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1:02 AM

I'm already seeing larger content creators boycotting D&D Beyond and urging others to do the same.

Most recently, MrRhexx

fyrepenguin

Interesting to note from the blog post:

“We believe that any interpretation that the OGL 1.0 or 1.0(a) were intended to be revocable or able to be deauthorized is incorrect, and with good reason.
We were there.
Paizo owner Lisa Stevens and Paizo president Jim Butler were leaders on the Dungeons & Dragons team at Wizards at the time. Brian Lewis, co-founder of Azora Law, the intellectual property law firm that Paizo uses, was the attorney at Wizards who came up with the legal framework for the OGL itself. Paizo has also worked very closely on OGL-related issues with Ryan Dancey, the visionary who conceived the OGL in the first pla…

1:20 AM

Bad idea: casting raise dead on unidentified bones

@Joshua I think it's fine, because Raise Dead doesn't replace missing organs, so it'll stay bones.

Worst that can happen, maybe, is that they're a bone mimic.

Correction: I confused Animate Dead with Raise Dead

if they weren't hominid you get something you might not be able to control

Okay, good, because Raise Dead wouldn't work on a skeletal corpse even if you had their organs in jars because decomposition to the skeletal stage only really happens as fast as 2 weeks, which is just outside the 10 day window.

Even then, though, Animate Dead in 5e only makes Zombies or Skeletons, so you'd end up with a normal skeleton either way, iirc.

Axoren: not if the lion was there first

I don't think the lion would be able to cast Raise Dead or open jars of organs.

1:25 AM

Do you want a T-Rex skeleton?

Is that a question? Or an offer?

Because I'll take it!

You have a T-Rex skeleton. Roll initiative

1d20-1

I've been betrayed

Dicebot not working anymore?

lol

probably wrong channel; for the best I'm not set up to run the fight anyway

I actually had my party fight a T-Rex Skeleton.

It VERY QUICKLY killed two party members.

1:28 AM

not suprised

It was an ambush and they all failed to spot it, even after actively searching to find it.

The Wizard decided to stop right in front of the foliage it was hiding behind and was in perfect chomp distance.

oof

Luckily, one-shot. None of your backstories matter because you have no future.

"It's a one-shot, bring someone expendable."

what would you think if you found a wizard version of a druid spell in a two thousand year old spellbook?

Q: How will this static initiative houserule affect game balance?

1:50 AM

I'd think the DM really wanted to give the Wizard something cool to play with.

Adeptus

2:00 AM

Also:
- Kobold Press are creating their own open-licensed system (possibly an almost-5e? not sure). They'll finish the 5e projects they've already committed to, but after that it's in doubt.
- Troll Lord Games aren't going to make anything new for 5e, and will focus on their own system, Castles & Crusades.
- Frog God Games have stated that they won't sign on to OGL1.1, and if OGL1.0a can legally be revoked they'll probably have to go out of business.

@Axoren dicebot doesn't do +/-, just straight dice rolls

KorvinStarmast

@doppelgreener I might contribute a few bucks to a crowd funded effort to give them legal support, even though I give less than two hoots for Paizo and their products.

@Axoren it works but only on raw rolls

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2:27 AM

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So in my current D&D group all the PCs have a static initiative (8 + Proficiency + Dex + any other bonuses) while enemies and NPCs keep rolling the original way (d20 dice roll + Dex). This enables us to plan a permanent group order in combat but I would like to know if this is actually balanced, ...

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Q: What happens to a conjured creature when the caster of the spell that conjures it loses access to that spell?

This is already something of an edge case, and the intuitive answer would seem to be that the creature vanishes, right? But I'm interested in whether that is the case when certain items are involved. The relevant text for Ruby Weave Gem and Ring of Spell Storing are as follows: Ring of Spell Sto...

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11:17 AM

@ThomasMarkov you don't understand the lasting utility in "what is the stated design goals?"

@Trish Sure. But if your question is “what are the stated design goals as of today?”, and they change tomorrow then (1) I can’t post an answer tomorrow with the new stated design goals, and (2) yesterday’s stated design goals are meaningless. The question doesn’t have any lasting utility.

@ThomasMarkov The main reason is archivial - what is/was the stated goal of the license, even if it never comes to fruition or ends up looking vastly different than stated. It's something that can be used to pin down future research. That's why I had a strict date in it!

@Trish so can I post the same question tomorrow but change the “as of” date?

@ThomasMarkov possibly... maybe with "What coals were removed/changed"? It'S hard... how would you edit the question to become a catch-all wiki-style about ORC? Just remove the time cutoff?

make it all about pre-release?

@Trish Sort of, yeah. Something like “how did the stated design goals for the ORC license evolve/develop/change prior to its release?” This way all changes coming down from official discussions and releases have a home on one question, and the entire development history of the license can be documented in one question.

And it doesn’t look like you’re just asking for this week’s game license news.

11:27 AM

How about now?

Removal of the “as of [date]” but is definitely an improvement, but I still think reframing it to focus on the continuous development would be even better. Framing it as “how has it evolved over the course of the pre-release period” encourages complete answers that focus on the whole development life cycle, and discourages one-shot “here’s an update” answers.

Remember, we want to optimize for pearls, so anything we can do to frame a question in a way that encourages high quality, complete answers and discourages brief “adding to the conversation” type answers is something we should aim for.

@ThomasMarkov I tried to make it better... you think you can pick up the red pen?

(FTR: that's question #99/100 for Socratic, if it works out)