WotC (and Wizkids) are full of people for whom the word "truth" means something totally different from what that word means to normal people.
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The problem is that while D&D might go CC, all the other 3rd party stuff released over the years still uses the OGL. And AFAIK, that includes the Tome of Horrors, where a lot of non-SRD monsters were released.

And the CC license is not so secure. It's got a problem that makes it (or did) prone to copyright trolls

https://creativecommons.org/2022/02/08/copyleft-trolls/

https://doctorow.medium.com/a-bug-in-early-creative-commons-licenses-has-enabled-a-new-breed-of-superpredator-5f6360713299

Greetings!

So, WTF is wrong about the term RACE? Race has been used since forever, by D&D and everyone else, also forever. Who gives a shit about "species" and the cries of zoologists? Everyone KNOWS what is meant and informed by selecting their race in the game. Even otherwise noob players have an intuitive grasp of what selecting their character's race means.

So, who pushed to make this change in gaming? WHY? What was so needed to stop using a term everyone intuitively understands, and instead use more cloudy, murky terms that people are now mostly clueless about? Huge loss of efficiency and effective communication there, all for WHAT?

Semper Fidelis,

SHARK

Was Perun not mentioned in BoF because he's East Slavic? If so I figured that would be true of Chors as well. They are mentioned together in the same sources after all.

Quote from: Chris24601 on May 09, 2024, 04:47:56 PMThis is what mental illness looks like; the inability to discern reality from one's hallucinations.

Past generations wisely locked these people in attics and institutions, but these days they're left free to roam the streets, run the asylums, and invent regulations to punish all who don't indulge their madness.

Greetings!

Yep! This is how nuts our country has become!

I think something else should be done with these insane freaks.

And just think, WIZKIDS and WOTC are actually employing mentally ill people. People that are diseased.

Semper Fidelis,

SHARK

The only thing I like about Ancestry is it would let me talk about "the ABC's of character creation (Ancestry, Background, Class)."

I still went with Race (and an explanation that race has been the traditional gaming term for playable creature types since the begin which I continue to use for clarity because the playable options I do have make even something as broad as species inadequate).

Quote from: tenbones on May 09, 2024, 03:48:41 PMWhat I want is more robust vehicle combat.

I have never seen a system for vehicle combat in an RPG I liked.  In the end, I end up using some type of minis game or hex-and-chit.  I used Car Wars a lot over the years.

This is what mental illness looks like; the inability to discern reality from one's hallucinations.

Past generations wisely locked these people in attics and institutions, but these days they're left free to roam the streets, run the asylums, and invent regulations to punish all who don't indulge their madness.

Quote from: Zalman on May 09, 2024, 09:27:13 AMAs Elmore says, when he paints a woman, there's never a question about her gender.

There isn't one in this case, either.

This is just deliberate contrariness on WOTC's part in order to draw attention.