Dragoncrown Games

Back in the 90's, Lorraine Williams, a business person who hated and disdained gamers s killed TSR.

Today, Cynthia Williams, another person who hates and disdains gamers is trying to kill the TTRPG industry until only D&D remains.

Fight for our hobby.
#OpenDnD #BoycottHasbro

Jan 9, 2023 at 4:04pmWeb
Show threadAriaflameJan 9, 2023
@dragoncrown But the OGL only applies to people making D&D adjacent games, not GURPS or Runequest or Feng Shui or Star Trek Adventures or ... So I don't quite understand how them making it so that there's less D&D like stuff would kill the TTRPG industry? But it's late and I'm tired. So maybe I missed something.
Show threadDragoncrown GamesJan 9, 2023

@ariaflame Because D&D is the Zeitgeist. It is the entry point for most TTRPG players, and then they branch out to other games.

Keeping D&D behind a walled garden is designed to keep players inside their own ecosystem bubble and cut their exposure to anything outside it.

The attack on other TTRPGs is not direct. It's a consequence.

Is it intentional? Not likely. They just don't care.

Show threadAriaflameJan 10, 2023
@dragoncrown So should all other RPGs also have an OGL allowing others to use their material without any recompense?
Show threadAriaflameJan 10, 2023
@dragoncrown But I do agree it's probably a lawyer thing not a game designer thing
Show thread0x726f63636fJan 9, 2023

@dragoncrown considering the deep gaming knowledge shared by creators (collectively, as a group), why don't you all get together and build an alternative and open source gaming system?

I don't mean it as a provocation, but seriously. Think about how open source software is managed: you get together, create an association, establish ground rules, and then (text being text) you can easily use a github repo to manage the whole thing collaboratively.

Show threadDragoncrown GamesJan 9, 2023
@roccobarbi That is something that is actually being explored by a large group of both small and large creators.