Pete Griffith

@orbitbooks Are audiobooks of Empire of Exiles and Relics of Ruin available in the UK? Or will they be?

@CrossCountryUK Thanks. What’s the price to upgrade Birmingham to Derby and Derby to Sheffield?

@pedr Yes, that's correct. ^RF

@CrossCountryUK Are Weekend First upgrades available on your trains tomorrow?

@rdonoghue How about: if you release an adventure or campaign sourcebook under OGL and designate a new trap or subclass OGC and everything else PI it takes a deliberate act for another party to reproduce your lore, etc. How that division is spelled out under CC is less clear/well-understood

Regular reminder that all that CC-BY (which is what the 5.1 SRD now offers) your sole obligation is to give credit for using it. It requires LESS of you than the OGL does, and beyond giving credit, it has NO IMPACT on what you do with the stuff you make.

Ok, asking the lawyers: To my eyes, the claims that the OGL offers better protection than CC for content not under the license because the idea of protected content is "in the license" seems utterly nonsensical. Is there any even FAINTLY legal basis for this claim?

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@wayne_peters I’ve never got into Lovecraft things - stories or games - but these podcasts were great.

@thedicemechanic I agree about deauthorisation. I think WotC can only really “fix” this if they renounce the idea that they can prevent existing 5e OGC from being used in line with 1.0a in future products.

@thedicemechanic I think it’s noteworthy that he had to introduce himself. Seems as if WotC decided ‘brand’ didn’t need to engage with customers anymore. I miss Nathan Stewart’s fireside chats!

@richgreen01 @symatt Oh, I thought that was a response to this … 🤣

Using a Gif only, tell me what it's like at your ttrpg table.

@symatt @FreeLeaguePub Was just listening to @gspearing frothing about Dragonbane: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/gam…

Are there some quick start rules to this? @FreeLeaguePub

@symatt I’d forgotten about @garius discussing the “trust thermocline” re: Twitter a few months ago. Applies here too I think:

@symatt It’s very hard to see how they could be acting in good faith, and breaking trust with players and the community of creators who’ve been part of D&D for 20+ years is going to be a big problem for them.

I don't get political on my tweet because I don't understand enough but WotC has me angry upset.

@wayne_peters And for a while at least, a reasonable proportion of small creators may believe it’s worth writing for Pathfinder or something else. I think the DM’s Guild will lure them back - but it’s tied up with reactions to OneDnD too.

@wayne_peters I can’t work out how significant the D&D social media sphere is but I think there’s a network of quite influential voices which could affect things. CR might be locked in, perhaps to the end of C3, but I expect more diversity in other key streaming groups for e.g.

@wayne_peters @carlclare @K_0 Yes, once the decisions have all been made - or by early May if any unis haven’t responded - she can then accept one conditional offer as a firm choice and one as an insurance choice. Main deadline for applications is 25/1 so some unis won’t have made offers yet, presumably.

It appears the dragon finally emerged from its cave and spoken. It swears it had no intention of eating your livestock and burinating your homes, but to only protect them from the cold. You both won. You can trust it. Put away the D20. There's no need to roll to find Deception.

@Asako_Soh (Butty Bach > HPA, and not just because of the name! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿) :-)

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@pedroecija @thedicemechanic @carlclare @Asako_Soh This isn’t a case where there’s conflict between unambiguous contract language and external statements; the question is what the OGL actually meant and means. (In reality, though, deep pockets probably mean more than legal doctrine, sadly)

@pedroecija @thedicemechanic @carlclare @Asako_Soh I’m not a litigator, let alone an American one. But why would a court prefer now-WotC’s interpretation to that of the other parties to the OGL, who each accepted it in the knowledge of then-WotC’s express representations as to what it meant?

It seems there are some D&D shenanigans?

@thedicemechanic @carlclare @Asako_Soh (I think the best interpretation of “authorised” is “issued under the authority of WotC, rather than a draft or proposed version”, but much of the legal discussion is academic as WotC’s actions are going to have more effect than the theoretical legal position)

@thedicemechanic @carlclare @Asako_Soh It’s far from definitive, but Ryan Dancey seems to think they can’t, and the FAQ suggested it wasn’t meant to be possible. Which doesn’t mean that’ll be the eventual answer. Apparently open software licences used the same language then, though newer versions say “irrevocable”