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[Vector]

I'm in a similar boat. Got the Core Rulebook on a sale awhile ago, but haven't been invested enough to read the whole thing yet. A sci-fi setting based on a utopian futuristic version of Native American cultures sounded interesting enough on a broader scale, but when I skimmed a few pages I didn't see something smaller scale to hook me deeper.

They have the Tales of the Free Lands coming out soon and some tie-in novels and stuff. I think that should help in terms of understanding what to do.

[scriver]

You all hear about the new OGL update? Hasbro is trying to make the 1.0 obsolete using an update clause to declare the 1.0 no longer authorised, in an impressive move of legal quantum abrogation which probably is illegal but the courts will decide most like

Finally all my dnd wiki entries will become official content

[Loud Whispers]

Finally all my dnd wiki entries will become official content

the 5e furry class is now canon

[Kagus]

Finally all my dnd wiki entries will become official content

the 5e furry class is now canon

I cast Yiff!



Considering a goblin armorer for a level 3 one-shot where we've been contracted to explore some ruins for historically important artifacts. He's been hired on as a science specialist, due to a misunderstanding when he declared that he specialized in "shinies". Probably. Any good explanations for why he's missing an arm? So far all I've got for options is "Unspecified sandwich incident", but feel like that's a bit on the nose.

[scriver]

OGL development: https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/10ay63m/dnd_beyond_an_update_on_the_open_game_license_ogl/

Immediate edit: Maybe I should have also linked the Dnd Beyond article and not just the reddit thread

So it seems to me what they're basically saying is:
"We wanted to"
1, Keep out the nazis. Everyone agrees that the nazis are bad, that's why they are our enemy. Don't you want us to fight the nazis? We need control of and the ability to monetise your content to fight the nazis. If you disagree with this point you are clearly a nazi
2. Prevent NFTs! Since our feelers for MTG nfts were met with negativity and the public opinion has turned against them in general, we should mention them here because they are relevant to the times or something and clearly we need to control your content to prevent you from making NFTs out of our already protected IPs and trademarks
3. Make sure it is you, the fan, the individual, the creator, the maverick, and not those nasty Big RPG corpos that make money off of our OGL. This is totally not an attempt to make sure that, should you ever happen into offshooting off DnD into your own fame like those Nasties Paizo and Critical Role did, we would be able to stop you and reap all the economic and promotional benefit from your creativity, work, and expenses.

[Loud Whispers]

This reeks of the same copium Blizard-Activision did over the WC3 editor producing DOTA II. "Yes we know you made this, yes we know we did nothing, so how can we make you pay anyways?"

[McTraveller]

It's the inherent drawback of the entire concept of intellectual property.

Sure there are benefits to the concept, but it grants massive opportunity for abuse.

This is especially true for copyright-style IP, because "derivative works" is an oddity - the new works are not modifying or even incorporating an instance of existing works - they are merely "based on" other works.  This is different even from patent stuff, where at least there's an argument that if you make a widget that uses patent material, you do have an "instance" of the patent material in each instance of the widget.

But if I have a story about a character named Rodrigo, and someone else makes a story about 'what if Rodrigo had this adventure...' - while I understand this is a legally derivative work, it's not a physically derivative work; the test should be, "if the potentially derivative work can exist without the "parent" work existing at all, or if the "parent" work can be substituted out for an alternate implementation (for the "software library" or "modular component" case), the work isn't derivative."

[Egan_BW]

All works are derivative. Copyright just favors less explicitly derivative works. ;p

[Loud Whispers]

Inb4 the entirety of Arthurian legend from the 21st century to the first celtic bards gets erased because it isn't monetisable enough

[Robsoie]

I was going to ask what's going to happen with OSRIC, but in the article i also noticed

Content already released under 1.0a will also remain unaffected.

and fortunately OSRIC (http://www.knights-n-knaves.com/osric/s1.html)

Terms used herein are as defined in the OPEN GAME LICENSE Version 1.0a

[Horizon]

3.5 was the golden age of D&D...And waaaay too many books but hell I got to play a Necromancer with an ACTUAL repetoire(?) of necromancy spells from UA Necromancy and David Cooks Sword & Sorcery splatbooks. I miss it, ngl it was fun.

[Horizon]

Okay ye this OGL nonsense is bs

[Loud Whispers]

Okay ye this OGL nonsense is bs

Now Hasbro lost >40,000 subscribers after news was leaked they were planning to do a >$30 subscription service

You know what your tabletop needs?

DLC

[Horizon]

Okay ye this OGL nonsense is bs

Now Hasbro lost >40,000 subscribers after news was leaked they were planning to do a >$30 subscription service

You know what your tabletop needs?

DLC

We already had that in 3.5.

[King Zultan]

Aren't most expansions to tabletop games kind of like DLC?