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There were several others, and Stone was hemming and hawing a bit because he wasn't certain, which is reasonable. Also it would not play out identically in all jurisdictions (the OGL 1.0a doesn't specify a jurisdiction), which would have complicated matters further. Also like, when a US lawyer...

Oh I assumed that was a typo given there was also a typo in Official, sorry lol. Let's blame @Parmandur's Android phone for making me too prone to assume things are typos, then it's neither of our faults!

That doesn't support the argument that they're not hostile. Two kids may well have sandboxes, but when one of those kids is okay with other kids coming in and playing in his as long as they don't knock down his sandcastles, and the other regularly has sand-throwing tantrums at other kids and...

I did, is the "definitely" sarcastic? Otherwise it seems like a single, straightforward sentence. What am I missing.

Does it? I was under the impression products on there weren't curated meaningfully, they just had to meet certain requirements, by which logic the Steam or Nintendo stores would be "curated", but neither is.

That's obviously a rather crude over-simplification of the issue. You may find that compelling, but I think it actually significantly weakens your argument. The entire rhetorical device of "let's over-simplify something to try and make it look good" is kind of DOA since "Wow so it's illegal to...

I mean, I get it, but I really don't find the fact that they essentially operate Beyond as "invite-only" to be reputable or cool, really. Also, I don't think we should use the term "curate" unless actual curation (which is a serious activity and would involve subjecting every product of a...

I feel like accidentally spurring the creation of a bunch of D&D-likes was at least a short-term win for us and loss for WotC. Whether it'll work out in the longer-term remains to be seen. I think the biggest issue D&D faces right now is that 2024, whilst seemingly selling okay, also doesn't...

Of course to the people writing 1E, or at least Gygax, "Good" meant something very different, both narrower and broader than what Good means to most 1990s and later D&D players, specifically in that he explicitly considered "Kill em all and let [the gods] sort 'em out" (i.e. "just kill everyone...

I can't speak for the publishers, and would be interested to hear specific perspectives, but as a general principle, yes it did threaten publishers. There were several different vectors of harm. First off, WotC was trying to push the idea that they could deauthorize the existing OGL, I think...

They were never a "scrappy indie". Bioware was an AAA company (for the time) since day 1, and Bioware was owned by EA for the vast majority of the time it put out what you call "legendary RPGs". Further, those people didn't quite when things "got too corporate", they quit when the games started...

Oddly enough I don't think it's Ed who sees Cormyr as sorta of utopian, but rather some other FR writers of a slightly more boring bent. I think Ed's idea of heaven-on-earth is more like that inn in one of the supplements he put out on DMs' Guild which was in the picturesque middle of nowhere...

When I read this it was raining. Damn you Britain! I'm not sure there's been a day fully without rain yet here in Tottenham.

If they'd just got the PC that would be totally plausible, like taken it out of the box and gone "What the hell?!". People buy stuff all the time without checking the ports, including experts. Or if the laptop was something they'd stolen or just been handed, rather than their own laptop. If the...

I know China has a rep for doing things for a reason, but, I suspect "because it's fun and social and not staring at a screen" might well be the predominant reason here. Murder-mystery (and similar) LARPs are insanely huge in China, and no-one is doing those for any real reason beyond "It's...

I just started watching Steal and I literally immediately assumed as soon as I saw more than one of them, that they'd done that for the sake of making themselves hard to conclusively ID by people and facial recognition. You were certainly right to recommend it as getting a lot of little...

No, a sports ref should be Lawful Good, ideally. Realistically they're mostly Chaotic Evil though, at least according to the fans. More seriously Lawful Good or Lawful Neutral would be much better alignments for a sports ref than TN, which implies a determine to reject law, i.e. the rules of...

I looked into it - her natural hair as a grown-up is actually pretty close to mine - a quite dark blonde but hers has more red in it than mine did (the grey-en-ing has commenced < weeps >), which means it narrowly dodges being "mouse brown" (aka grey-brown aka dark blonde), so the Steal look is...

But is it twee? Everything about it right down to the casting screamed "twee"? And my tolerance for twee is like, negative. A really good show that happens to be twee AF is a really bad show to me - I'm looking at you Pushing Daisies! Clearly a good show, couldn't stand it! (Also wow Bryan...

Blue Rose is fascinating because it's like people don't understand the setup value of having a relatively utopian state surrounded by dystopian or at least non-utopian ones. It's a really strong setup for a campaign honestly. And these people have watched Star Trek, read The Culture novels, yet...