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One interesting aspect of looking at the #OneDnD playtest documents is that it makes me realize things that I didn't fully process in all the years of running #DnD5e. For example, I knew the Artificer is a class that is very dependent on its subclasses for its identity.
It never struck me how true this was for druids as well. The core druid is a very thin framework on which to hang subclasses, with the subclasses doing a lot of heavy lifting. This became even more true as subclasses started using Wild Shape as a player currency for abilities.
What's even more interesting about THAT development is that we're seeing a lot of One D&D developments that come from recent design, like from Tasha's forward, but Wild Shape as currency for non-wild shape stuff comes in pretty early.
Some thoughts on languages based on what we've seen in #OneDnD so far. Backgrounds have really added to how many languages PCs are likely to know, since language is an assumed thing that you get from backgrounds.
When you add that to classes that get a special language, you have a ton of languages that exist all over the place and probably won't do much other than remove a reason for the PCs not be able to receive information from a clue.
My general thought is, D&D actually needs to proliferate its languages rather than condense them. For example, drow used to have their own language, but in the interest of consolidation, they are now likely to speak Elven or Undercommon, with no distinct drow language.
So i finally got my hands on the full legal text of the OGL 1.1, and now I can safely look at all of its parts, and how they would affect me as a publisher (and other small publishers) #DnD #OneDnD #dnd5e #wotc
Starting from the top, they really go out of their way to define commercial and non-commercial.
especially when it comes to KS and patreon
especially when it comes to KS and patreon
"If you’re giving your work away for free, on Patreon or otherwise, and asking that people support your work if they enjoy it, that’s not commercial. But your work must be given without strings attached if it’s going to be considered “noncommercial.”
Frustrated for a non-medical reason! 😲
The leaked #OGL update (1.1) from WoTC looks to do some real damage to the #DnD community. It's going to deter independent content creators: threatening royalties and ability to claim this content as WoTC/Hasbro.
The leaked #OGL update (1.1) from WoTC looks to do some real damage to the #DnD community. It's going to deter independent content creators: threatening royalties and ability to claim this content as WoTC/Hasbro.
It looks to replace OGL 1.0, so even content out there now could be affected.
@Wizards_DnD @Hasbro - seriously reconsider this. DnD has had the biggest resurgence because of these content creators that you're after. Think!
@Wizards_DnD @Hasbro - seriously reconsider this. DnD has had the biggest resurgence because of these content creators that you're after. Think!
First starts off with books, campaigns and other content. Next it will be online tools. It will close the community right down!
Full support behind #OpenDnD project. Strongly considering cancelled #DnDBeyond sub! Don't want to know anymore about #OneDnD until this is sorted!
Full support behind #OpenDnD project. Strongly considering cancelled #DnDBeyond sub! Don't want to know anymore about #OneDnD until this is sorted!
One thing WotC is likely missing with the new OGL 1.1:
Tightly restricting the 3pp market for D&D is going to cause a huge drain of the talent pool for D&D writers, including the ones that WotC hires, which will directly harm WotC's ability to produce content.
#OpenDnD
Tightly restricting the 3pp market for D&D is going to cause a huge drain of the talent pool for D&D writers, including the ones that WotC hires, which will directly harm WotC's ability to produce content.
#OpenDnD
I'm not an RPG product creator, so my understanding is limited to what people have told me about their own experiences.
I'm sure I have some of this wrong, so if you know better, please correct me.
I'm sure I have some of this wrong, so if you know better, please correct me.
My understanding is that it's a hard career, and people who do this full time are mostly freelancers. Most of the work is contracts, and you need to both work multiple contracts and constantly seek out your next projects. You see the same names in credits in a lot of projects.
#OpenDnD
Headline info for those making paid content using the future OGL.
- Accept the license terms and let us know what you’re offering for sale
- Report OGL-related revenue annually (if you make more than $50,000 in a year)
- Include a Creator Product badge on your work
Headline info for those making paid content using the future OGL.
- Accept the license terms and let us know what you’re offering for sale
- Report OGL-related revenue annually (if you make more than $50,000 in a year)
- Include a Creator Product badge on your work
Companies making over $750k on OGL products will have to pay a royalty from 2024 on revenue over that 750 mark.
I think the requirement to report OGL-related revenue is 100% a precursor to making money off smaller folks in the future too.
