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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 8907540" data-attributes="member: 20741">Ignore that minor stuff folks: pay attention to what WotC is doing and why. Why are they releasing the 5.1 SRD under 1.2 -- when they already did this under OGL 1.0a?Pay attention:[ATTACH=full]273139[/ATTACH]Their VTT Tabletop Policy is at page 6. Here is the reason we are having this discussion in the first place. It's because of Foundry VTT and WotC's own planned 3d VTT, which they intend to sell at a monthly subscription rate, instead of, you know, FREE:So we have: [ATTACH=full]273144[/ATTACH]Now, I know that most of you aren't familiar with what Foundry VTT can do. I'd have to make a video of my own game content that uses many of these features which are supported via add-on modules to Foundry VTT (and which are, in turn, supported by artists providing animations monthly via Patreon).When my PCs play in one of my Foundry sessions? Their characters are represented by  top-down sprites. When those characters make an attack? There is a corresponding animation that is triggered, depending on the weapon they use, and if its hits or misses and a sound FX plays to match the strike, miss or what have you. When my PCs or bad guys cast spells, or a dragon breathes? There is usually an animation which plays, an accompany .ogg sound effect which is triggered -- and COOL STUFF HAPPENS on the screen.This eye/ear candy is what WotC wants to sell with its forthcoming 3d VTT, to DMs and players alike, for a monthly subscription to everyone at the table. They don't care (much) about Roll20 and FG - and they control those under license anyway.  Those VTTs are just not that capable -- they are not an alternative good to the VTT that WotC plans to sell.But Foundry VTT IS capable of those things. It's capable of them RIGHT NOW. There is a 3d suite of add-on modules sold via a patreon by theripper93. It supports 3d in Foundry. There are similarly, a suite of animations for Foundry VTT by a pair of French brothers, Jules and Ben, that have amassed <a href="https://www.jb2a.com/Library_Preview/" target="_blank">quite a collection of animations</a> over the past 2 years. The magic missile which follows and hits the target? That's Foundry's Spell animations. It does a whole crap-ton more than that, too.They don't want you to have that eye candy unless you buy it from them.  THAT is why we are here, it's why we've been here all along. They don't want people to have that option to play with that eye candy for FREE, they want you to have to pay a monthly subscription for that.It's akin to WotC complaining that my minis are painted too well, my 3d terrain on the tabletop is too slick and immersive, my maps are too good, my music and sound FXs are too good, my weather, fog, and lighting effects in Rime of the Frostmaiden are too good. It's all too good. Only they should be able to make something that looks that good - so they can charge me for it (and lots of other people, too).At its heart, this is about Foundry VTT, because it's too good -- and trying to stop a fork of 5e so that WotC does not end up competing with a version of D&D all over again.  They probably can't stop Project Black Flag from happening, but they want to make sure you can't use Foundry VTT with all those bells and whistles to play 6e.</blockquote>

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