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I haven't read up on Dark Sun in ages, but it comes across as (or as if it could easily be) Permian-Triassic Boundary, the game setting. And that might be one way to take it - a world doomed to nearly-total devastation, until the forces driving same finally go away (*), when it can finally...

Mechanically speaking, a 5e light cleric and a wizard both casting fireball is not quite the same as a light cleric and wizard each having their own fireball-like spell, with few meaningful differences between the two. (Within the fiction, of course, there's no reason to believe the two...

I voted that stat blocks should be as long as they need to be; realistically, however, only the most legendary of legendary monsters should go over a page - and even then I'd prefer that they be "multi-phase" monsters (like the spoilered enemy below) so each phase fits in a stat block that is no...

Not a D&D story, but apropos of this, I was in a gaming circle that played a lot of Here I Stand (the card-driven Reformation Era game) for a spell several years back. Anyway, my brother, the Anglican priest, would always want to play the combined Protestants/English side. (We usually had four...

You're basically describing my Fantasy Heartbreaker project.

I think this sums up how I'm feeling about this:

That's uncalled for when you're discussing a product developed by a tiny third-party outfit that has (as far as I am aware) almost no associated promotional activity. Heck, I don't even know what new D&D products are out half the time if I don't go check them out in a bookstore or my FLGS! And...

I don't think this is really going to be enough in terms of protecting the vibrant 3pp community that the old OGL built up (which, as a reminder also created a great deal of additional value for WotC), but I'd like to see what Paizo, Kobold Press, EN Publishing, and other big and semi-big names...

@FormerLurker There is nothing to negotiate. WotC has lied, betrayed the trust of people who have provided an enormous amount of add-on value to D&D over the past two decades (and would have continued to provide), and has shown they are willing to obliterate an entire industry for the sake of...

This is false. Paizo has said that they will defend the irrevocability of the OGL, in court if necessary.

I wonder if it's a misunderstanding of who "they" are who are not reading feedback?

I'ma tell my local newspapers to stop the presses to get this story in.

When the Google search graph showing interest in a controversy of your own making distantly resembles the trendline graph of global temperatures over the past 100K years or so... you done got yourself a problem.

Can't agree - OGL wouldn't stop this from being a money-maker if there was enough value-add - that is, access to IP/PI content (none of which is found in any SRD) and built-in tools in DDB/VTT. And with a big enough user base it could entice 3pps to come on board to create content. (Obviously...

Pretty sure a couple posts note the leaked slide is fake. However, I think DDB could, in theory, have a $30/month tier that would be worthwhile. I wouldn't be interested in it, myself, but I could see it existing.

They tried to warn us in the Monster Manual disclaimer...

So I think that this is a can of worms best left unopened (having beauty reflected in Charisma, that is, not discussing why or why not do so). That aside, I think it links PC game-mechanical capabilities and appearance in a way that's going to be obnoxious to players, especially when you roll...

I think the reason that angle hasn't come up much in discussion here is because controlling prospective 3pp or homebrew content on the VTT doesn't require trying to de-authorise the OGL, it just requires that users and 3pps accept a different licence - not unlike the terms for posting content on...

Nah just a general remark - but I hadn't thought of that angle, and you're right, that is surreal!