Unsurprisingly, there’s a TVTropes for that:

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/UnspokenPlanGuarantee

> Admittedly, the reason for revealing only failed plans to the audience is obvious. There's no drama in something going wrong if no one knows what was supposed to happen. Conversely, where's the drama in seeing exactly what you were just told would happen? The only exception is when the plan is Crazy Enough to Work; when every bullet point could Go Horribly Wrong, then each success is a big, suspense-building deal. As a general rule of thumb, if things do go according to how the audience is told, you can expect that the characters are walking into a trap.

The CPU hands the recipe to the GPU, and the GPU actually cooks it. Knowing the recipe is not the time-consuming part, it’s the actual cooking.

Okay, nothing so far really explains what the OGL is properly. It’s not about what you can do in your personal games with friends; WotC never could and never will be able to control that.

The Open Gaming License is a license that Wizards of the Coast, publishers of D&D, released twenty years ago. It basically made most of the core rules of the game free to use, especially for third party publishers, under certain relatively permissive conditions. This means that other publishers could sell rule books compatible with D&D, using the D&D rules, and WotC promised they wouldn’t sue or demand royalties or anything.

This was not a purely altruistic move by any means. By releasing the rules for free and allowing other publishers to release their own supplements, D&D became THE tabletop RPG, the game that everyone was playing and wanted to play, and WotC enjoyed enormous success from this ecosystem.

It’s also worth noting that game rules are probably not copyrightable to begin with; the exact language used in the books is copyrightable, but systems and equations are not. The OGL lets you use the exact language of the original rules, and was a sign of good faith for WotC that they wouldn’t sue, but people already had the right to make supplements compatible with the D&D rules.

About a month ago, with a new edition of the game on the horizon, WotC tried to release a new version of the OGL with some notable changes. They wanted royalties for publishers making more than a certain amount, they wanted to be able to deny you the right to use the game rules for anything they deemed inappropriate, they wanted to nullify the previous OGL which was supposed to be irrevocable, and… the community reacted. Hard. This OGL update threatened to shut down or heavily hurt tons of smaller publishers putting out RPG content.

They just walked back their stance massively today, after weeks of digging themselves deeper, but it’s been a huge blow to trust that won’t likely recover soon.

It’s just dumb old-fashioned etiquette/manners shit, like having your elbows on the table. There was probably some original justification for it, but does it really matter?

What I’m wondering is… where do you even get a Nazi uniform? Like unless you work in movie props or something. Surely they don’t just sell those in costume shops.

The theme of the dress party was uniforms, and the first thing this guy thinks of is Nazi? Putting aside the obvious, surely there were uniforms that were simply easier to acquire.

So Putin is the Russian people’s fault, you’re saying. Blame the Italians for not ousting Mussolini. Okay got it.

Oh so it’s that easy then? You wanna say that about every oppressive regime in history? It’s the people’s fault, they should have just risen up?

Good luck with that line of logic.

“Their loss” meaning whose? The average people who just wanted to have a family, or the authoritarian government that forced such a ridiculous policy on them?