#6e

[daarka]

Actually fucking nuts. Capitalism ruins everything.

Push back against this. Be loud. Use #OpenDnD liberally.

Staying in 5e and ignoring 6e/"OneDnD" is not an option. I'll try to summarize below the cut, but I'm not an expert, so please seek out resources that aren't me for full info. This link is a good start. This is the full deep-dive I read up on a few days ago. Listening to the community is also worthwhile to understand from the voices of those affected most. To be more involved in the discussion yourself, a lawyer has set up a Discord server for the community to gather and converse in regarding this issue.

Again, for full context and information from more knowledgeable sources than me (including actual professionals), please go to the links I included above. If you don't have the time/patience/spoons to read those articles, scroll a twitter feed, or poke around a Discord server though, here are the things that made the most potent impression on me and why you should care about this issue.

As mentioned, staying in 5e and ignoring 6e/"OneDnD" is not an option. While OGL1.1 was made for 6e, the extensive parts of the document that have been leaked make it clear that with OGL1.1 going into effect, OGL1.0a (which has been the OGL for the past decade) will no longer be functional. 3rd party creators must choose to either sign the OGL1.1 and comply with it's insanely restrictive and predatory terms, or face legal repercussions for publishing the content they have made their livelihoods off of the past decade.

Per the leaked document, all 3rd party creators must register themselves and their creations with WotC. - 3rd party creators making over $50,000 USD per year must also report their earnings to WotC. - 3rd party creators making over $750,000 USD gross per year must also pay WotC a 25% royalty. This means it is not 750k in profits, it is 750k before any expenses that they are taking the royalties from. Anyone whose profit margin was 25% or less would be financially invalidated by this royalty, and can even end up losing money. Furthermore, the nature of Kickstarters for example is that there is no upper ceiling on earnings, so a KS for a 3rd party sourcebook will suddenly be facing a massive expense they may not have planned for if their campaign exceeds the 750k mark, potentially destroying their ability to deliver on the rewards when they otherwise could have. While currently only a small number of creators are known to make over 750k/year (gross, not net), that does not mean this will not affect you. It creates a very dire argument for why 3rd party creators should not even make the effort in the first place, especially with crowdfunding where too much success can suddenly ruin them.

Remember how those who make over 50k have to report their earnings? Well, the 750k threshold is one WotC says they have the right to change at any time in OGL1.1. This means they can see what people are making when creators are forced to report their earnings over 50k, and use that data to lower the threshold of income for their royalty fee, and they can do this at any time, however much they want. Per OGL1.1, they are telling you that they can decide on a whim that actually, anyone making over $5,000 USD gross a year has to pay the 25% royalty.

D&DBeyond / OneDnD are working towards creating a VTT to host OneDnD/6e. While Roll20 is licensed by WotC if I'm not mistaken, virtually no other VTT is. Platforms like Foundry VTT (my personal favorite and most beloved VTT) will not be able to host the D&D system on them under OGL1.1. What does that mean? Hard to say. But it will objectively become much harder to play D&D outside of WotC-approved spaces in the near future, and that is by design. They want to monopolize how this game is played, and that means making it difficult, inconvenient, or even illegal to play the game outside of their personal playground.

Under OGL1.1, WotC claims full and complete ownership over any and all 3rd party content created for D&D, and the rights to use it however, whenever, and wherever they want without paying you royalties. You made this? Hasbro made this.

I've only ever played 5e. But this link I put up above was very informative about prior editions and the drama surrounding them. 3e had an OGL, and the community began to flourish with 3rd party content. WotC didn't like that people who weren't them were making money off a passion for D&D, and they regretted the OGL--but that OGL was irrevocable, and could not be cancelled, removed, or in any way undone. So they put together 3.5e. They promised 3.5e would be backwards compatible, and all your resources for 3e would still work for it. So people jumped to 3.5e, only to find all their 3e content was now worthless, because that hadn't been true. And 3.5e, of course, did away with that open and welcoming OGL from 3e. Sound familiar? "OneDnD" is touted to be backwards compatible. And yet also comes with crushing restrictions in their OGL1.1 that make it impossible for the D&D community to exist as it has been. It is transparently clear that for WotC/Hasbro, an ideal world would be one where all the money people have spent on flourishing this community over the last decade would have gone exclusively into their pockets. D&D makes hundreds of millions every year, but it's "under monetized" according to their new CEO. It doesn't matter if "Honor Among Thieves" flops at the box office, WotC has already green-lit the production of multiple D&D movies. It's not about fanservice, it's about fan exploitation. Because they can't fucking stand that the game they made can be played obsessively and passionately for decades with only the one-time purchases of the DMG and PHB. And instead of fixing the apparent "under-monetization" problem by publishing more official content, they choose to poach 3rd party creators. The very lifeblood that has caused D&D's success. Because capitalist greed is a soulless poison to whatever it fixes its attention on.

