Russ “Morrus” Morrissey

They've gone back on that. So last week, for those who might have missed it, so last week we were talking about how D&D Beyond was going to be handling the 2014 rules going forward. And for most things, they were going to be like a 2014 and a 2024 version. Mm-hmm. which you could choose from. And the 2014 one would be my legacy. But spells were notably missing from that list.

And it basically meant that everybody was going to have to be using the 2024 spells, not the 2014 spells. Yeah. They've backtracked on that now and basically said, sorry, we've heard what you said and we misjudged that. Now, yes, you're going to be able to choose between the 2014 and 2024 spells.

The thing that I just found really odd about that was, why just spells and not everything else? Why wouldn't it all be all or nothing? Why nearly everything except spells? That's what made it weird.

That's what they're doing now, isn't it? You can choose.

Like, cool.

Yeah. Right, anyway. There's some other D&D news. There's some other stuff that's coming out next year.

Oh, let's do that first, then. Okay, let's do that one first, and then we'll do the books. You were intrigued by this.

Intrigued.

Intrigued.

That's the interesting thing. Like Wizards of the Coast is going to be selling 5e Lord of the Rings to you.

He's fascinating. Go back 50 years or 40 odd years, DSR was being sued by the Tolkien estate for having hobbits, Ents and Balrogs and had to change them to halflings, treants and badels.

Yeah. But yeah, that is interesting. Those terms were well and truly tabled, were they not?

Yeah, like Lorraine Williams passed on the rights to Middle Earth back in the early 90s saying it wasn't worth it.

I know what you mean, and I've seen other people say that. I get exactly what you're saying there. It does seem a little odd, but it's not like they stopped selling 5e stuff, is it? No. They continue to...

No.

But Jess, if Wizards came to us and said, do you want to put your five e-books on D&D Beyond? We're not going to say no, are we?

Cobalt Press is there in Seattle. They all know each other. There's a bit of that involved.

Do you remember the university-decried OGL 2.0 that they tried to introduce a year or so ago?

Oh. When they were cancelling the OGL, they were doing great. The OGL 2.0. Oh, yeah. Paying Wizard of the Coast fees and all sorts of stuff. Yeah, yeah.

we'll cry yeah i remember that okay well that's this you know they didn't need to cancel the otl they just need to make a platform that people wanted to use instead yeah which they've done they've come up with a platform that people want to use and instead of forcing people to do that people are coming to them and saying please let us do that yeah so you know people will be begging to pay