moths posted:

Newly minted 5e grogs raging on D&DOne is going to be the weirdest Deja Vu.

hyphz posted:

Because for a group activity, five people saying "meh" is better than four saying "yeah" and one saying "no way".

Bottom Liner posted:

Then do it for int and wis too. 4 stat supremacy.

Piell posted:

Relevant OGL 1.1 text

Under 1.1 you can't sell anything but static files. That means no stuff like encounter/character builders, but also you can't do stuff like adventures that automatically set up everything for stuff like Foundry or Fantasy Grounds

Piell posted:

Yes, but you can't do so if you want to do 3.X or 5E stuff. The point of this change is WotC wants to make other VTTs much more difficult to use for 5E/OneD&D in order to drive people to use their upcoming VTT

Piell posted:

The OGL is the license for what D&D stuff you can use.
The license says "This license only applies to materials You create for use in or as roleplaying games and as game supplements and only as printed media and static electronic files such as epubs or pdfs. It does not allow the distribution of any other form of media. And does not apply to creation of anything else."
Therefore you cannot use it for anything that isn't static, like a character/encounter builder or an adventure for a VTT that automatically sets up all the maps and NPCs and items

Piell posted:

Not at all, which was very annoying because that was my main issue with their coverage

Goa Tse-tung posted:

for the record: Das Schwarze Auge (Arkania or The Dark Eye) has had opposed rolls since the 90s, and my recollection from back then: combat drags out too long

That Old Tree posted:

White Wolf built a subcultural phenomenon on the most unnecessary number of rolls to resolve single actions in 1991.

PST posted:

You're not the executive producer of D&D though, are you?

Kwyndig posted:

Yeah but doing that says something, if you're in charge of a product, and you don't even care to use it for work related reasons,

quote:

it shows that you don't believe in the product. This is just bad optics. It'd be like if the president of a grocery store chain never attended a single store opening. I certainly wouldn't shop there if senior management can't even put in the effort for a photo op. So why should I use D&D Beyond if the head of D&D himself doesn't have an account?

Warthur posted:

I feel like "engaging with the community on D&D Beyond" and "Make important announcements through that platform" would be fairly obvious work-related reasons.

Really, for me I don't care whether this person uses a private alt account to do actual gaming, that's fine. I even don't mind if they minted a new work account for the first time they needed to perform either of those functions on Beyond.

The question to me is "How long were they in this role before they decided to perform one of those functions in the first place?" It feels like if you are the executive director of D&D during an intensive playtesting process which unfolds in part on Beyond, you should have been making some announcements on Beyond on a work account before now.

CHaKKaWaKka posted:

It might look like Monte's post is about the OGL but I'm now convinced he's the one who shot Kennet Hite.

moths posted:

Providing specific page numbers also reveals how seriously the D&D1 feedback is(n't) being considered.

Megazver posted:

I wouldn't mind a version of Genesys with fewer special snowflake dice, tbh.

Boba Pearl posted:

Like Compare the 5e Race List with the PF2e heritage list and tell me which is more interesting.

The Bee posted:

How distinct was Pathfinder's PHB from 3.5's? I feel like that's the minimum bar Kobold needs to clear, and even then the market circumstances that enabled Pathfinder aren't 1 to 1 with the current situation.

Siivola posted:

bloated and just kind of arcane.

MadScientistWorking posted:

No. Not really. You can still hide from lifesense.

MadScientistWorking posted:

Easy. Lifesense doesn't say it circumvents line of sight so why can't you do what you do normally? The safety precautions come off as you doing it to avoid contact standing out in the middle of open.

Bottom Liner posted:

Narsham posted:

Source Keywords: Arcane, Divine, Martial, Psionic; 4E registers the source of powers for PCs. I haven't played for a long time but these keywords don't seem very helpful when, say, Cleric powers all have the Divine keyword. I suppose they matter for multiclassing, but I don't think these keywords came up in play much, so they may not be needed.

NinjaDebugger posted:

There are literally thousands of years of real world magical bullshit to compare to and all of it is at least as sensical as D&D.

MadScientistWorking posted:

As far as I can tell there are only two sense that penetrate through solid objects. Tremorsense and I swear that there's one lets you see ghosts in walls.