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Ironsworn is free to play and it's really fun.

Some stuff is significantly more ephemeral than others. Sigil's (short) rise and fall is an example. I don't think we get to keep whatever they built if WOTC decides to pull it down, is that correct?

This is two different "everyone"s in this case. If you lose your PDFs because your hard drive crashes, it doesn't mean everyone who ever downloaded that PDF loses theirs. Instead, when Sigil is pulled, everyone who had one loses their shiny gold dragon preorder miniature (Sigil relevance!)...

Yes, but not all at once for everyone. You can go out and buy another copy of a book (even Dragon magazines which, I know, are harder to come by) because they're still out there. Centralized tools are gone for everyone. When D&D Beyond goes down (and it will), it goes down for everyone. I'm...

I’m afraid I shall continue to try to remind people of this ephemeral format and offer tips and suggestions to better preserve their digital holdings. Sorry! We don’t need to worry about most people. We can worry about ourselves and those we can reach. These days it’s easier than ever to keep...

I know. I was just making a perpendicular point about how the 4e digital tools ended up and what we should be considering for current digital tools.

Where is all of that now?

Feels very similar to the VTT plans, including 3d character builders, in the 4th edition days. For more history on that here's the interview with the 4th edition design team by Jon Peterson: and the 4th edition round table on GenconTV with Peter Atkenson. Both are fantastic histories...

When I ran it light always matters. The second it goes out, things start slithering out of the dark and lighting a torch can be hard (DC 12 int or dex at disadvantage). For me it’s a fantastic way to add tension.

My wife and I will be there. I’ll be in some panels and running some games. Probably Shadowdark which is my new favorite con game to run.

I think they did that with their own creator license. They really just don’t want people copying and reprinting their core books. If they had particular mechanics locked behind the license somehow, I’d feel different. “To me ORC does it right: if you choose to benefit in Open Gaming, you must...

From what I understand, Paizo released all of Pathfinder 2 under ORC. So they didn't hold anything back for themselves while forcing people downstream to release everything. They "ate their own dogfood" as they say. This is at the end of the Pathfinder 2 Core Player guide:

I'm going to offer a public service announcement here. Finding people and getting them together to play remains the hardest part of this hobby. Scheduing a D&D game is its own meme. This video (which someone might already have mentioned) talks all about the science behind why it's so hard to...

I hear you and I'm a huge fan of open licenses for game systems but it doesn't bother me in this circumstance because we have the core SRDs already that we need to make just about anything (as Kelsey did with Shadowdark and Gavin Norman did with Old School Essentials). You don't need a...

I've spent a lot of time thinking about how to run big hordes of monsters. The rules in the 2024 DMG (which are very similar to the rules in the 2014 DMG) are very good but they do remove the stochastic elements (rolling dice) of combat. It's also not a rule you can keep in your head. It also...

This speaks to another gap we have and the only two solutions I know of are Reddit and StackExchange and who knows how representative those are. A better way than asking an LLM is to ask people. We do it here all the time. D&D's discord server is actually not a horrible place except its so...

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