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Intent matters. but the words on the page always trump intent. And open licenses are strange things anyway, not like normal contracts. Especially when it comes revocability, the word on the page matters. "Irrevocable" is a very common word used in licenses, and if it is not there, the license is...

Forgive my squirreliness, but that would be tiptoeing dangerously close to legal advice. I must generally refrain from commenting on specific works. I will say that other genres that are merely using a D20 system are probably on better footing than something that is specifically a 5e supplement.

In Europe and other parts of the world, yes. In the United States, a big nope. Protecting the original intent of the creator in copyright law falls under the umbrella of what are called "moral rights." (I'm paraphrasing and nutshelling here). Basically, content creators under moral-rights...

Oooo, that's a tricky one. I doubt WotC would ever go after anyone publishing under the Pathfinder License. They would basically have to go after Pathfinder themselves. I'd have to think about that one, crack open the textbooks again.

I think it would be tricky to pull off, and depend upon the answers to unsettled questions. For instance, if a court were to find that Druid subclasses were fundamentally derivative of the Druid Class in the SRD, it might be tough to publish a Druid subclass, even if you claim to be basing it...

I am a lawyer, and I made a post about this here: Hello, I am lawyer with a PSA: almost everyone is wrong about the OGL and SRD. Clearing up confusion.

Hello, community. Like many of you, I am a nerd. I am also a lawyer. With all the OGL controversy, I have been seeing a lot of claims on the internet, here and elsewhere, about what the OGL is and how it interacts with third party content and copyright law. Many of these claims are, in my...

Thank you for this list, and for including my DmsGuild work! If you are interested, I wrote a companion work (also pay-what-you-want) here: Dungeon Masters Guild

I whipped up a set of tables for just this thing on DMsguild if you wanna check it out. https://www.dmsguild.com/product/409490/Spelljammer-Wildspace-System-Generator?term=spelljammer+wildspace

Drum roll please... https://www.dmsguild.com/product/409490/Spelljammer-Wildspace-System-Generator?affiliate_id=1808607

Honestly, Storm King's Thunder is a better gazetteer for the Sword Coast than SCAG 😆

I think you're right. And that'd be pretty cool. I could see them leaning into Calimshan. Maybe not as a full setting, but an adventure with a gazeteer.

Oh yeah, 90's. And I'm not mad at TSR or Jeff Grub or anything. I think it was overall a good job at making a setting. I would just leave it in the past.

Thank you, I agree. Being of middle-eastern descent myself, I think its not enough to hand over Al-Qadim to someone of middle-eastern descent. Even if you were to remove the caricatures, Al-Qadim's problem is that it was still originally made by folks who only had a western pop-culture...

For new settings, I think they would focus on genres not yet covered. Like, they could do the "First World" mentioned in Fizban's--a setting that is primal in nature--little or no civilization, gigantic monsters, survival, that kind of thing. Any new setting would be some kind of genre, place...

Yeah, they've done horror, mystery, steampunk, solarpunk, space fantasy, epic fantasy with Dragonlance. Cyberpunk seems like a logical next step.

I think Kamigawa for sure. Wizkids revealed a bunch of Kamigawa unpainted miniatures a few months ago, just like they did for Strixhaven a few months before it was announced.