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Actually, that's wrong - civil trials can be by jury... I know because a few years ago I served on a jury in a civil trial. Juries are used in both criminal and civil trials; the difference between the two is basically (1) the "prosecutor" in a criminal trial is always the government, (2) only...

I completely disagree that it is "incredibly" reasonable and fair. I will grant that it is more reasonable than the leaked OGL 1.1 draft but the word "incredibly" is not a word I would use to describe it. Even if we were to assume that I was not going to create something racist or offensive...

So, thoughts on my initial read-through: This is better than the leaked draft because it explicitly spells out that the deauthorization only applies to SRD content from WotC. It means other works that published under OGL 1.0a are still licensed under 1.0a. This removes some of the clouds around...

I dunno, I picked up RPGs in the early 80's and I tried a lot of RPGs in the early 90s. While I have fond memories of some of the settings, I have less-fond memories of the mechanics and in fact felt that oftentimes clunky mechanics made an otherwise-interesting setting something I wasn't...

I think Steel_Wind has the correct view here, and I think Joe does a good job of summarizing why the OGL 1.0a is so important here. As things stand today, the SRD for 5e is Open Game Content under the OGL 1.0a. This means anyone can legally copy - and more importantly for creatives - MAKE...

So, let's lighten up the discussion a bit, eh? About four years ago, my oldest son (who knew I played D&D and wrote some self-published stuff in the early 3E days) asked me about D&D because some of his friends at school were interested in it and wanted to play it and possibly start an RPG club...

If it's an argument you're looking for, you're not going to find one here. The ethical way to do this would have been to make OneD&D "just different enough" from 5E that it doesn't alienate the community while leaving material previously released as OGC alone and making it problematic for...

It's not about third-party TTRPG publishers. It's that they are pivoting hard into the subscription-based VTT space with D&D Beyond and need to muscle out the current players that support 5E like FantasyGrounds, Roll20, Foundry, etc. by revoking their ability to support 5E material so that they...

Oh, hey, this account still works! Here's my take on the situation. I think WotC is probably genuine about wanting to make sure D&D isn't associated with content they find distasteful and I suspect this isn't just the suits - it's probably the rank & file as well. I can't say I particularly...

Links should have hit your email by now, Rich. Let me know if they didn't. Anyone else who donated and didn't get links, please let me know. I can extend this offer through the end of this week since the guy in charge of this hasn't set things for print yet and extended the deadline until this...

Thanks so much for helping out, Rich! I should be getting a list sometime early next week and will make sure to get links out to you post-haste thereafter! :)

Haven't been around ENWorld in at least 5 years, but hopefully a few of y'all recognize my handle (and by my post count, you'll know I was active back in the day). Please allow me a moment or two to set the stage: My son is involved in a fundraiser to raise money for his church group's youth...

Haven't been around ENWorld in at least 5 years, but hopefully a few of y'all recognize my handle (and by my post count, you'll know I was active back in the day). Please allow me to set the stage: My son (Nathaniel Cooley) is involved in a fundraiser to raise money for his church group's youth...

Been fun in the past, but increased responsibility at work last year made it so I really didn't participate (which is no good for anyone) - and this year looks even busier (including other real life concerns). Rather than play even less than half-assed, I'll give it a miss this season, but...

At the risk of this being the wrong place to put this, I'm going to share with you what I'm playing these days. My playing group and I have all moved, have kids, etc., and I really can't play D&D any more - I have too many other responsibilities on my plate, and I can't carve out a large enough...

Or just PM me with some contact info and I'll see about getting you another copy next time I log in to check my messages.

As with the other wiki project, I explicitly give permission to include S.T. Cooley Publishing's stuff in here. My wiki-fu sucks, so I will let someone else who has the inclination and better wiki-fu add it.

*sighs* I was using shorthand. WotC does not own the ideas embodies in the rules. They do own the "rules as written" since the rules as written are a copyrighted work encapsulating a creative expression of said ideas. Regardless, the point was WotC can use the stuff they've developed in any...

Or, here are some things I think 4e got "right" and some things I think it got "wrong." This is all my opinion, your mileage may vary. RIGHT: Artifacts. They are now almost like major NPCs in their own right, and have goals, objectives, and (most importantly) are to leave the campaign once...

I am not a lawyer. This is not legal advice. Not true. You seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding of the way the license works. To wit: * Wizards of the Coast owns the copyright on the rules, etc. of D&D. They can do anything they want with it because they own it. * The Open Game...