The only way the community has any shot in hell to fight this is if the pushback is intense and loud. WotC has released statements mentioning an openness to listening to the community and revising their choices based on feedback; whether that proves to be lip service or not remains to be seen, but either way: the only thing they seem to care about is money. Fine, let your money do the talking, then. Wholeheartedly support the boycott. Proclaim your support of it loudly. Let Hasbro know that their attempts to milk more profits out of this franchise will be the very thing that kills it if they don't ease the fuck back and allow OGL1.0a to persist. They apparently didn't learn shit when this happened in 3e/3.5e. They can either wise up now before they fuck up beyond repair, or they can be fully destroyed by their own greed. Time will tell.

Edit:

Good catch, thanks! You're right, I must have had some wires crossed when writing that bit. They couldn't revoke it, but they did publish new content for 3.5e that made 3.0e content feel worthless; this is not something I personally lived through, but is based on the reporting from this second article I linked. Likewise, that article explains how 4e did not have an OGL and was consequentially a bit of a wasteland, presumably prompting WotC to bring the OGL back for 5e. Which flourished. And now we're here.

Edit II:

I'm Super not the best source of information for this because I'm absolutely all over the place, but 2 things.

Please check out OpenDnD.games for full, proper info and a place to give your signature in support of the community's pushback.

Something else I failed to mention above: OGL1.1 has a "poison pill" clause. Anyone who signs it permanently forfeits their right to publish under prior versions of the OGL, even if they are unable to take down those prior versions. DO NOT SIGN ANYTHING FOR OGL1.1. Even if the community pushback yields results, you may have trapped yourself. "Predatory" does not even begin to cover it.

#opendnd #ogl #dnd #dungeons and dragons #dnd5e #6e #onednd #ttrpg #rpg #wotc #hasbro #daarka gekkers

[fightingchancestudio]

What class is cracked and what class needs buffed in the next edition of D&D?

#6e #5e #dnd #ttrpg #dice #dnd53 #dnd6e

[toutplacid]

Balzac par Rodin, boulevard Raspail, Paris 6e – mine de graphite, carnet n° 125, 13 mai 2019

#2019 #balzac #sculpture #bronze #rodin #monument #boulevard raspail #paris #6e #robe de chambre #pigeon #platanes #elections #mine de plomb #carnet 125 #arbres #statue

[i-am-venomancer]

Getting something off my chest

Don't trust Wotc cause you enjoy the produce.

Wotc is motivated by money, and now they look to be eyeing the 3rd party market as a money pig.

They have already shown that they want major brand control. They already talked about brand monetization

Your fav writers and creators in Wotc? They have no say

This is the faceless heartless money worshipping side that lose their jobs if they don't make money ticker go Up

They will fuck you over in an instant if they imagine it will make money go up

They are a company motivated by number up, and no number of good honest folks in the company will change that (no realistic one at least).

Rumors and leaks tell some sort of truth: and that truth is that they are testing the water to see how much money they can poach from the third party. Motivation money up.

It's going to hurt the hobby as a whole if this comes true.

But there is something we can do

We can be outraged at the very mention of such a thing

We can fight bite and make them enforce their unenforceable rules

We can drain their coffers and go bandit

Make the money grubbers hurt and lose their jobs for threatening us

Companies aren't your friendly Uncle's. They are dragons, and what do we do as adventurers when faced with evil dragons?

We slay them

#dnd #ogl #onednd #6e #5e #Wotc

[gamesception]

Unlike the 'they don't read the playtest feedback' bit, the rumors/leaks here all track and I expect to be basically accurate. Thoughts below cut.

