Episode 44 - 2023 and Critical role

 A quick look at 2023 and a few highlights followed by a discussion of Critical Role and their RPGs via Darrington Press

Podcast

Interesting text review of Candela Obscura by Cannibal Halfling Gaming

My games on DTRPG

Episode 43 - DnD CC BY

After a torrid few weeks/months, the rpg community got some potentially good news yesterday (27/1/23).

DnD Beyond made an announcement re the DnD SRD and OGL, with the option to use the contents of the SRD under CC BY. The exact ramifications of this need to be worked out but right now this looks like a positive move and will begin repairing the damage caused by Hasbro's disastrous plans to move to One DnD and OGL 2.

Episode 43

The DnD Beyond announcement

https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1439-ogl-1-0a-creative-commons

The SRD 5.1 CC BY 4L pdf

https://www.dndbeyond.com/attachments/39j2li89/SRD5.1-CCBY4.0License.pdf

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Episode 42 - OGL drama

Episode 42 - A look at the Hasbro/DnD drama that has consumed the online RPG community recently. The safe harbour of the OGL is now in doubt and it could be that ORC becomes the new banner that folks flock to. Will the community forgive and forget or is DnD on a slow decline?

Investor Statement

"The one thing I would add is when you think about Dungeons & Dragons Beyond and it being the premier digital tool set, it gives us a great opportunity to expand both internationally, but also the tools and capabilities we give all of our players, it's going to give us a wonderful opportunity to monetize more of our player base than the Dungeon Masters that we are monetizing today."

https://www.fool.com/earnings/call-transcripts/2022/10/18/hasbro-has-q3-2022-earnings-call-transcript/

The DND beyond statement re OGL 1.1

Be aware that the version that is live on the page is different from the version first posted and is subject to being edited. So comments about it could be based on an earlier version

https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1423-an-update-on-the-open-game-license-ogl

Video re the OGL statement

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeWaq6pQQW4

The Thermocline tipping point

https://twitter.com/garius/status/1588115310124539904?s=20&t=9aE0Drp3vvUrwpYGgxt58Q

ORC

https://gizmodo.com/paizo-wizards-of-the-coast-dnd-open-rpg-ogl-1-1-1849982443

OGL saved DnD

https://rsdancey.medium.com/22-years-ago-i-saved-d-d-today-i-want-to-save-the-open-gaming-license-77e79eaddfb2

Copyright and games

https://www.americanbar.org/groups/intellectual_property_law/publications/landslide/2014-15/march-april/its_how_you_play_game_why_videogame_rules_are_not_expression_protected_copyright_law/#:~:text=Games%20rules%20have%20never%20been,no%20excuse%20to%20find%20otherwise

News about the OGL drama

https://gizmodo.com/dungeons-dragons-wizards-hasbro-ogl-open-game-license-1849981136

Phd thesis on the OGL

https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/phd/58/

Episode 41 - A reading of The Rats in the Walls by H P Lovecraft

 For Halloween I have done a reading of The Rats in the Walls by H P Lovecraft. I have changed the name of the cat to Midnight but otherwise left the story as is.

Episode 40 - Anniversary edition

In this Episode I chat about my RPG plans for 2022 and celebrate other 40th anniversaries; namely 1981's DnD B/X and 1982's Call of Cthulhu

This podcast was released to patrons on 7/7/2022

House of the Exorcist

House of the Exorcist - Bart Wynants | DriveThruRPG.com 

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Episode 39 - That which is dead can eternal lie

 Hello,

Well Covid 19  rather interfered with my gaming plans, but it did act as a huge nudge to get role playing back up and running. A lot of my gaming has thus been steam based board games and online rpgs. This Episode talks about some of the things that have been going on since my last release.

Eclipse v1.5 update

https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/2023256/eclipse-15th-dawn-galaxy/page/1

Collaborative Adventure 'House of the Exorcist'

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/375167/House-of-the-Exorcist

Tech (includes my play through of Detroit on PS4)

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcuvNc6sum9t-zXJjLsHWeQ

Tabletop gaming

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCttTsZ_c9xYp9YopFf2DgvA

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Tekumel

I recently started hacking the Dee Sanction to play a Tekumel game. In preparation I recorded, a while back, a Reading of the Man of Gold that you might enjoy.

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2022

Welcome to 2022, I hope to bring you more stuff this year as I have almost finished my studies. To catch up on what I have been doing you can check my youtube channels and my Patreon.

A reading on my Patreon

A recent rpg video

My tech channel on YouTube

My Twitter

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Episode 38 - So Long and thanks for all the Fish

I have created a Patreon Page and have decided to move the podcast to be early access to my supporters. This is the last publicly available podcast without a time delay.

Episode 38

Support my Youtube, Podcast and other creative projects on Patreon

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Episode 37 - The One before Essen

So Essen is coming and its been a long while since I did a Podcast! So time to burble on about games, mostly Kickstarter ones. I have started using Google drive so hopefully the mp3 link works out ok.

Episode 37

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Episode 36 - My top 10 of 2016

Happy 2017! I join the bandwagon and post a top 10 for games of 2016, also a brief comment on my all time top 10