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The OGL is heavily inspired by and based on open source software licenses. Much of the core backbone for the internet infrastructure runs on open source software licensed under similar agreements. If WotC managed to get the OGL 1 thrown out in court, it would throw the global internet and...

I am not saying D&D is racist, not all of it anyways. There are parts of it in the past the were deliberately intended to be racist. There were, and still are, parts that are inadvertently or subconsciously racist. D&D plays with mixing lots of different fantasy, historical, and literary...

There is big difference getting upset over over what a company actually does or produces, and getting upset over an anonymous YouTube rumor. It's an even bigger difference from accusing a company of lying when they tell you the rumors are false.

Here is a real puzzle for you, would Wikipedia allow you to use moderator comments on a Wikipedia article, as a source on another Wikipedia article? I know Wikipedia doesn't like using primary sources. I am not sure how it would work. You might be able to get away with it if you throw in a...

I didn't believe something was true based on a single click-baity YouTube rumormonger, quoting a vague rumor from a single anonymous source. I said we shouldn't trust anonymous rumors, and instead wait for official word from WotC before getting upset.

Even after we know all the details there will still be people claiming the original rumors are right and that WotC just hasn't dropped the hammer yet, or they were forced to change their minds due to the overwhelming fan feed back, or something.

Seriously you can just claim, problem solved, D&D is not racist anymore, we don't need to talk about it any more. Forget 50 years of history.

Well, they got to drum up a bunch of hate against WotC, and rake in the the ad dollars and push their patreon, so ... mission accomplish? The sad thing is there will be a significant amount of people that will never believe that the rumors where wrong. We are going to be continually hearing...

Yes orcs are not real people. They are however often a metaphor for or stand in for for real world racial groups. Orcs are literally the "other", "them", the boogeyman, a generic stand in for evil people. They are violent, savage, stupid, lazy, hypersexual, and often more than a little...

Exactly. I know a lot of people are uncomfortable discussing race and our cultural history of racism, but it is impossible to have a discussion about the game term "race" with out actually discussing or understanding why people are actually upset in the first place. Seriously, I understand...

You just solved racism is 4 sentences? Who knew it was so easy. Simplistic examples using terms with no history or baggage makes for easy answers. An orc is not a racial stand-in for racial minorities, except when it is. I don't think I want to again have to go into the details of the long...

It's not like the original OGL is going away. I don't know what inducements WotC will decide to offer to use the new license, I'm guessing the use of more game content and campaign settings, as well as access to WotCs distribution channels. Whatever they are, If a company or game designer...

If there was a real world history of the in-group referring to themselves as tigers, and using house cat as a slur to demean other groups, then yes it would be wrong. That's not the case though. Context matters. There isn't a simple black and white rule that you can mindlessly apply, to...

You understand why race is a problem, but don't understand why people don't want the new term to have the same problem? Replacing a term that people see as a racial slur, with a synonym with with same connotations is not fixing the problem. In fact I would say it is worse than doing nothing...

Yes, it looks like the Magic side of WotC was finally oversaturated the market. However they have been publishing Magic for 30 years, and have resisted pushing a glut of product for short term gains, at the expense of long-term stability until now. Lets not forget that the last few years...

You may be right, it has been a while. From what I remember it was more that TSR was paid for their books in advance by the distributer and then TSR paid back a refund for books that didn't sell. When TSR got in financial trouble they started printing large print runs of books just for the...

I think book returns didn't so much kill TSR, as they kept TSR's bloated corpse afloat for a few more months, before it crashed and exploded. It should have actually died quite a while before it actually did. TSR just used the book trade returns as a source of short term loans. The advance...

I'm sorry I might not have been clear. I was just talking about the current DMsguild, not any new royalties under the new OGL. This is a very nuanced topic with lots of technical terms. When we are discussing these complicated topics, I think we should all try to more specific with our...

I am not a big fan. My biggest issue with it, is that making hit dice a pool of dice you can spend for more power, makes have a dedicated healer character necessary. One of the best things about 5E is a party not having to worry about who has to play the cleric. That said I do like the...

The design team is on pretty good terms with a lot of the large 3PPs. A lot of them are either currently working with, or have worked with WotC in the past. Many of them are also run by former WotC employees. WotC just had a meeting with a bunch of 3PPs to discuss this very issue with them...