If you are like me, then you are a huge fantasy fan. It is easily my favorite genre and I have to force myself to read to read other books. But for this list, we will be staying with this genre as we share our list of the 21 must read fantasy books of all time!

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    1 year ago

    What’s the WOTC nonsense? For the un-initiated.

    • YodaDaCoda@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      Caveat: this is not a good explanation, and deliberately avoids most of the nuance.

      WOTC licensed the core rules for 5e (a small fraction of what’s contained within the player’s handbook) in a way that allowed third-parties to release content designed for 5e. Then they changed the licence in a way that would require every third-party to pay them significant royalties. They said it wasn’t released and they were gathering feedback, but they were also telling people to sign it. It seems to be a money-grab by the parent company Hasbro (which also owns Magic the Gathering).

      Paizo came out with the ORC licence which is held by a trust, is irrevocable, and has community support.

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        1 year ago

        Hmm… getting some gist of the issue. But who is Paizo and what’s ORC?

        Edit: Nevermind, Pazio is the company that released Pathfinder.

        Thanks for the info.

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      1 year ago

      I’m probably wrong about what they’re talking about, but they made some changes in their push to essentially kill off old content. Sword coast or bust, but they’ve been pushing their world since 3rd edition.

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          1 year ago

          Oh! I just remembered now. They made some changes to their open gaming license which affects a lot of homebrew folks. That could be what the other poster was talking about.

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            1 year ago

            Yeah, that seems to be it. Thanks for the info! 😀