„There are ways to make it simpler” completely misses the point of something being simple.
If you put in lots of effort and hard work, you can make it easy to avoid having to put in lots of effort and hard work.
Well, if you have a techy person take an hour to set it up for you, it can be simple for the end user, without them having to do anything technical themselves.
This is deadass making me reconsider dnd, thanks /gen
Also, with dnd, you buy a physical book and you own it forever right? Physical books don’t have DRM, unless there’s something I’m missing.
From what I know, it’s not an exact match, unless there’s something going on with virtual tabletops.
The ownership difference I know of matters more for third party creators. Under D&D’s OGL (at least the new versions,) Wizards can own anything created with it (or so I’ve heard.) Pathfinder’s ORC (used for 2e at least) is explicitly unowned by Paizo so they couldn’t even put such a clause in there if they wanted to.
Other than that, both licenses pretty much allow you to mod as you wish, and publish said mods for profit.
Correct about physical books, and I doubt physical books are going away. However, WotC has been leaning towards digital distribution, and hired on people with experience in software-as-a-service.
By all means, keep playing the version of the game you own! But it looks like the future of D&D might make a lot of content available to rent, not to own. Hopefully I’m wrong, but honestly, there are plenty of other games that let you own your stuff.
It wouldn’t bother me renting campaigns if it was much cheaper than the print version. It isnt like I am going to play it again or even DM an entire old campaign.
But you know it will be the same price cause fuck us
And that’s if they even offer a physical version. I’m betting we’ll see a lot of digital-only content. And if you want to use it in the official VTT, I imagine the monetization is going to be even worse.
Digital Only with Proprietary DRM making sure you need to use their Official App (which will never work the way you want it to) in order to read the rented Files.
Offline Access only included in the Premium Plan (50% markup) and will be buggy for the first 4 years, occasionally not actually allowing you to access the files because the DRM bugged out.
Just subjected my pathfinder group to this
You mean your mum and the goldfish? I don’t know of any other people who play it.
I play with a group now! All you have to do is become forever DM…
I mean, D&D 5th edition is licensed CC-BY, which is VERY open source.
The base ruleset (SRD) only. Everything else is OGL, which has proven to be as open as
WizardsHasbro wants to make it.
I mean… no one can take my physical d&d books or pdfs or miniatures…? I’m sure I could ‘buy’ online copies of stuff but why would anyone?
True, but (a) IIRC, not all 5e books are even available as PDFs, and (b) D&D seems to be leaning towards a service business model. I doubt they’ll get rid of books entirely, but still, Paizo has a more straightforward “buy the thing, own the thing” approach.
Golarion is also a way more badass setting than Forgotten Realms!
