I ran a d6 west end games "DC Beyond" based on mixing comics and animated lore into a batman beyond future... and one player pitched "son of aquaman anddolphin" who had slight increased str and agility, a very limited invulnerability, a super speed that only worked when submerged, the ability to talk to fish... NO ability to breath underwater and a crippling fear of drowning... like he could not take baths or go in pools, only showers....
Yup. An aquatic superhero who couldn't swim due to buoyancy issues.
If expressed as a mathemical formula it would be:
Ah, Shadowrun syndrome.
For BOTH Shadow run and Rifts (and D&D settings for that matter) may I suggest TORG. the new TORG eteranal system LOOKs like the baked in setting is needed, but you can totally peal out parts and run anything
I haven't bought many of the adventures, but I bought Rime of the Frostmaiden twice - once on Roll20 and once on DDB. I was running it on Roll20 so having all the maps, tokens and hand-outs prepped there was really good, but on the other hand I found it a lot easier to actually read the adventure and run monsters and NPCs via DDB.
"Was this game/setting born in the 90s?" Syndrome.
That is why I have Curse of Strahd twice. I have it in book and roll20
I think the Roll 20 modules offer enough value to warrant purchasing a "book" you already own again. Though, I'm less sold on DDB, mostly I would be interested in the electronic format and the character sheet automation. You could just get that with a hyperlinked PDF and there are third party character sheets that automate all that content too so I've never really seen the value proposition there.
Hey World of Darkness has a pretty functional system.
I mean, that's pretty much a moot point if no publisher publishes under it, isn't it?
Saying something is a lost cause doesn't make it so.
Eh, if a court ruled that the OGL 1.0a could not in fact be revoked, deauthorized or similar buzzword by WotC, then I think at least the closer clones in the OSR would probably keep publishing under it, just because then they wouldn't have to rename spells and such.
Perhaps, you also have to factor in whether anybody trusts WOTC to abide by an agreement they made into perpetuity. Because nobody wants to be here again in another 20 years. That's the bigger factor, I think.
Nobody would have to trust them. They would have tried messing with it and a judge would have ruled "no, you can't". At that point, it doesn't really matter that it says copyright Wizards of the Coast on the document, it would be entirely out of their hands, as there would be a court ruling, not just an expectation based on what the document says and how and why it was designed, that WotC can't mess with it.
I never played original RIFTS, but the offical Savage Worlds version is a lot of fun to play.
I mean, it would depend on the ruling and on what grounds it was decided. Even in your hypothetical there isn't anything stopping WOTC from simply trying again with a different legal argument to rugpull the OGL again. I think the well is truly poisoned, unfortunately.
That assumes they learned nothing from this and they do try again. Also, theoretically every successive attempt should get even weaker, as they will always try to attack the 'biggest' gaps / loopholes, only for those to be shut
