Vapourware WOTC restricting content creation in new OGL - Paizo launches competing OGL - lol cancelled

[Dadd]

So if current day DnD fans are abandoning WoTC is it time to embrace DnD? The may problem with the modern game is its fans. If they were gone it would be fine.

No

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Oubliettes and Ogresses.

It's german dungeon porn + Fiona rule 34.

Now I just sit and wait for royalties.

Fiona is already royalty though

 

[JamesDixon]

Oubliettes and Ogresses.

It's german dungeon porn + Fiona rule 34.

Now I just sit and wait for royalties.

Fiona is already royalty though

Even Fiona the ugly crack whore on the corner?

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

Catacombs and Carrion Crawlers

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Oubliettes and Ogresses.

It's german dungeon porn + Fiona rule 34.

Now I just sit and wait for royalties.

Fiona is already royalty though

Even Fiona the ugly crack whore on the corner?

Did you just assume her lineage?

 

[JamesDixon]

Oubliettes and Ogresses.

It's german dungeon porn + Fiona rule 34.

Now I just sit and wait for royalties.

Fiona is already royalty though

Even Fiona the ugly crack whore on the corner?

Did you just assume her lineage?

Yes....

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Oh ok then.

 

[Nortar]

Catacombs and Carrion Crawlers

Everyone knows that С&C is an integral part of any decent RPG.

 

[JamesDixon]

D&D Beyond is in dire straits.

 

[Orud]

Catacombs and Carrion Crawlers

That'll have to be 'Catacombs and Centipedes', because 'Carrion Crawlers' is regarded as part of D&D's product identity. See: http://www.d20srd.org/faq.htm

The following monsters are considered "Product Identity" by Wizards of the Coast and are therefore not part of the SRD:

• beholder
• gauth
• carrion crawler
• displacer beast
• githyanki
• githzerai
• kuo-toa
• mind flayer
• slaad
• umber hulk
• yuan-ti

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Catacombs and Carrion Crawlers

That'll have to be 'Catacombs and Centipedes', because 'Carrion Crawlers' is regarded as part of D&D's product identity. See: http://www.d20srd.org/faq.htm

The following monsters are considered "Product Identity" by Wizards of the Coast and are therefore not part of the SRD:

• beholder
• gauth
• carrion crawler
• displacer beast
• githyanki
• githzerai
• kuo-toa
• mind flayer
• slaad
• umber hulk
• yuan-ti

Ok so Mental Flagellants are good.

 

[JamesDixon]

Catacombs and Carrion Crawlers

That'll have to be 'Catacombs and Centipedes', because 'Carrion Crawlers' is regarded as part of D&D's product identity. See: http://www.d20srd.org/faq.htm

The following monsters are considered "Product Identity" by Wizards of the Coast and are therefore not part of the SRD:

• beholder
• gauth
• carrion crawler
• displacer beast
• githyanki
• githzerai
• kuo-toa
• mind flayer
• slaad
• umber hulk
• yuan-ti

No trademark exists for all but mind flayer and beholder. Of which Mind Flayer is registered to some guy in China. Beholder is registered to many different individuals for different products.

You can't copyright names, but you can copyright specific images with a name and it applies only to that visual representation. Wizards would lose out on this considering almost all of their creatures are based upon mythology and folklore. What's funny is that they lay claim to the Kuo-Toa which are D&D's version of the Deep Ones by H.P. Lovecraft. Lovecraft's works are in the public domain like all other mythological creatures are.

 

[Melan]

Now this is interesting. An anonymous leak about the plans going forward:


...confirmed by a leaked internal presentation screenshot from last August.

You will roll the cyberpeasant dice (that never roll natty 20s) and you will be happy.

 

[Demo.Graph]

Catacombs and Centipedes

Caverns and Cockatrices
Oubliettes and One-eyed snakes
Missus and Monsters

 

[Orud]

No trademark exists for all but mind flayer and beholder. Of which Mind Flayer is registered to some guy in China. Beholder is registered to many different individuals for different products.

You can't copyright names, but you can copyright specific images with a name and it applies only to that visual representation. Wizards would lose out on this considering almost all of their creatures are based upon mythology and folklore. What's funny is that they lay claim to the Kuo-Toa which are D&D's version of the Deep Ones by H.P. Lovecraft. Lovecraft's works are in the public domain like all other mythological creatures are.

You are right and I agree with your points.

What I was trying to imply is that, considering what they're trying to do with this new OGL bullshit, D&D's owners would try to bully anyone using that name/design in a tabletop system. While they wouldn't have any legal standing, any litigation is a far larger burden for small business owners or hobbyists (as stated in an earlier post).

They've shown to be snakes and will abuse their position.

 

[Acrux]

Honest question: what is D&D Beyond? Are people actually paying a subscription to play nuDND? For real - what is the benefit?

 

[JamesDixon]

Now this is interesting. An anonymous leak about the plans going forward:


...confirmed by a leaked internal presentation screenshot from last August.

You will roll the cyberpeasant dice (that never roll natty 20s) and you will be happy.

They just became Roll20, Foundry, and Tabletop Simulator's salesmen of the year.

What I was trying to imply is that, considering what they're trying to do with this new OGL bullshit, D&D's owners would try to bully anyone using that name/design in a tabletop system. While they wouldn't have any legal standing, any litigation is a far larger burden for small business owners or hobbyists (as stated in an earlier post).

That's old thinking before the internet as it is today. All it takes is crowd funding. Do you honestly think that people won't support a person taking on a company that is abusing its position? They will and have in the past. Combine that with an active boycott against anything Hasbro they'll be posting losses before the next quarter is out. Already people are beginning to organize and boycott everything Hasbro.

Honest question: what is D&D Beyond? Are people actually paying a subscription to play nuDND? For real - what is the benefit?

It's basically their virtual tabletop. The market is already crowded with VTT and their move with D&Done will force the individual VTT companies to band together to sue Hasbro for abusing their position as a monopoly. The US federal government may take an interest in this, especially when it comes to claiming copyrights over mathematical formulas as that's a monopoly.

 

[Matalarata]

No one registered Finders & Flumphs?

Amateurs...

 

[whocares]

I will not eat the bugs. I will not live in a pod. I will not use 2FA.

 

[Dadd]

All this social media outrage, but would the fans have the restraint to stop throwing money at WotC for a long enough time for WotC to reconsider its scummy ways?

 

[JamesDixon]

All this social media outrage, but would the fans have the restraint to stop throwing money at WotC for a long enough time for WotC to reconsider its scummy ways?

Many of the YouTube creators are backing away from Wizards and their fans are leaving with them. Although it's a hoot to see them say they'll support Paizo and other woke companies.

 

[Ismaul]

Ok calling dibs on Brigs and Barbarians

Should be Babes & Barbarians

What is best in life, eh?

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Ok calling dibs on Brigs and Barbarians

Should be Babes & Barbarians

What is best in life, eh?

Crom gives you a thumbs up from his mountain.

 

[JamesDixon]

Ok calling dibs on Brigs and Barbarians

Should be Babes & Barbarians

What is best in life, eh?

Crom gives you a thumbs up from his mountain.

But he wouldn't... Crom only cares about the secret of steel.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Ok calling dibs on Brigs and Barbarians

Should be Babes & Barbarians

What is best in life, eh?

Crom gives you a thumbs up from his mountain.

But he wouldn't... Crom only cares about the secret of steel.

Dude we sorted that out long back. The secret of steel is 2% carbon and 1% other metals.