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Random thought I had as I tried to catch up on the thread, and may have missed someone else suggesting: What about changing Expertise so that, instead of doubling the added proficiency bonus, it just gave automatic advantage? The average bonus would be the about same (about +4 for advantage...

Any particular reason to use 2.0 instead of 4.0? -- So, free/open source licenses can generally be broken down as either copyleft or permissive. Copyleft requires that you reshare your modified code, while permissive lets you do pretty much whatever you want, including not resharing code...

Yeah. It's just a rough guideline, but all the marketing/advertising/distribution/etc is commonly estimated as being about as much as the cost of the movie itself. Thus, twice the production cost to break even.

/stares at you in horror Average ticket price in the US is estimated to be about $11. (An exact value used to be reported annually, but the National Association of Theater Owners hasn't updated it since 2019.) The budget for the film is estimated at $45 million. The typical guideline for a...

Overall, it looks good, visually. Probably better than the first trailer. More recognizable monsters in play. Dialog-wise, though, it felt weaker. There were a couple good moments, but also a couple "Hollywood thinks this cringe is funny" moments. I get less excitement from watching this...

Maybe it's a "you" thing? I see 767 comments at the moment.

#1: So skill first, ability second, rather than ability first, skill second? It is, admittedly, the way that most players view things, even if the rules expect differently. #2 I agree with in principal, but it becomes unwieldy in practice. Perhaps if it was presented as, "This ability score is...

There are clear cases, and there are edge cases, and it's the edge cases that are worrisome. For all the policies, all of those platforms still make mistakes, but they also all have something this license doesn't have: An appeals process.

Not just "hateful". Anything that is "that is harmful, discriminatory, illegal, obscene, or harassing" (most of which have very vague, if any, legal definition). But it doesn't even have to be in the content of your product. The license can be terminated if you "engage in conduct that is...

Oh, and yes, this is still a game system license, explicitly bound to Wizards of the Coast and D&D, and not an open gaming license. The naming remains deceptive and untrue, and using it to de-authorize 1.0a is questionable at best since it is not an update to the original license.

Most likely because that's the part that is most un-copyrightable (and thus they risk the least), while also being something that generally should be taken as a whole (which is where CC works best), and being an existing and known licensing system that is entirely out of their control, and thus...

Aside from the fact that the morality clause is still hugely problematic, and absolutely should not be there, no, you don't need to de-authorize 1.0a in order to make use of it. If you want to "add protection" in 1.2 against hateful content, then that means you personally vouch for the "safety"...

So, on the morality clause: An example of the problematic nature of such things is a story from just yesterday, of a streamer (very progressive/left wing) being banned from TikTok for a clip of a Twitch stream where he was explaining some details about Black Live Matters. It was banned for...

Ars Technica posted a follow-up article, discussing the ORC and publishers' reactions: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/01/game-makers-stage-mass-exodus-from-dungeons-dragons-open-license/

Wait, you can access the SRD via git? Point me at the repository! Forks and pull requests ahoy! /s Edit: Actually, doing a search on github, I find this repo — GitHub - Zireael07/awesome-tabletop-rpgs: Awesome list of free and/or open source tabletop RPGs — which lists tons of freely licensed...

Some interesting thoughts. Mixing in with stuff I've seen on YouTube channels, like Tod's Workshop or Shadiversity, my thoughts on design: First, four general types of armor: padded cloth, leather (either advanced cloth or with metal plates [brigandine]), chain, and plate. -- Plate does great...

But how many of them would predict the level of backlash that occurred when the community found out about it? If the outcry was small and easily outlasted, and they didn't sign the 15% royalty deal, they'd be stuck with the even more horrible 25% deal. I would not be surprised if some signed...

My view is that "authorization" can only be considered a positive action. As @Tazawa pointed out, draft versions were not authorized. Only when an acceptable version was written was it deemed authorized. So "authorized" means, "We accepted this as a valid license that we were willing to mark...

TechDirt also has an article: WotC Makes Major Changes To D&D OGL License, Sends Community Into A Frenzy TechDirt is a site that focuses heavily on intellectual property and civil rights issues, from a legal and constitutional perspective. They were also the ones that originally coined the term...

Not a d100? I wanna see the "gets turned into a potted plant" result!