Odds are he did this to help out his estate and keep a character present, but I suspect the concern is more an extrapolation. Individual licensing rights (possibly with mechanisms for review/control by the estate) to a company who wants to keep it above board? That’s good. As others will come to the market with…

They do now. And they probably still *will*. But even though you’re being ‘credited’ you’re still basically invisible, like the countless extras and artists that nobody knows or cares about. The audience will never see you. They’ll never hear you. They’ll see and hear *some famous name* even though that ‘famous name’…

The issue of how to properly credit the work — the voice might be Jones, but he isn’t doing the performance in any way, shape or form, so how do you ‘credit’ the work? To whom do you credit the work? This is actually an issue that is steadily building momentum as recreations of iconic actors and actresses become more…

For this, not much, but the presence of it and how it won’t be surprising when it gets used by estates after peoples’ passing could be the real problem. 

Omg I LOLed.

Good paper, thanks for the reference.

I just wanted to congratulate you on reporting on this issue responsibly. Format aside, the fact that you actually addressed the way these issues are deeply politicized and how difficult it is to find truth is admirable, especially considering how US media outlets are content to be mouthpieces of US policy. The US…

I like the clarity you offered. I can understand if an articles is “less” scientific and just reporting something for a mass audience but once a writer digs deeper, the deep dive information should be accurate. Thanks.

How about “gut fermenter”? Those big Permian dinocephalian herbivores look like they went in for gut fermentation in a big way. I’ve never seen anyone look closely at the possibility, however.

Right? Three times in the post, too.

That’s fair. I do think that Kingdom Hearts is one of those franchises that’s very generational. If you were a tween when the first one hit in 2002 then there’s a good chance it was the coolest thing in the world to you, combining all the stuff a 2002 kid might be into: anime! teen drama! video games! Disney…

Unfortunately, yes. And really damn embarrassing, but thank you and other commenters for pointing it out and letting us correct dumb typos quickly. Ty 

Every billionaire and major business (nearly every small business too) relies on government services to exist as they do. Education, water, roads, sanitation, security, currency, and enforcing regulations to maintain a specific standard of material/business/contract are all essential to our functioning society that…

It’s part of my job.

Sure, but it’s weird to phrase “here’s a big issue that D&D has to wrestle with” without considering “here’s how other people who have published extremely similar games without stepping on the same rakes have addressed it” It’s not as though “game mechanics” are a thing you can copyright, and if Wizards wanted to…

Sure, there are stat penalties assigned with certain ancestries in PF2, but the voluntary flaws rules nonetheless let you start with an 18 (the maximum abillity score at level 1) in any class’s key ability score regardless of your choice of ancestry or an 8 (the minimum) in any ability score except your class’s KAS.…

I know it’s hard to find authorities to quote in a piece like this, other than designers, many of whom are in competition with Wizards of the Coast and thus whose comments should be taken with at least a grain of salt, but why do I care what a cosplayer thinks about this?

You also neglected to mention that D&D…

Pathfinder 2nd Ed is what D&D wishes it could be when it grows up.

Because they want it changed everywhere.

It genuinely feels like the 2nd edition of Pathfinder has already solved a significant number of these problems already.