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I'm given to understand (with the caveat that I'm not very familiar with the SA license) that it mandates that everything be made open, including stuff that was routinely declared Product Identity under the OGL. This includes proper names, storylines, potentially even artwork and maps. I'm of...

I remember a lot of the "crippled content" that Monte Cook released; while he withheld everything he reasonably could (e.g. the names of monsters), you could at least use things like stat blocks, so it wasn't a total loss...even if it seemed needlessly petty. As far as the ORC License goes, I...

On the other hand, if a publisher uses CC BY material to create derivative work, they're under no obligation to release that work as being itself open. If they don't, that means that producers further downstream aren't allowed to use said derivative work, even though they would have been if the...

This strikes me as the biggest reason not to use the CC BY; the "virtuous circle" created by the OGL's viral nature was an excellent way of encouraging the remix culture that's part-and-parcel of RPGs. Going with a license which doesn't necessitate that (it's still an option, but it's an...

Minor correction here, but using the OGL in and of itself does not forbid that. You can see the full text of the OGL v1.0a over here and it doesn't disallow any such terms. Now, the 3.5 SRD (in its "Legal" file) does declare several names to be Product Identity, which include places such as...

It did. Check out pages 186-191 of the Orcus Heroes' Handbook; there's a long Section 15 that does cite the 3E SRD (and a lot more).

Insofar as "withdrawing permission" goes...not really. They tried to put forward that theory a few years ago, and almost everyone was of the opinion that was bunk; while it would take a ruling from a judge to definitively answer, there's widespread agreement that threat was smoke and mirrors...

I believe that and the Book of Experimental Might (by Monte Cook) are the additional material (besides the 3.5 SRD) cited in the Section 15 of the PF1 Core Rulebook. That said, I've never quite understood what material from the Tome of Horrors is used in the Core Rulebook, since the former is a...

I'd say that's a big part of it, yes. Even if you add the 3.5 SRD to the CC, you can't use (for example) any PF1-compatible Open Game Content with it unless Paizo releases that under the CC as well (and even the PF1 Core Rulebook has OGC from material besides the 3.5 SRD, which would have to be...

I could ask you the same thing about your username. ;) In all seriousness though, I didn't see it as confrontational.

It's really not; there have been far, far worse classes in the history of D&D. Just look at AD&D 2E's DMGR8 Sages & Specialists.

I just picked up Far Distant Future's latest publication (released earlier today), Awesome Ancestries: Two-to-One, Vol. 4 - Athamaru (affiliate link) for PF1, and I'm rather intrigued by what's going on here. Now, as the product's title makes clear, this is a back-conversion, taking PF2's...

4E got started even earlier than that. Page 8 of Wizards Presents: Races and Classes (affiliate link) says: Despite ending on a joke, the next entry notes that the first instances of "design workshop" began in May of 2005.

Penny Arcade has posted their take on the situation:

No worries, I wasn't expecting an immediate answer. Also, happy belated birthday! :) I'm just happy the answer isn't a hard "no." I'll hang onto hope for now!

I just finished reading a beat up first printing of Poul Anderson's 1961 novel Three Hearts and Three Lions. I purchased this several years ago, as part of an effort to read more of D&D's famous Appendix N. What ended up happening is that I instead started reading more nonfiction about D&D in...

Appendix N: The Literary History of Dungeons & Dragons.

I've read Jeffro's book. At his best, he has an infectious enthusiasm and some very engaging insights, but when he's wrong he's very, very wrong, and rather off-putting in the process.

So I've been told that the Switch release of Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection has some performance/frame rate issues. But I've also seen some things to suggest that this either got a patch or wasn't as bad as has been said (i.e. that the game can still be enjoyed at 30 FPS). Anyone have any...