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Setting aside for a moment the issue of the OGL and the 3rd Party Publishing community and even the brewing legal battle between Hasbro/WotC and existing VTTs, and just looking at what all of this likely means for the upcoming new edition of D&D as a ttrpg and nothing else, things still kind of look bad.

Weekly digital releases as the primary vector for new game content, with phsyical books as collectors items, ensures that content glut will crush 6e as surely as it did 4e, while those who want to stick to physical rulebooks will have to pay out the nose for them - and if you miss the initial release you may not be able to pick up a supplement at all.

Negative impact on the game even for physical world player groups won't be limited to weekly content glut either, as the VTT focus will ensure that no 1st party rules or mechanics will be published for 6e that can't be fully implemented in the video game space, while WotC's moves to alienate the 3pp community will mean you won't have much in alternative content options for 6e to make up the difference. So you can say goodbye to esoteric, interesting rules and imaginative abilities that let you do things in D&D that just wouldn't be possible in a video game.

If you forget the tabletop roots and judge 6e as a live service online multiplayer game, then things look even worse. The WotC VTT will be unavoidably lacking compared to already established alternatives like Destiny or Genshin or Fortnight or League or WoW or Final Fantasy 14 or Guild Wars 2 - full featured video games - many of them free to play - capable of such modern marvels as real time combat, play sessions demanding less than four hours of your time, and underlying game math more complicated than a middle schooler can do in their head.

Basically, because they're making 'D&D the tabletop game the video game' instead of just a separate D&D video game, it still has to be at least theoretically playable /as/ a pen & paper tabletop game with no computers involved. As such, 6e will have all the constraints of both a video game and a tabletop game, leaving it unable to employ the unique potential of either medium. Even if they weren't also saddling it with weekly content glut, even if they hadn't made the entire player community angry going in, even if they weren't trying to carve out space in an already overcrowded 'live service' market - one where dozens of more promising and better funded offerings from more established publishers get mercilessly culled every year, even if 3rd party publishers and VTTs simply gave up the fight and quietly disappeared into that good night... even if 6e were facing none of the many other fatal roadblocks in its path, this alone would doom the entire 6e project to mediocrity and ultimately failure.

Maybe Hasbro could have turned the D&D brand into a major cash cow, but not by directly monetizing the tabletop game itself as though it were a mobile game. Rather, they needed to treat the ttrpg the way Disney treats Marvel comics or the way Nintendo and the Pokemon Corporation treat the actual main line pokemon video games - as IP farms to generate and test content that then gets spun out into a wider media and merchandising empire. Sadly they've already done enough damage to the brand that I'm not sure they could pull this off now if they wanted to.

6e, despite what I felt was a promising start in the first couple play test documents, pretty much cannot succeed at this point - not the way WotC's execs want it to, but not even as a just a stand alone game in spite of those execs, no matter how skilled and well intentioned the ground level developers are. The way I see it, we're headed towards an even more spectacular failure than 4e. Hopefully it will be quickly followed by a 7e walk back as dramatic as what we saw in 5e, and we can all start joking about odd numbered D&D editions being good and even numbered editions being trash fires.

#Youtube #D&D #DnD Shorts #WotC #Hasbro #6e #sad #because after the first couple playtests I really was excited about the direction of 6e

[udaipurdosti]

Indigo 6e Udaipur Reel #reel #shorts

#udaipurdosti #udaipur #indigo6e #indigo #6e

[jessiangravelblr]

Beyoncé - Naughty Girl

#youtube #6e

[dragongirltongue]

On the subject of liking one's own art, I've been working on something lately and thought I'd finally share it!

So I've been talking about how I'm a demidragon lately, well here's how I look uwu

I've got a few more variations in the work but like, fuck it we ball, check me out!

I hope to have more art coming up soon. Also I've claimed the url @dragongirldrawings to use as an art blog, though I'll likely be posting all finished work here directly. It's nice to have a space to have my art exclusively.

#dragon #demidragon #dragongirl #dragongirldrawings #furry #6aaah #dragongirldrawings is also gonna 6e my art tag #please share this around! #not saying if you like it you gotta re6log it 6ut this is my first step into trying to draw regularly and I'd like to 6e seen as an artist #even if that's not the primary function of this 6log #I'm just so excited #I'm gonna queue this a 6unch so everyone sees it

[y-rhywbeth2]

So, I was looking through a new sourcebook for details on life in Faerûn for a post, and guess which godly jackass has MORE LORE. There's also more on Bhaal, but I'm focusing on cussing out Bane right now.

