Nordic the Dungeon Master

[kittydragondraws]

[nitewrighter]

Me: I don't get it. I thought I was doing a lot better than I was a few years ago. I'm like 10 times more on top of things than I used to be. How does everything feel terrible now?

The Tiny Me in OSHA-approved Hi-Vis Gear Who lives in my brain and pulls all the levers: Boss, it's the fascism. You're completely gunked up with cortisol due to the fact that your entire daily life is now underscored with a haunting awareness of the rapid erosion of your rights, dignity, and any and all social safety nets, and you're also bearing witness to the most vulnerable people immediately being persecuted. This creates a natural stress response that basically means you're going to continue having memory and organizational problems, as well as emotional imbalances.

Me: BUT I HAVE A BULLET JOURNAL AND I MEDITATE NOW.

Tiny OSHA Me: BOSS, THE FASCISM.

[willowgarden15]

Mosasaurus inspired by the myth of Cetus and Greek pottery (⁠◕⁠ᴗ⁠◕⁠✿⁠)

[parasitequeen]

[haronson]

[leidensygdom]

So, what is the OGL and why are DnD creators thoroughly screwed?

Tumblr has not been doing a great job at talking about this, but:

With OneDnD, Wizards of the Coast has decided to update the Open Game License (OGL). Said license is what allowed people to create homebrew DnD content and sell it, and even larger companies to use certain sorts of content. Pathfinder, for example, is built on said OGL. This also allows streamers and artists to exist and benefit from said content.

With OneDnD (sometimes called “dnd 6e”), WOTC wants to create a much more restrictive OGL, which will, amongst other things:

Make WOTC take a cut for any DnD-related work (according to Kickstarter, a whole 25% of the benefits)

Let WOTC cancel any project related to DnD up to their discretion

Let WOTC take ANY content made based on their system, and re-sell it without crediting you, or giving you a single cent

And most importantly, revoke the old OGL, which will harm any company or game system that used it as a base, such as Pathfinder. And it means they GET ownership over any homebrew content you may have done for 5e in the past!

It’s important to note that OGLs are supposedly irrevocable. They were planning to use it for OneDnD initially, but they want to apply it retroactively to 5e, somehow. Which is illegal, but lawyers have mentioned there’s a chance they may get away with it given the wording.

This means that anything you make based on DnD (A homebrew item? A character drawing? Even music, according to them?), can get taken and used as they deem appropiate.

These news come from a leak of the OGL, which have been confirmed by multiple reputable sources (including Kickstarter, which has confirmed that WOTC already talked with them about this), and was planned to be released next week.

So, what can we do?

Speak against it. Share the word. Reblog this post. Let people know. Tumblr hasn’t been talking much about this matter, but it’s VERY important to let people know about what is WOTC bringing. 

Boycott them. Do not buy their products. Do not buy games with their IP. Do not watch their movie. CANCEL your DnD Beyond subscription. (Btw, they ARE planning to release more subscription services too!). They do not care about the community, but they care about the money. Make sure to speak through it. 

And maybe consider other TTRPG systems for the time being, Pathfinder’s Paizo has been much nicer to the community, their workers are unionized and are far more healthy overall

[thecreaturecodex]

It’s that retroactive thing that really fucks people over. The original OGL is the basis for huge amounts of the last 20+ years of tabletop RPGs, including Pathfinder 1e, Mutants and Masterminds, and the entire OSR movement. If Hasbro tries to shut down older offshoots, a lot of independent producers and small companies won’t have the resources to fight them, and bigger companies (like Paizo and Green Ronin) might spend years tied up in the courts.

[therobotmonster]

This is on top of the whole OGL being technically pointless because game rules cannot be copyrighted. Nor can concepts. Only the way those rules are described. But by providing a specific wording of the rules everyone was allowed to use, they’re going to use that as a method to claim ownership.

The irony of D&D, a game whose entire history is built upon shaving off serial numbers so people can enjoy concepts they enjoy in a new setting, is clamping down when its their cash is something I thought we left behind with TSR.

