This is the best explanation. Basically, all of the internet is wrong, most people's take is wrong, and it probably doesn't matter anyway because the upper executives are trying to somewhat walk this back.
Yeah. But Youtube's top lawyer has made some good points about why the O.G.L. is probably less relevant than people think snd some people have probably been paying Hasbro licensing fees unnecessarily too. Essentially, you can't copyright game mechanics to begin with. You can copyright the specific wording of your rules and narrative elements of stock campaigns but Critical Role should generally be free and clear to run hit checks with D20 and fight generic dragons or ones they create in a D&D compatible campaign so long as Drizzt doesn't show up or they don't reprint the player's manual verbatim. It kind of makes sense when you think about Words With Friends vs. Scrabble or all the Monopoly knockoffs or how even relatively new card games played with a 52 card deck aren't owned by anybody. So the O.G.L. is probably overly cumbersome but well-intentioned (I get the impression it's to avoid scummy behavior like openly racist official D&D streams or some of the jerk moves by the Gygax people). But probably wholly unnecessary unless running stock campaigns. You probably don't need an O.G.L. at all if you take a few precautions.
There’s some extra meat on that “wtf?!” bone. The purpose of the whole “One D&D” thing that the new OGL is part of is substantially increased monetization of everything D&D. There’s been serious talk about digital platforms and microtransactions. The end goal is to move D&D from a physical tabletop experience to a digital one like Roll20 or Tabletop Simulator, but proprietary to Hasbro/WotC. That’s what makes the whole OGL and 3rd party thing such a problem on the horizon: it’s less about how D&D works NOW and more about how it WILL work.
Huh? That is neither Nick Rekieta, Viva Frei, Robert Barnes, nor Alina Mazeika. Better known as Rekeita Law, Viva and Barnes, and LegalBytes respectively.
Isn't Nick Rekieta banned from Youtube? In any case, I think if you polled lawyers, Devin Stone aka LegalEagle would come in ahead of Rekieta. Most lawyers I know think Rekieta's clients should be suing him and that he's costing his clients the best outcomes through incompetence. I also think Rekieta has a day job as a regional telecom executive and many millions of dollars from that and mostly just practices law for publicity/attention. I should clarify though: I think you're talking about streamers moreso whereas I am talking longform content creators. By subscription numbers, if you added together the sub totals for Legal Bytes, Rekieta, and Viva and Barnes, they'd still have fewer than half the subs Stone has and probably 1/10th the amount of lifetime damages awarded to their clients that he has won in court. (In fairness, I don't think LegalBytes is even a trial lawyer.)
Got the Gelatinous Cube from Pulse today. Put a Mythic Legions Steel Knight with Skeleton head and hands that have been "disolved" inside it Comparison with the Gamestop Exclusive Gelatinous Cube statue
Got my transforming black dice dragon figure in. Very nice. Tad smaller than i pictured, but overall still cool. I might pick up the red dragon. I got a Target coupon that expires soon so i might drop by tomorrow and see if they have any. Might get the owl or eye if they have both.
Saw the kid style black dragon at Walmart. Think its called Rakor. It was $34.97. Tempting but I'd rather hold out for a more posable and scaled dragon.
I’ve seen most…if not all…of the current wave of D&D figures at the last few Target stores I visited. If they haven’t shown up at your local store(s) yet, just give it a little time. Edit: they all appear to be in stock on Pulse as well.
I only have Venger & Dungeon Master so far, I’m pretty sure I’ll get the others but haven’t pulled the trigger yet. All toys I collect (especially Hasbro’s) feel overpriced so I’m nonplussed over the cost of this line. I like them, don’t love them. No QC issues to speak of, knock on wood.
I picked up wave 1 and the Venger/DM set. These are not great action figures, they feel flimsy, they are an odd size and they cost way too much. However they look fantastic and I've been wanting figures based on the show since the 80s. I also don't expect we'll see an alternative anytime soon and when it's all said and done we'll have the 6 heroes, Uni, Venger and DM for about $200. For my purposes and sensibilities, that's a complete shelf at a not awful price. Far from perfect, for sure, but they will make for a great looking display. Venger is both my most and least liked figure. I can't stop looking at him, he looks exactly how I'd want him to look! He's big and intimidating and looks like he stepped off the screen! Unfortunately his legs are 100% useless as are his shoulders and neck. He could have been a mostly static, 1pc figure with just elbows and wrists and none of the articulation it currently has would be lost and it could have been sold for much less. The line has some issues but water in the desert and all that.
