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Absolutely, but here's another thing I find interesting I love playing wargames for the tactical combat. I do not want that tactical combat in my RPGs - that is where I want narrative combat. It's not that I don't enjoy tactical combat, but because that is not what I play an RPG for.

I find this sort of thing fascinating, because I have some similarities to you here as well as some pretty major differences. I'm with you all the way on the challenge being how to get the idol floating in the middle of the lava lake, and it being up to the players to decide how they're going...

I'm one of the exceptions to this, it seems. I've been playing RPGs since the early 80s, but D&D was not my first or only RPG in those years, it was just one option. It's always been the one I knew was most well-known, but to me it was still just an option, and I actually feel like I'm...

I think this is one of the reasons I prefer BECMI's solution - low-level characters face monsters in dungeons, mid-level characters deal with kingdom-level threats, and high-level characters go waltzing off through gates to other planes.

Yeah, like if they're climbing a cliff to a nice spot to build their secret castle headquarters at L5, then the day the secret stairwell is compromised when they're L15 and have improved their climbing ability and have to repeat that same old climb, I would not be a fan of recalculating it to...

This is similar to one of my first thoughts on the ORC announcement, but by having publishers do blanket "Everything we ever produced under the OGL, you also have our permission to redistribute under ORC" announcements. Its just the very, very complicated (and risky) task of filing off the...

I was actually about to cancel my Adobe sub last year because I only really use InDesign, and really don't do any layout work for anyone anymore, so it wasn't really anything more than a monthly expense to write off against profit when I do my taxes. Being able to use Photoshop was nice, but...

On that subject, I also want rules that allow me a way to have those rediculous spider legs in the first place without everyone sitting around for three hours debating whether it's even possible with this ruleset and how to actually make it work. Just give me some nice easy way that allows me...

On a personal level, I agree totally with how you feel here (except the Intellij bit, I still prefer IDEA to both Eclipse and NetBeans, but that is a subjective preference of mine and not an objective one ;)) I would like nothing more than all of us building off each other's work, creating a...

While I may disagree with you on the value of homegrown IP by 3PPs, the important thing not mentioned here is when the 3PP themselves does not own the IP, but is using it under license. If there wasn't expressly protection for that in some form, it's unlikely we'd see things like Cubicle 7's...

I think the only issue I have with this is that I can mark things as yes or no - there's some that just don't matter to me either way, and I feel bad that by not checking them I'm saying I don't want them! Still, what I do want essentially comes down to copying BECMI (right up to the I), but...

One of the reasons why I trust 2000 WotC far, far more than 2023 WotC. The mailing list discussion talked these things over, I'm pretty sure we even discussed ideas like simply reprinting the entire SRD verbatim and selling it and concluded that while it was certainly permitted, it would be...

I know where you're coming from. I'm a big advocate for open-source software myself, but I'm not an open-source purist - I will also use other alternatives if they're more suitable. I use Adobe products because they're industry-standard and I can't force someone who requests I give them an...

Wait. You thought that was a metaphor? <.<

My thinking here goes along these lines. I have a choice of two potential business partners to share an office with. Each is armed with a fairly lethal poison dagger. One has stated in private conversation to others that their future plans include the possibility of stabbing me with their...

I'm almost in entire agreement to this. The first two sentences for sure, but I would be interested in seeing whether continued usage of OGL 1.0(a) is tested in court and possibly returning to it at a later date if precident is established the right way.

Yeah, as a layman I'd say copyright issues can come down to whether your sculpted shoulderpads are sufficiently similar to the other guy's, which is not really something you can sit down and theorize before the case even begins, while contract cases are more language-oriented, the words are...

Certainly, but the problem is that 1.1 was an indication of what they really want, and will likely be looking for ways to do in the future with less opposition, such as doing it a bit at a time to avoid such a huge backlash.

I'm also worried about the "type of work that could be licensed" part. So if you had been working on VTT software, you wouldn't even have gotten the six-month grace period and would suddenly find yourself with a ton of unusable work, if you believed WotC had the right to pull your existing OGL...

From my own perpective, I don't really see this as a problem, because I've understood the OGL worked like that since shortly after it was first published. That's a part of the agreement, and not some loophole someone has discovered and is attempting to use years later. One of my own first...