tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28751902.post2242283536313055909..comments2024-03-26T02:31:48.024-05:00Comments on Trollsmyth: Happy New O5Ltrollsmythhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01895349218958093151noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28751902.post-79629850020887252642016-01-17T15:47:07.754-06:002016-01-17T15:47:07.754-06:00I think the major thing that stops rules bloat wou...I think the major thing that stops rules bloat would be the fact that OGL stuff won't have the official trademark attached and be very obviously not-canon, and DM Guild stuff is explicitly not canonical unless and until Wizards decides to incorporate it into an official product.<br /><br />If you don't want bloat at your table, simply say "We aren't going to use any third-party or DM Guild content in this campaign"; this is a perfectly reasonable stance to take and only a true jackass could object. If you love bloat, the door is open for you to go nuts.<br /><br />Compare this to the situation you had in the 3.X days, when everything with the Wizards name on it was considered as canon - not by everyone, but by a sizable constituency - and there was a corresponding pressure to get more and more books if you wanted to keep up with where 3.X was going and what the current lie of the land was. With this gambit, Wizards can keep doing a sedate pace of "official" releases - proper books distributed through conventional channels and explicitly presented as being canon - and the DM Guild stuff will represent a whole swathe of potential directions to take stuff in that nobody especially has to keep track of if they don't want to.<br /><br />Wizards have found a way to simultaneously get an extra income stream, cater to the people who are hungry for more content, and protect the core of the game from bloat. It's an incredibly smart move and my respect for them has shot up.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com