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Basically, you don't want to reboot the Realms, you want to remove all of the damaging reboots. TSR and later Wizards kept coming up with stupid cataclysms to create in-game justifications for the changes in rules / classes etc that happened between D&D editions. 1st to 2nd Ed. If you've...

Anything that will give us more interesting non-combat mechanics that can be gracefully layered with ability checks would be good for D&D, I think. Not too many mini-games and subsystems, but general story-shaping tools.

I have read Shadow of the Demonlord, but not played it. Boons and Banes do sound fun, but I don't know if they are so much better than advantage that I would replace it with them. Nice that they stack a bit though. In Shadow of the Demonlord I love that you choose a path/class essentially...

Their massive scars, and the memory of the beating they just took.

I think it was actually your comment that pushed us over the top - good job!

Congratulations to WoTC for not choosing this hill to die on. I for one will gracefully accept their surrender, and simultaneously raise a toast to the crazy rebels who made this possible. We will not forget who stood by us in our hour of need.

Any LA folks want to picket the premiere if Wizards don't blink on revoking the OGL? Signs that say "Corporate Bullies: Hasbro unfair business practices". "Red Wizards of Hasbro: Hands off D&D" "Heros wouldn't break their word" etc...

You mean works that received their OGL content license from a party other than Wizards, or works whose creator is defunct / unable / unwilling to release them under a new license of any kind? That is an interesting point.

After among the most bungled attacks on an Open Source community in history, clearly someone at Wizards has pulled themselves together this past week and changed tactics. It just remains to be see if a betrayal with good PR will survive where a betrayal with terrible PR failed. Make no mistake...

It may be boilerplate, but it doesn't belong in a license that shares a name with an actually open license (the OGL 1.0a).

Dude that is awesome and pretty sweet! Now they just have to stop attacking the OGL 1.0a community that they promised to forever protect, and everyone can go celebrate together!

Hey, I don't want racists using D&D either, but let me tell you a story about what accepting "openess" means really. There once was a software lisence called the "No Evil" lisence. All it said was that you couldn't use the software for Evil. No problem right? Who could argue with that? Well...

No, but "You can't revoke an open source license" is the hill I will die on. Sorry some of us have to be consistent in our lives.

I can attest to the general awesomeness of Beowulf's setting flavor. The mechanics are great too, with a neat system for handling "sidekicks" / other party members. I am excited to read the rest of the adventures, as I had only previously read through two of them.

Not one penny until the threat to the OGL 1.0a is acknowledged as irrevocable. Don't care about getting rid of "the suits", as it's an internal matter. I only care about external actions.

OK, folks, clearly we made an impact. Deep Breath. Since most of us like the D&D team, it's hard to stay furious at them when they say "mea culpa". But, we need to look at what is actually important and stay focused on securing it. They moved away from royalties (for now) trying to get the...

hmmmm.... still waiting for my confirmation email to make my name appear... is it coming? (edit: took over 20 mins, be patient!)

It can't be revoked for people who have published something under the OGL 1.0a is the EFF's new position.

I thought it was a decent article, she clearly knows both D&D and the law, and compares the pieces of a license to the invisibility spell. It's just an issue of different agendas. What I think her agenda is is to encourage folks to move en masse to a more bulletproof license. This would be a...