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Giganotosaurus said:
Ok, is that a d4 for damage or something else?
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Actually I have a real issue with low damage weapons in a vaguely D&D environment. So you have some thing like a blowpipe that does, in more than one system, something like 1d3 damage. Then you have a spear that does 1d6. And then some happy fucker wants to explain how two little bitty darts are the same as a spear in your spleen. Anyway, first world problems...
 
Bunch said:
I don't keep up with the various CC licenses. I'm assuming this allows for commercial work as before? Does this accomplish the same as OGL1.0a or do you still need 1.0a if you want to release some for general use and some bits are reserved?
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It really depends on what they're releasing to CC as a part of that. I believe someone did an analysis, and the only thing they were releasing CC were the parts that didn't even need to be licensed.
 
chuckdee said:
It really depends on what they're releasing to CC as a part of that. I believe someone did an analysis, and the only thing they were releasing CC were the parts that didn't even need to be licensed.
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No, it's the whole SRD now....which is actually pretty significant
 
What I want to come from this (and what I see happening) is for people to take licensing their games seriously, and look at what they want to do- not only now, but in the future. And then invest to make it happen. Though they relented, I think the seeds of that fight have already taken root, and are too entrenched to be fully taken out. I see people taking licensing with the seriousness it deserves, and start to look at their own licensing efforts.

I also think what Wizards could have done to show that they were really listening was to turn the OGL over to an independent body, to make sure this does not happen again.
 
I don’t care what anyone says about the OGL. It was one of the greatests gifts ever given to the hobby and the reason people were so up in arms about it being deauthorized were because it was such a precious commodity. Everyone talks about everything being open source now, but in the 90s that was unthinkable. No company is under any obligation to make anything open source, so it can’t be taken for granted what the OGL did.
 
D&D didn’t need to be saved. Third edition did fine and would have done fine even without the OGL, because they realized what mistakes TSR made as far as what they published. They made some awful business decisions in the 90s, like making a gazillion setting products that nobody wanted. I think they probably spent more on printing than they got back on revenue near the end. Wizards published more wisely.
 
I know it's popular to hate on D&D but I feel that having a strong near ubiquitous tentpole serves the whole community. Does it have to be D&D? No but it is. We are in a hobby that requires groups of people to meet semi consistently with shared rules to play. Our hobby is bigger and better for having a common language to trade in. I think if we lose that strong central pillar we lose a starting point that rallies enough people to even try RPGs. It also gives a large buyer pool for new authors to sell too and create their voice.
We may be getting to the time where everyone can go online and be sure to find a group for whatever they want to play when they want but I don't think we're there yet.
 
Bunch said:
We may be getting to the time where everyone can go online and be sure to find a group for whatever they want to play when they want but I don't think we're there yet.
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Yeah, no one wants to play my Elfen Lied + Watership Down mashup using an adaptation of the Rocky & Bullwinkle RPG yet
 
A Fiery Flying Roll said:
The CC license is objectively better than the OGL license ever was. (With hindsight, the doomsayers who said the OGL was a trap were right).
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That was my impression as well. Congrats to robertsconley robertsconley for his steady critical advocacy, he managed to be articulate and steady as usual AND not embarrass himself.
 
Bunch said:
I still can't get folks to play Rocky & Bullwinkle with me. They freak out when I show them the hand puppets
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Need to find this game, I assume it is selling for absurdly high prices these days.
 
Ironically this whole experience has burned me out on not just 5e and WotC D&D but most of the OSR.

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I think the whole thing has reinforced for me how unhealthily obsessed with D&D the hobby is.

Need a break from fantasy rpgs. Get a CoC or some other game up and running...
 
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Moracai said:
What is the City of Union? All I found was this, and it has fuckall to do with D&D...
https://www.cityofunionky.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/CITY-OF-UNION-RFQ.pdf
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