Re: WOTC tries to claw back the Deck of Many Things

On 4/25/2025 1:24 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Fri, 25 Apr 2025 11:59:02 +0200, Kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com> wrote:
 

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https://www.geeknative.com/172570/did-wizards-of-the-coast-refresh-their-deck-of-many-things-trademark-before-releasing-dds-srd-5-2/
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https://thaumavore.substack.com/p/i-drafted-a-legal-argument-against
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So it seems that WotC with their response to the widespread criticism
about their license changes released a lot of things under a Creative
Commons license, and now with the release of SRD 5.2 they are trying to
get some parts of it back. (specifically they are trying to refresh
trademarks for the Deck of Many Things and the Orb of Dragonkind, which
mind you, still are in the SRD, but renamed to Mysterious Deck and
Dragon Orb)
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I wonder how that all will shake out for them.

 Not well.
 I'm actually surprised they left the Deck in the SRD to start with,
both in names and mechanics. It seemed unique enough -in character and
mechanics- that it should have been left out from the start (then
again, they also left in the (renamed) Apparatus of Kwalish and Sphere
of Annihilation... or the Bag of Holding, for that matter, all of
which I might have cut in favor of leaving in only generic +1 Swords
and ordinary Potions of Healing).

I'm sure the Deck was a thinly veiled copy of something in some fantasy book, like so many other things, like the Apparatus of Kwalish which I remember finding came from somewhere else originally.  Bag of Holding, really?  "It's bigger on the inside."  Sphere of Annihilation = micro black hole.
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-Justisaur
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