The big thing you appear to be missing is that “Copyright does not protect ideas, concepts, systems, or methods of doing something.” As far as Tabletop games are concerned the only thing you actually havecopyright protection over is “Expression”. So someone else could not copy/paste from the SRD and publish it in…

Sure, but if WotC were to actually take Paizo to court over Paladin, Paizo’s lawyers would immediately point out:

I mean, I’ve been playing TTRPG since the 80s (started with the red box) and I’m pretty hazy on what D&D Beyond even is. The OGL 1.1 is bad in ways I understand (you can’t just arbitrarily and unilaterally cancel a license when you’ve benefited from it for 20 years except as pursuant to termination conditions in the…

The right wing freakout about gas stoves is the same as the right wing freakout about incandescent lightbulbs is the same as the right wing freakout about low flow toilets. No, the government is not going to come to your home and make you replace your appliances. What’s going to happen is that the next time you have…

I mean, isn’t the actual ban likely to be about “new construction and manufacturing” so just like the right wing freakout about low-flow toilets or non-incandescent lightbulbs, nobody is going to care about what’s already in your house you just might have different options when it comes time to replace whatever it is…

The thing about icon chasing in a great big sandbox is that this is a great thing to have when it’s what you want, but moods are not entirely predictable so it contributes more to “buying the Assassin’s Creed game on sale for when you want that in your life” than “being hyped to pay full price”.

“Release the most extreme version of something to gauge reaction and go from there” is a thing TTRPG companies do when doing public playtests, where it’s understood by everybody that the version of the thing in your hands is not the final version.  It’s probably not as good a strategy when it comes to “business…

Yes, but “Paladin” is the name for the LG flavor for the Champion class (to go with Redeemer, Liberator, Tyrant, Desecrator, and Antipaladin for NG, CG, LE, NE, and CE versions.)

You’re still going to have a hard time saying “that’s our Paladin, you can’t use it” since the whole idea harkens back to Charlemagne’s Paladins in the Song of Roland. The role of the “holy warrior” could be argued to be the interpolation of the cleric and fighting man classes, and you could point out that WotC…

In agreeing to the OGL 1.0a (which was sort of the backbone of the TTRPG industry for like 20 years) you agreed not to use things that the license terms “Product Identity” of which there is an extensive list. For a specific example you cannot use the name “Dungeons & Dragons” or their logo, but under copyright law you…

Fun fact- the OGL is actually more restrictive than what you could legally publish under copyright law.  It just served as safe harbor and guarantee that WotC wouldn’t sue you if you abided by the terms of the license.  You could always make a game with an Elf Paladin with an 18 Dexterity, because you can’t copyright…

So Wizards most likely cannot unilaterally revoke the previous OGL (or at least doing so would result in a court battle where deck is stacked against them). They can, however, release a new version of the OGL pursuant to section 9 of the OGL 1.0a. They can even make a condition of the new OGL that when you agree to it…

Digitial menu boards are an innovation?  I think Arby’s has had them for 10 years and my local tacqueria has had them for 4-5.

I’m sort of confused how this is an origin story when the characters are different. I hope we don’t bumble into a Scooby-Doo multiverse saga, since continuity for these things has always been dubious.

I’m going to miss being able to blacken chile skins by throwing them directly on the flame.

I mean practically speaking a gas stove does have advantages over the other technologies. A gas stove heats up and cools down much more quickly than an electric cooktop, and it works without an adapter for any pot you own unlike induction. That being said, this is probably not worth compromising your health for. I…

As someone who also strongly prefers Trek to Wars, I will also not be appearing in any Star Wars movies.

It’s bizarre to think that Twitter would be able to convert more users to “Pay for no ads” than Hulu or Spotify, since those are actually companies that provide a service and I people enjoy using.

Part of me was hoping we were going to get some Narfs and some Scrunts showing up.

Yeah, it wouldn’t be impossible for BK to make something that you could understand as a torta with ingredients they could get, it’s just that their process of refining it to make it more inexpensive, efficient, and to make it the same from restaurant to restaurant means you’re almost certainly better off hitting up…