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I see it as similar to the arguments over whether or not "Literature X" is Evil. In order for literature to be Evil it is not sufficient to simply "depict" Evil - since in order to warn against/castigate/denounce evil - which would be the OPPOSITE of Evil - you must also describe/depict it in...

Listed in order by the amount I have actually used them in my daily life: An enormous vocabulary (yes, some of it is archaic, but I am usually able to select EXACTLY the right shade of meaning in a single word without resorting to "very" or "kind of" etc.) and that makes people THINK I'm...

I can't remember which "running the game" episodes I saw them in, but I felt Matt Colville did a good job articulating some of my sentiments as far as Treasure and things go. I'll put them down as briefly as I can here. Early editions of D&D (and AD&D) presupposed the goal of adventuring was to...

Clearly your AI was trained on Forbes' Insoluble Dry Plates.

Ah yes - Lydia, from the Pillars of Pentegarn!

I can't provide DATA but I can provide one ANECDOTE, if it helps. I'll kind of be revealing my age here, but I got into D&D in early elementary school - in the early 80's. I started with a copy of the Expert rule set (plus the Isle of Dread), the (1e) AD&D DM's Guide, but by the time I was out...

I wholeheartedly agree it would be great to see Bruce Heard writing additional material for Mystara again.

Have to admit, as someone who grew up on the Mystara setting and mostly enjoys the lore of the setting (in addition to cringing at some of the stuff in Orcs of Thar, I'm not a great fan of "Science Fantasy" aspects - I like to keep my fantasy and my sci-fi separate but some of the Science...

Initially I read it this way, but I have since come around to the following (though I don't think it was well-articulated in the original post there). Premises: "I think WotC put objectionable, racist content in GAZ10" "I think it's important to do SOMETHING about it." Question for Discussion...

As I mentioned in the thread, I object to (briefly summarized): Action Item #1 - My disagreement on this point boils down to a difference of opinion over whether the existing apology (boilerplate) is enough Action Item #2 - No objection to the idea of donating profits per se, but I cannot...

This is an excellent point and has moved me more strongly towards advocacy for "profits from this product ought to be donated to an appropriate charity" (I won't pretend to have great insight on what specific charity this would be). I think this is the appropriate remedy because I do not feel...

I'm probably going to regret stepping into this thread, but you are raising an issue that is clearly important to you, racism in general is an issue that needs to be discussed, and you deserve to have it met with thoughtful feedback. This is intended as constructive criticism (about tone and...

1. Stronghold Rules - Get characters into the political scene and let them start worrying about running a fort/town/province 2. It's already been mentioned, but Mass Combat rules 3. Jim Holloway-style art where D&D shows it isn't always taking itself too seriously (see the Book of Wondrous...

That is an interesting point, and one of the things that kind of surprised me about Pathfinder 2E was that there were no random ability scores at all - it's completely "build your character from this menu." But now that you mention it, I think you're right... I can't think of a campaign in the...

The bit about foregone conclusions and passive checks is really good advice. Without randomness, the players have no real agency - they were always destined to succeed or fail. Randomness is for drama when there are stakes involved and success or failure SHOULD be up in the air. When you're...

One of the things that bothers me when I hear "swingy" discussed around D&D is that I don't think when you actually look at where the math goes, it's quite as "swingy" as those throwing the term around want you to think. I have heard, for example, that "rolling a d20" is "incredibly swingy"...

I am not a lawyer. This is not legal advice. This is, however, my understanding. One of the things the OGL has that CC does not have is that you can specify Product Identity terms that others are completely forbidden from using in any way in their own works without another license from you. For...

And all along, everyone asking for the OGL 1.0a to be left alone agreed that WotC would be perfectly within their rights to do that. Whether or not that's a good idea for WotC is open for debate.

This is a wholly unexpected but certainly not unwelcome development. I like to think of people - even people that are a work of legal fiction such as corporations - as rational actors. What does this latest development suggest to me? To me it further strengthens the arguments of those that have...

I am not a lawyer. This is not legal advice. I'll just throw the following in here as I haven't seen anyone comment on one particular aspect of things... and that is the way that the OGL functions. As many have noted, it was based on the GPL and when a publisher uses either the OGL or GPL to...