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Given that some of the biggest publishers have moved on to different open licenses (CC, ORC -- did Kobold do their own too?), I think this ship has sailed. I suppose it's possible that if WotC magically released a explicitly-irrevocable OGL, people might gravitate back to that, but even if they...

Network effects, if they manage to stay the market leader. The more people that publish compatible stuff for D&D that people like, the more demand there is for D&D overall, and the more people that seek out the core D&D books, or other things that the compatible stuff builds off of. Of course...

A "slew" is an understatement. Lots of people published lots of things under OGL. Somebody might want to combine some of that with something newer, but they can't. Over the history of the OGL, pulling from lots of different previous sources was a very common practice.

Are they releasing them under the OGL? WotC released the 5e SRD under Creative Commons, so you can use that. But, they did not release earlier editions under CC. So, if you want to use that stuff, or stuff that was derived from it, you have to use the OGL. Which is chancy, because it's not...

Yes, and this is one of the sad fallouts of the whole thing. They did effectively invalidate the OGL for future use. The only thing their backing down did was not (...for now...) prohibit the distribution of previously-published things that used the OGL. But publishers by and large will never...

What I remember being the single most egregious thing about the WOTC OGL fiasco was their attempting to de-validate the existing OGL. Having such a crappy deal for 5.5e was bad enough, but that was far worse. It would have retroactively removed permissions for publication from a large number of...

Ok, thanks, that's all good.

Because I got burned on the Discworld Humble Bundle, I want to check before considering buying: is the Free League mega bundle DRM-free PDFs? (A quick scan of the page didn't answer that for me )

I remember battlemats of that era; still have at least one somewhere in here. Does the [tm] version of battlemat even still exist? Nowadays we use it as a generic term, and there are a million varieties.

If you put 1,945,321 coins in a portable hole, does the entire thing collapse and eject all the coins to the Ethereal plane?

Matt Riggsby wrote a "Renaissance Venice" supplement for GURPS (carrying on the longstanding tradition of "GURPS HIstoricals"): https://www.sjgames.com/gurps/books/hotspots/renaissancevenice/

I have to admit, I was very attracted to this, but it totally lost me when I saw that to get the endings, you used a QR code to go to a web server. This doesn't completely undermine it, of course, but it changes its category from a book that you can buy and keep in your library to cultural...

Steve Jackson is talking, on the shelf behind him is Car Wars by Steve Jackson.. but not by him.

The recognition of that sin in investigative scenarios is cited as one of the driving forces behind the creation of Pelgrane's "Gumshoe" system (used in Trail of Cthulhu, Swords of the Serpentine, Timewatch, Night's Black Agents, and others).

Do the original three WOIN books have an open license, or is there a version (SRD or whatever) of them that does?