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Who wants to go to the imax showing of dnd in Seattle??

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Check the blankets for goblins before sitting down.

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an unseelie forest encounter table i made

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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

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Does anyone want a TikTok???

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I’m back! Please let me know what you want to see!

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Hello!! So sorry I’ve been so absent! I was actually working full time during this crazy year even though I’m not technically essential. Anyways I’m back so feel free to send me content, I’ll be looking to get back to posting! And! I know someone looking to sell magic the gathering cards so I might be posting their sales if you don’t want to see that feel free to unfollow but it won’t be often. Here’s the new cat I adopted during quarantine unexpectedly and hope everyone is surviving (I would say having a wonderful day but in these times idk)

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This may be my new favorite rainbow set!! It comes to me from Normal Human Designs on Etsy, a shop run by perfectly ordinary human beings who have the correct amount of skin, according to their business card (which my inner weird little kid adores). The mix of glitter is so GOOD <333

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rich ppl are like so easily convinced abt ghosts I remember growing up it was near this vacant lot and whenever I broke a toy instead of going to face the wrath of my mother I would fucking bury it in that lot and then sure enough, some dude tried to develop the land and found a ton of buried rotten dolls and shit and told everyone it was haunted

it’s been over a decade and that lot is still vacant 

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Things that will seem totally normal to Americans and, I assume, bewilder everyone else: back in 2018 the Phillie Phanatic gave a grandma a black eye with his hot dog cannon

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“Laser Light Possum, go!”

- Possum familiar + The Dragon’s Breath spell + a fun unofficial subclass = a possum that shoots radiant lasers from its mouth. This is going to be a fun campaign.

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Dungeon: The Wall in the Wyldrwood

Over hill and stream the kings’ wall goes/ 

Its heavy bricks stacked, rows upon rows/

Taller than the trees, from sky to floor/

Only ghosts know where to find the door/

Setup: Its a well known fact that the deeper you go into any fantasy world forest, the more likely you are to stumble into the feywild, or encounter cursed temples to forgotten gods of roots and revelry, or some semi-mythic beast sent by the gods to punish you for some unacknowledged hubris. Better to do away with all that kingdom-destabilizing whimsy thought King Rabadyr, wall it off for all time and get back to the business of running a sensible kingdom free of from the interference of primal forces. 

In hindsight the task was easier said than done, much like trying to use sand to hold back a river intent on spilling over its banks. Rabadyr poured lives and treasure into his great work, scouting out miles and miles of uneven wilderness and emptying his kingdom’s quarries to supply the stone. Two generations and three monarchs later, the wall was complete, mortared with spellcraft and wards to preserve the structure and prevent anyone from crossing over the boundary. 

Now the Wyldrwood is reaching out again, the forest having regrown to encompass all of Rabadyr’s work, making his barrier a part of its own mystery. 

Adventure Hooks: 

Numerous entities control access in and out of the Wylderwood, taking control of secret smuggler’s tunnels, natural caverns, and places where the enchantments have failed and caused the walls to crumble. In particular, a gang of bandits, malicious fey, and other forest lowlifes have taken up residence in one of the many fortifications that dot the edge of Rabadyr’s wall. Led by a sadistic bugbear named Snagglehook, these outlaws kidnap innocents to sell to fey lords in exchange for enchanted fairy goods and other treasures of the feywild they pass on to discerning mortal patrons. 

A fearsome creature with red eyes and leathery hide stalks the wall, taking advantage of its enchanted architecture to ambush travlers who use it to navigate, Fretful of the sun, it emerges only in the dark through veiled doorways to hunt the forest before returning to its lair. When a merchant’s daughter is kidnapped by the beast while traveling through the wylderwood, the fearful and desperate mother promises to reward the party handsomely if only they can return their darling girl to her. Their best chance of finding the girl? Let one of their own number be snatched, and follow the creature back to its lair. 

Though Rabadyr intended for his wall to be impregnable, he still built a gatehouse for it: a fortress in its own right with multiple defenses on either side of the barrier, and living accommodations for a whole crew of guards and workers to live there year round. Since the wall has been abandoned, the gatehouse has become the home of wild denizens, ruled over intermittently by fey and forestlord alike. Currently unoccupied, it provide a prime target for a group of adventurers who’d like to explore a bit of the wall’s wonder without diving into the dangerous inner forest completely. 

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“My Lute is full of bees”

-tiefling bard, after taming a swarm of bees

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Came up with an idea with a friend that is not original in any way, but I would like to play as half siblings. She wants be a Half Orc Vengeance Paladin and I want be a Half Elf War Cleric. Clearly, with that ideology, we would share the same human parent.

We will just have to wait and see if we ever do this. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Welp, I’m out of ideas.  Let’s run.

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Functional Demon Helmet

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I'M SO EXCITED TO OWN THESE! Adventures in the East Mark dice by Q-Workshop. Coffin by me ;)