I remember the Superman triangle numbers. Jesus...
OGL Ray Winninger comments on the OGL
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Charlaquin
Goblin Queen (She/Her/Hers)
It’s a joke man, don’t overthink it.
ilgatto
How inconvenient
The "even edition curse"!? Why, there's absolutely nothing wrong with 2E and...
Oh, wait.
I see what you mean.
Charlaquin
Goblin Queen (She/Her/Hers)
And to be clear, I think 2e and 4e are both great rule systems. But they also both, for various reasons, led to troubles for TSR and WotC.The "even edition curse"!? Why, there's absolutely nothing wrong with 2E and...
Oh, wait.
I see what you mean.
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ilgatto
How inconvenient
. Even then I seem to have missed the meaning of the "even edition curse"!
Maxperson
Morkus from Orkus
They even tried the use of "One" which has 3 letters to be doubly safe. They should have read the rules on curses. Curses are not so easily evaded.
Maxperson
Morkus from Orkus
Pretty sure it's the opposite of sebtraction.
schneeland
Hero
Well, given how many Ex-Microsoft employees are at WotC and that there's the same curse, only with odd editions of Windows, now I imagine that after their probation period, every Microsoft employee has to choose:
Are they an even edition person? Then they get to stay at Microsoft and ruin the odd releases. Or are they an odd edition person? Then they get a job offer at WotC.
Naturally the inverse policy has to be implemented at WotC, so there's always enough head count available.
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Desdichado
Hero
However, unfortunate connotations to Sauron and the Rings, which have been comparisons that are too easy to resist this week.
Azzy
KMF DM
Considering that all of Foundry VTT's support for D&D and OGL content is created and developed by 3rd-part creators, I wonder how this will play out for them.
Based on the leaked draft, Foundry is in the worst place if they don't have the same kind of direct deal with WotC that FG and Roll20 do.
Azzy
KMF DM
I just don't get it, though, considering that there's no 1st-party Foundry support for D&D/OGL games. I could see going after the 3P creators of game system modules, but Foundry itself?
But if the new OGL stands and says "no VTTs" then Foundry is probably going to have to take that stuff off their service, I would think.
Thomas Shey
Legend
Depends how its being put on it; keep in mind Foundry is hosted by the user, not a central server. I don't know how system support is managed, but if its done by using files at the user's end, hard to see how they'd have any real obligation to do anything about it.
Foundry won't be able to officially host the files but that won't stop people from distributing them over, say, Discord.
Thomas Shey
Legend
That was what I thought. I just don't understand exactly how it operates that I wanted to make an authoritative statement here.
mamba
Hero
this (Twitter and Musk) is yet to be determined...
I've been playing a 4e game for almost a year so I'm pretty familiar with unofficial distribution methods.
Tazawa
Adventurer
More than just helpful extras. The free SRD content on Roll20 makes it much much easier to play 5e. It would be too much work for me to do it without it.
overgeeked
B/X Known World
What work? You just click to roll the dice and handle everything analog like you would at the table. A character sheet that automatically calculates things and has a button to press to roll this skill or that attack absolutely is a helpful extra.
