Mastodawn

Ben Overmyer Jan 20, 2023

In other news, I think I'm going to sunset this Misskey instance and go back to using my Mastodon account (@dungeonHack). Misskey seems to be missing some features (exploring the Fediverse is... difficult), and running my own instance is not as much fun as I thought, hah.

I think most people who follow this account already follow my Mastodon account, so it's probably not a big deal....

Ben Overmyer Jan 20, 2023

So I'm working on a second edition of the Ingenium RPG. This time around (compared to 2014, the last attempt), it will hew quite closely to the original edition. It fixes a bunch of typos and small flaws. It adds content. I'll talk more about this in a blog post on Sunday on Silver Gryphon Games' website.

#SilverGryphonGames #IngeniumRPG #TTRPG

Ben Overmyer Jan 18, 2023

I read https://stackingthebricks.com/how-blogs-broke-the-web/ this morning, and it has me wondering if I should ditch my static site generator and just maintain my personal site as direct HTML.

#WebDesign #SmallWeb

How the Blog Broke the Web

I first got online in 1993, back when the Web had a capital letter — three, in fact — and long before irony stretched its legs and unbuttoned its flan

Ben Overmyer Jan 14, 2023

Something to keep in mind as we rage, fret, and panic over the OGL.... is that much more artistic and, frankly, creative explorations of role-playing have been happening for the last couple decades. It's commonly called "Nordic LARP," though that seems to be understating the field in both words. https://nordiclarp.org/what-is-nordic-larp/ #LARP #Creativity #TTRPG

What is Nordic Larp? –

Nordic larp is a set of larp traditions in the Nordic countries with an emphasis on collaborative creation, unobtrusive rules & a rich variety of styles.

Ben Overmyer Jan 13, 2023

Anna Jan 13, 2023

Go for it Mastodon, find me a home. Boost, toot, whatever. I’ve been down this road but let’s try it again. Do not crap out on me now.

Ben Overmyer Jan 13, 2023

This is a nostalgia hit for me. There is an entire generation now - maybe multiple generations - that have never heard this sound. https://www.windytan.com/2012/11/the-sound-of-dialup-pictured.html #nostalgia #DialUp

The sound of the dialup, pictured

If you ever connected to the Internet before the 2000s, you probably remember how it sounded. But what do these sounds mean?

absorptions

Ben Overmyer Jan 13, 2023

Not to throw more fuel on the OGL fire, but this is a fascinating take by an actual lawyer: https://www.enworld.org/threads/hello-i-am-lawyer-with-a-psa-almost-everyone-is-wrong-about-the-ogl-and-srd-clearing-up-confusion.694192/

Short version: yes, the OGL - even the 1.0a version - is actually bad.

#OGL #OGLPocalypse #OpenGaming

Hello, I am lawyer with a PSA: almost everyone is wrong about the OGL and SRD. Clearing up confusion.

Hello, community. Like many of you, I am a nerd. I am also a lawyer. With all the OGL controversy, I have been seeing a lot of claims on the internet, here and elsewhere, about what the OGL is and how it interacts with third party content and copyright law. Many of these claims are, in my...

EN World Tabletop RPG News & Reviews

Ben Overmyer Jan 13, 2023

Kit✏Kendrick Jan 13, 2023

Attached is the text of #Hasbro / #WizardsOfTheCoast / #DnDBeyond finally putting out a press release over the #OGL mess. (Source: https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1423-an-update-on-the-open-game-license-ogl).
Laughable alternate truths include "it was just a draft" (industry publishers had been given the leaked document to sign) and "this was about protecting our players from bad racist people and unscrupulous NFT and blockchain people" (it was about money made by people who are not #WoTC which might be redirected back to Hasbro)

An Update on the Open Game License (OGL)

Although we are not yet able to release the OGL at this time, we would like to update you on how things are developing, and the goals we have in mind fo...

An Update on the Open Game License (OGL)

Ben Overmyer Jan 12, 2023

Orange Lantern Jan 12, 2023

I think WotC might be shitting bricks right now, because the DnD Beyond live stream on Twitch, scheduled for now, just got spontaneously cancelled against the backdrop of a chat raging on for about an hour with #OpenDnD and sub cancellation after cancellation.

What an amazing time to be alive.

#DnD #ogl #ttrpg #wotc #hasbro

Ben Overmyer Jan 12, 2023

Silver Gryphon Games' stance on the OGL debacle: https://www.silvergryphongames.com/2023/01/12/protecting-open-gaming-our-position-on-the-ogl-crisis/

#TTRPG #OGL #SilverGryphonGames

Protecting open gaming: Our position on the OGL crisis - Silver Gryphon Games

Wizards of the Coast has announced their new OGL and their intent to destroy third-party publishers. We reject their attempt to take back open gaming.

Silver Gryphon Games - New worlds, classic ideas