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<blockquote data-quote="Benjamin Olson" data-source="post: 8907106" data-attributes="member: 6988941">So I'm much happier with WotC today than I've been in a fortnight or so. In part because I no longer need them, and am no longer trapped in a somewhat unhealthy relationship with them. They've set unambiguously free the necessary pieces for a thousand people to make clones or other games that any 5e player could learn in an afternoon. They've also made it clear that non-clone games can unambiguously incorporate things like advantage/disadvantage or use the same skills without fear of a lawsuit from Hasbro. Things like the iconic six D&amp;D ability scores and the alignment system now unambiguously belong to everyone. Generally the legal status of any game taking substantial inspiration from D&amp;D is much clearer.I still have little confidence in WotC, but whatever doom they take themselves to they've done the gaming community a tremendous favor today.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Benjamin Olson, post: 8907106, member: 6988941"] So I'm much happier with WotC today than I've been in a fortnight or so. In part because I no longer need them, and am no longer trapped in a somewhat unhealthy relationship with them. They've set [I]unambiguously [/I]free the necessary pieces for a thousand people to make clones or other games that any 5e player could learn in an afternoon. They've also made it clear that non-clone games can [I]unambiguously [/I]incorporate things like [I]advantage/disadvantage[/I] or use the same skills without fear of a lawsuit from Hasbro. Things like the iconic six D&D ability scores and the alignment system now [I]unambiguously[/I] belong to everyone. Generally the legal status of any game taking substantial inspiration from D&D is much clearer. I still have little confidence in WotC, but whatever doom they take themselves to they've done the gaming community a tremendous favor today. [/QUOTE]

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