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[Loud Whispers]

SRS BSNS M8

[timferius]

I have to say, I'm really excited for 6th edition now. I think the new system will allow for a lot of flexibility in both playing and DMing. I'm already preparing my party to switch over.

[Sergius]

I think it's great that they're embracing the Free2Play model, even though they will still charge you for the core rulebooks. So it's more like a Buy2Rent system which is so popular with things like iPhones. Actually owning the stuff you buy is so annoying sometimes.

Some people probably won't like the hard restriction against making house rules, but I don't think the police will bother with some gamers in a random basement brewing their own variants of D&D, so it's a law that probably won't be enforced. Much.

[Tawa]

hard restriction against making house rules

WHAT HERESY IS THIS?

[My Name is Immaterial]

hard restriction against making house rules

WHAT HERESY IS THIS?

The Horus Heresy started today, you know.

[GiglameshDespair]

Horus pranking the Emperor went a tad too far.

[Tack]

Oh My God they made DLC for a tabletop game.
IS. NOTHING. SACRED.


This is the same plague that's beginning to befoul Warhammer.

[nenjin]

To be fair, GWS mastered the art of making the fan pay a lot for a little at a time millennia ago.

[penguinofhonor]

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[scriver]

hard restriction against making house rules

WHAT HERESY IS THIS?

They clarified it in a hold post - they're going to make it so by using the DnD product/license, you agree to a legal contract of using the rules as is and only as is, ie no house rules or homebrew. They feel that the potential for "pirated campaigns" or "intellectual campaign piracy", so to speak, is too great.

[Bauglir]

To be fair, GWS mastered the art of making the fan pay a lot for a little at a time millennia ago.

Well, yeah, but lately they've realized they were pricing themselves out of the market, so they opened up the intellectual property so that you only need to pay a very small royalty fee on earnings, started publishing 3D printer schematics for all their miniatures, and sell the actual figures for material + shipping + 5%.

In related news, D&D Tomorrow will be exactly the same as 4E.

[timferius]

hard restriction against making house rules

WHAT HERESY IS THIS?

They clarified it in a hold post - they're going to make it so by using the DnD product/license, you agree to a legal contract of using the rules as is and only as is, ie no house rules or homebrew. They feel that the potential for "pirated campaign", so to speak, is too great.

Hmm, it makes sense, good on them for protecting their IP. I wonder if they're going to go after Paizo and Pathfinder soon. Some blatant infringement there.

[Reelya]

Maybe they can officially license all this stuff then and make you pay for DLC for settings. e.g. by banning house rules, no-one can upload e.g. a set of Dr Who house rules without getting shut down. But the WotC company can then license a Dr Who setting and sell the ebook for cash.

They might not be able to stop you homebrewing in the basement but the license can stop you from sharing your creations.

[Sergius]

The no-houserule/homebrew clause is partially to avoid people skirting the law and seeking loopholes by making up their own content after character level 5th, since you need to buy a special token in the Wizards store to unlock more levels and campaigns. Also some more "liberal" DMs might houserule that stuff like Premium Fireballs (that do 2x the damage of regular free Fireball spells) aren't allowed or just bump the free spell's damage to match the Premium ones. That's basically the same thing as illegally downloading a car.

[penguinofhonor]

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