe this is the...

No gaming at all? Plans to get back into it at some stage, based on your occasional purchases? I don't know, would you call yourself during that period a dedicated gamer? A casual gamer? Closer to one than the other? I think the test for someone people would be if you were part of an online...

Naw, not flawed. Percentage of time devoted to actual gaming as a gamer would seem to be an excellent metric since that should be the ultimate pursuit of a gamer. It's the literal definition of a gamer, i.e. a gamer games. If anything, the term "casual" is merely being imprecisely used.

Oh, I totally get what you mean, Tony. On a side note, this never happens in any campaigns I run as a DM. My purview is the setting, the players make plans for their character. But this is another discussion, though it does go to show that it truly takes all kinds. :)

But spending the majority (almost all) of the time they devote to gaming, actually gaming? I am seeing that I definitely have a different view of what I would call a casual gamer than some others in this thread.