[phoenixdice]

Hey nerds! Take a minute and read this if you agree that creativity is one of the pillars of D&D. If these changes go through, the corporations will be able to crush all those independent creators who push the game into new realms of weird and awesome. This world is all about freedom, is it not?

Sign the Petition

Wizards/Hasbro - Do NOT Change the OGL License

[lawfulgoodness]

Don't just complain about it. Sign the petition.

[valtsv]

would you still love me if i was a wyrm

[lavender-annd-lilac]

If someone asked me this I’d prob be like: ya, I would actually love u more

[valtsv]

^ us

[dnd-homebrew5e]

Every time I try to reference a movie in D&D I call it a puppet show. If I reference a famous singer I call them a bard. My favorite thing is if I reference a place, I just put the word "Fantasy" in front of it.

[gavamont]

Magic fact: wizard council has finally started a potion bottle return program that pays per bottle, but there’s an aftermarket of goblins sorting through them to find slightly more valuable bottles to sell in their local markets

[bace-jeleren]

Absolutely obsessed with this decedent slut

[bace-jeleren]

Goodbye brooding, haunted vampire bf era, now is the Era of the Whore!

[bace-jeleren]

[nostalgic-breton-girl]

spells that should be available at the discount spell shop:

water walking: the nearest bucket grows legs

summon skeleton: it’s inanimate. just some bones

shock: the spellbook is just full of dirty jokes

detect life: detects bacteria

shadow shape: your shadow takes on an interesting new shape

divine intervention: the nearest bush catches fire

mark: summons a guy called mark

[prokopetz]

A lot of folks can’t wait for Van Helsing to show up in Dracula Daily because they want to see people’s reactions to the original inspiration for this or that anime character.

I can’t wait for Van Helsing to show up in Dracula Daily because he’s the original inspiration for American schlock horror’s Monster-Hunting Priest archetype – even though he’s technically not a priest in the source material – and therefore the ultimate progenitor of the Dungeons & Dragons cleric, and once you see him a great many things about why clerics are Like That come sharply into focus.

[naomisart]

My vampire cowboy world 🦇🌵

[thatdisasterauthor]

I don’t think we talk enough about how, despite the presence of multiple globes, PotC takes place on a flat earth, ice wall included.

[patrickdiomedes]

I’m gonna need some elaboration here

[thatdisasterauthor]

They literally sail over the edge of it after passing through a hole in a wall of ice. They fall off. They get back to the other side by passing through the whole ocean.

But also there’s a globe on, like, everyone’s desk.

[andthentheywilleatthestars]

#it’s like lord of the rings#it’s only flat for pirates

[thatdisasterauthor]

You get it.

[finalvortex]

No, but this is actually (sort of) canon.

See, part of the conceit of the PotC trilogy is that all myths are true. Nearly every supernatural element in the franchise has a root in some real world mythology or pirate lore, although some of them are mashed together.

Another thing is that they take place at the end of the Golden Age of Piracy, and the more the map gets filled in, and the more the Royal Navy takes power, there less room there is for the mystical and supernatural in the world. This is explicitly called out in At World’s End with the death of the kraken:

Barbossa: The world used to be a bigger place. Jack: The world’s still the same. There’s just… less in it.

The only way to access the world of the supernatural is through the supernatural itself. You can only get to the Isla de Muerta with Jack’s compass that points to whatever you desire, or if you already know where its is. You need Tia Dalma’s map to find the edge of the world. To access the supernatural, you need to already be immersed in it.

The pirates world isn’t flat, it’s round - but because the edge of the world exists in myth, it therefore exists in reality. The pirates are able to find it through supernatural means, but if, say, someone like Norrington just sailed in the same general direction, he wouldn’t end up in the same place.

[nitewrighter]

“Pirate” is a mage subclass fueled by word of mouth, rule of cool, The Power of Belief/Love/Friendship, and rum.

[explorerrowan]

Mostly rum.

[thecollectibles]

Art by Yuri Hill

[tropiyas]

shawty got them evil bottom jeans

[tropiyas]

boots with the curse