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    Tolkien fanfic writer sues Tolkien estate over copyright

    Trademarks can. This would be primarily a matter of copyright, for which this isn't true.
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    Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Specials [[SPOILERS!!]]

    And just like that, in a few lines that don't actually invalidate much if anything from the preceding almost-half-century, Gaiman rewrites so much of the series' lore in a way that actually makes everything make more sense. It's probably the most deft retcon of all time.
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    D&D General A question about Extra Attack and the Sharpshooter feat

    I disagree with Oofta. The PH description of the feat (p 170) says "before you make an attack"; it doesn't mention the Attack action or capitalize "attack" or anything like that. It seems clear to me that you can choose whether to use Sharpshooter for each individual attack, and if you have...
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    D&D 5E Minions with Damage Thresholds?

    This is what I do. It's also seen in several of the Zeitgeist adventures, from the publishing arm of this very site. It seems to play well, with minimal tracking (some, but far less than if they just had hit points, even relatively few). In Roll20, I give every minion a hit point bar with 2 hit...
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    D&D 4E Ben Riggs' "What the Heck Happened with 4th Edition?" seminar at Gen Con 2023

    This is something I've noticed more and more of. People identify with their preferences in entertainment media - in the fairly literal sense of making being a Star Wars fan or whatever part of their identity, a big factor in how they think of themselves - to an unhealthy degree. And as a result...
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    How do deal with players who don't search?

    So, double down on an approach that's done nothing but spectacularly fail so far. Can't see any way that could go wrong, no sirree.
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    How do deal with players who don't search?

    Do they take any initiative at all? What do you see them respond positively to or gravitate toward? It's starting to sound like they view the game as mostly passive entertainment like a movie, to be honest.
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    How do deal with players who don't search?

    Talk. To. Your. Players. Out of game. Explicitly say some of the things you said here, or slightly more polite versions of them. This is not a problem you're going to solve with scenario design alone.
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    Elissar/To Save A Kingdom Reddit thread harshly critical of riddle from Memories of Holdenshire

    I just stumbled on a thread on Reddit that was very critical of Granny Appleseed's riddle on page 33 of Memories of Holdenshire. Although one thing the thread doesn't mention is that the adventure does allow for fairly easy skill checks to get additional clues, which somewhat reduces the bite of...
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    D&D 3E/3.5 Sounds too good to be true

    Ah. That makes sense. Scribd has legit e-book and audiobook sections, but anything D&D-related I've seen there is user-uploaded with no indication that it's in any way approved by WotC. So, almost certainly pirated. I'm less familiar with that side of archive.org (I mostly just use the Wayback...
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    D&D 3E/3.5 Sounds too good to be true

    There's not enough detail here to be sure but my first thought is that perhaps he fell for one of the scams that advertise regularly on Facebook.
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    D&D General Which D&D World Would Make the Best TV Show

    I went Dragonlance, Eberron, and "Something I Forgot", specifically with Dark Sun in mind. Krynn especially seems tailor-made for a big-budget TV series, all you need to do is adapt the OG novels with relatively small changes for modern tastes. You would really need to embrace problematizing the...
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    WotC's growing pattern of broken promises

    Another case where a link would be nice. When did they promise that?
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    WotC's growing pattern of broken promises

    There's a lot of arguments for that (EDIT to clarify: for keeping OGL 1.0a). Promissory estoppel probably doesn't crack the top 5, even from a strictly legal perspective, let alone ethically. But I think I do see what you're getting at for all that. Also, I'd be extremely surprised (and...
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    WotC's growing pattern of broken promises

    I think you mean estoppel, and the problem with that is, who exactly would the complainant be? Not most of their current audience or even most collectors, who have seen prices go up due to reprints in many cases due to increased demand. In the very common case of once-in-demand cards that are...
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    WotC's growing pattern of broken promises

    That's a completely different thing in that Reserved List is a rule the overwhelming majority of their audience doesn't want them to honour. This wasn't the way to do it but frankly, that's one promise they should tear up. Unfortunately there seems to be some (actual or perceived) legal issue...
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    95% of you didn't need the OGL and you don't need ORC

    For the same reason he produced the OP, which is, to be as charitable as possible, poor reading comprehension. He was ostensibly responding to arguments against his take that the OGL was some kind of trick to drive people to DM's Guild. There are many reasons that have been brought up why this...
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    WotC Walks Back Some OGL Changes, But Not All

    Well, it achieved that.
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    Paizo Announces New Irrevocable Open RPG License To Replace the OGL

    First of all, NDAs often contain restrictions on doing that. Second, that's not what they said. They said they're waiting for "further information" and "an answer". They don't say they haven't had any discussions and they don't say anything like "about these rumors" - that's a substantial...
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    Paizo Announces New Irrevocable Open RPG License To Replace the OGL

    That their hands are tied in that respect by an NDA, but that enough is now public that they can comment based on that without violating said NDA.
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