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So what are we doing re #opendnd? Still having crisis meetings but our thoughts are along the lines of (a) de-OGL-ifying Level Up and movingto a true open license; would need work but luckily we didn't use SRD text we wrote our own (b) investing more in WOIN our in-house system.
De-OGL-fying #levelup5e is a chore, but doable; it's more a layout challenge as renamed elements would need moving alphabetically.
WOIN is easy. We'll do a new starter set and we'll adopt a new license to share it.
Any good bestiary is filled with inspiring lore. In #LevelUp5E Monstrous Menagerie, I'm proud of the way we moved past dated tropes and found new stories to tell about classic monsters. Here are some of my favorite new MoMe monster stories and the designers that wrote them.
Anthony Alipio @dm_fromscratch repudiates the "bad medusas cursed for vanity" D&D trope. "Ancient history books speak of vain mortals who challenged a god of love, seeking to rival him in beauty, and were cursed for their arrogance," BUT...
@dm_fromscratch "...Medusas tell a different story, one of a close-knit band of snake-haired warriors called the Gorgons, who toppled the cruel and capricious deity they once served." There's tragedy in his account of Queen Medusa and her children.