I think the requirement to report OGL-related revenue is 100% a precursor to making money off smaller folks in the future too.
Reading over this I do not feel better about the situation at all.
#OneDnD is being advertised as an evolution, a backwards compatible growth from 5e. I think as we move forward that will be less and less true.
#OneDnD is being advertised as an evolution, a backwards compatible growth from 5e. I think as we move forward that will be less and less true.
Everything you don’t know about #monopoly:
And speaking about assumed monopolies:
Given the current glacial state of the #ttrpg hobby, this is the kind of content that you can post every day while waiting for the penny to drop for some relevant number of people.
There is a whole lot into going on the the most recent UA, so we're on episode three of @BrandesStoddard and @DMSamuel look at it, and I'm here for it, because #oneDnd is now taking up an inordinant amount of my brainspace. Don't be ADD online and have things you care about.
Anyway, since I've got three blog posts on this, as well as potentially mutiple episodes of @Thac0wA looking at this as well, I again don't have TOO much to say about this episode, other than that Brandes and Sam have some great insights into this.
Brandes and Sam dive into some discussion of if #dnd5e will be supported in the future on D&D Beyond, and the wider philosophy of digital "ownership" of material. I think this is an important discussion to have.
So, I have some #DnD #dnd5e thoughts:
TL;DR: MAKE SPELL LISTS FOR YOUR SETTING! 🎨
They are great at tying mechanics and flavour together, while also giving you a greater understanding of the setting you are in. They require a bit of work though.
Long 🧵👇
TL;DR: MAKE SPELL LISTS FOR YOUR SETTING! 🎨
They are great at tying mechanics and flavour together, while also giving you a greater understanding of the setting you are in. They require a bit of work though.
Long 🧵👇
So, a short explanation for the uninitiated:
In D&D each player character has a class. Some classes have access to magic spells. Which spells are available to you is dictated by a class spell list.
In D&D each player character has a class. Some classes have access to magic spells. Which spells are available to you is dictated by a class spell list.
Any given spell is associated with one or more spell lists. So there is some overlap, but each spell list defines the capabilities of its corresponding spellcasting class.
Not every challenge is a skeleton with a rusty spear- Trap Filled Dungeon! An 8-phased battlemap where each room is chock-full of dangerous challenges. Each is treated as its own micro-phased map so the Dm can reset the phases!
#dungeonsanddragons #onednd @inkarnaterpg
#dungeonsanddragons #onednd @inkarnaterpg
Very happy with this map! It's an 8-phased romp through a collection of classic dungeon traps and tropes. I wanted to give something new a try- this map is meant to be played as kind of a series of small encounters-
@inkarnaterpg each room you enter the Dm should hide the other rooms and run all 8 phases in that room! Like a bunch of smaller contained phased maps!
#ttrpgfamily #TTRPGRising
#ttrpgfamily #TTRPGRising
So much of what I'm seeing about this #OneDND attempt to remix race and background in D&D amounts to the difference between trying really hard to demonstrate that one is Aware Of A Problem and trying to understand the problem and address it.
The steps in recent 5E books of replacing race-specific ability score adjustments with a freeform "Increase one score by +2 and another one by +1, or three different scores by +1" and letting players pick their languages were steps in a better direction...
...and it's dispiriting to see that they're apparently going from de-emphasizing/de-mechanizing race to re-emphasizing it but in a slightly different way. They seem to be rebuilding what they were dismantling.
There are numerous issues with the presentation of mixed races in #OneDND.
DND’s mechanisation of race makes depicting mixed races fraught with issues because of the specific kinds of racism we face – such as blood quantums and being seen as “parts of” or not “full” people. 1/16
DND’s mechanisation of race makes depicting mixed races fraught with issues because of the specific kinds of racism we face – such as blood quantums and being seen as “parts of” or not “full” people. 1/16
Prior to this the main way mixed races were represented in DND was half-orcs and half-elves. Those names imply what I mentioned above, that they’re not seen as full people, but as “half” of one side of their heritage - the least human one (or the least white) 2/16
Both were extremely couched in further negative narratives about mixed race people – most notably the tragic mulatto trope, and being abominations, outcast for being mixed, who never fully belong or are never fully accepted anywhere. And more. 3/16