"Weakness and frivolity should be publicly destroyed for all to see and heed. Good is but a shelter for weakness and the whims of those who profess noble goals. Evil is the true state of nature, for winning is everything, and oppression is natural. Fight against good, and exalt evil. Tyrannize and destroy the weak, so that all in time become better and stronger, everyone knowing their place and not daring to question or foment disorder."

Goddamnit Bane, will you please take a fucking nap and calm the fuck down. "Frivolity should be publicly destroyed!" Even Bhaal lets his followers have hobbies!

Other fun Banite things:

"Kill a good person once a day." Bane will accept you thwarting their altruism if you must, but he'd really rather a murder.

Laws should be black and white and followed exactly as written no matter how stupid they are. Anybody who's arbitrary with them should be put to the death and replaced.

Turns out that after the death of the last High Imperceptor the hierarchy of the church went back to trying to kill each other for power. Good luck getting that back under control, asshole.

You don't have to wear something black! You just have to wear the holy symbol: the Hand of Bane! ...which is black. Things we can't have under Banite rule: hobbies, fun in general, critical thinking skills, a wardrobe containing colour...

Oh, I found more stuff on this asshole. Of course I fucking did. Fuck you Bane and your stupid levels of lore.

#I HOPE CYRIC KILLS YOU IN 6E!

[harpoonsnotspoons]

SOME OTHERS HE OWNS ARE CALLED: FRIENDLY REMINDER, FRIENDLY WARNING, PROBLEMATIC FAVORITE, OVERSTIMULATOR, AND PERMABAN

#kankri vantas #homestuck kankri #hs kankri #digital art #obligatory art tag #art #my art #shitpost #KINDA #homestuck #homestuck fanart #♋🦀 #N9te: While I n9rmally d9n't like fav9ritism due t9 it 6eing harmful...Trigger Warning is in fact my fav9rite ♋🩸 #dancestors

[joriboltonpainting]

Here’s the process for the decker test illustration for Shadowrun! Just went through my photoshop saves at different stages and turned them into a gif.

insta I artstation | twitter

#shadowrun #sixth world #6e #Catalyst Game Labs #gaming #illustration #science fiction #scifi #cyberpunk #hacking #decker #shadowrunner #servers #art #digital art #photoshop #cyberdeck #ocular implant #process #wip #artists on tumblr

[undead-aro-guy]

Bitches will see anything and immediately think of the Captain

#it's me im bitches #bbc ghosts #bbc ghosts the captain #six idiots #to anyone confused: it's a joke #the original comic is "les sarcophages du 6e continent #blake et mortimer

[toutplacid]

Couple place Saint-Sulpice (Paris 6) — feutre, carnet n° 109, 14 avril 2016 (format du dessin : 52 x 60 mm)

#2016 #couple #passants #marche #place saint sulpice #paris #6e #cigarette #discussion #profil #feutre #carnet 109 #grille #tribunal du fisc

[carbone14]

Mitrailleuse MG 34 du 141st Gebirgsjäger Regiment de la 6e Division de montagne – Guerre de continuation – Péninsule de Kola – Union soviétique – Avril 1942

#WWII #front est #eastern front #guerre de continuation #continuation war #armée allemande #german army #wehrmacht #heer #6e division de montagne #6th mountain division #141st Gebirgsjäger Regiment #armes d'infanterie #infantry weapon #mitrailleuse #maschinengewehr 34 #mg 34 #péninsule de kola #kola peninsula #union soviétique #soviet union #urss #ussr #04/1942 #1942

[knightofburgers]

Nerds Will Defeat WotC

#wotc #ogl #dnd #d&d #wizards of the coast #hasbro #open gaming license #opendnd #open dnd #dungeons & dragons #dnd 6e #open d&d #fuck wotc

[finncakes]

birthday gifts for a very dear friend <3

#dungeons and dragons #drow #artificer #eladrin #cleric #dnd #dnd 6e #dnd art #dnd character #izzryn #vele #:3c cause i'll probably draw them more (looking to the massive amounts of izzryn art i have done) #anyway happy birthday yet again rae !!!!!! #these are also old at this point #her birthday was like ten days ago #dungeons and dwegons