Summary: <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> This episode, Keepers Murph, Dave, and Bridgett chat with industry superstar, leader, coach, author, screenwriter, professional GM (and more), B. Dave. Walters. Bridgett got super distracted with both his and Murph's voice-- hence the episode title. We're not sorry. <br> <br> <br> <br> Campus Crier<br> <br> <br> <br> The Campus Crier is where we talk about recent Mythos-related events and happenings in the world. This episode was recorded on January 26, 2023. Pound-sign facts.<br> <br> <br> <br> Something that will come as a surprise to no one who funds TTRPG Kickstarters, <a href="https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/53084/funagain-logistics-close-up-shop">Funagain Logistics is closing</a>. Another casualty of the Covid-inflicted shipping crisis - they just couldn’t keep up with the chaos and demand on their operations. They will fulfill their current agreements and continue shipping through April 30th, but after that no more complaining about Funagain and their shipping of Free League kickstarters.<br> <br> <br> <br> Update on Laird Barron and his condition, a <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/laird-barron-hospital-costs-medication-costs">GoFundME campaign</a> has been started for the author Laird Barron who has been hospitalized in serious condition. Mike Davis from the Lovecraft eZine has organized this and so far they have managed to raise over $133k. Laird is still in the hospital but in stable condition, though he still has a long way to go, and that is going to cost a lot of money. American healthcare is bullshit.<br> <br> <br> <br> Aint Slayed won the <a href="https://morrus.podbean.com/e/233-top-20-favorite-rpg-podcasts-of-2022/">Top Actual Play Podcast from ENWORLD</a>! Congratulations!!! Amazing team, fantastic games, and well deserved award for sure. Welcome to the Hall of Fame yo!<br> <br> <br> <br> The OGL Fiasco rolls on. In the two weeks since we last recorded, the situation has evolved, and yet, everything that was put in motion with the leaked OGL 1.1 has continued in play. Wizards, through D&D Beyond, issued not one but two statements. The first when they tried to just “whoops we’re sorry!” and then slightly alter the terms of the new OGL. And then after that just made things worse, <a href="https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1428-a-working-conversation-about-the-open-game-license">they apologized again</a> and then <a href="https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1432-starting-the-ogl-playtest">created a new 1.2 OGL</a> which they have actually released as a draft this time for the community to help determine the terms. Or something like that. <br> <br> <br> <br> Meanwhile, as mentioned before, out of all the chaos many game companies have collected their D&D toys and left 5e behind. For good. Paizo, creator of the largest OGL 1.0 licensed-games Pathfinder and Starfinder, has announced they are creating the irrevocable Open RPG Creative License (ORC). They are tracking a still-growing list of companies that have joined them, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo6si7y?The-ORC-Alliance-Grows">at least 1500 publishers as of recording</a>, including Chaosium, EN Publishing, Fantasy Grounds, Foundry and Roll20, Frog God Games, Goodman Games, Green Ronin, Kobold Press, Pelgrane Press, and many many more. You can <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo6si7y">find a link to an updated list</a> on the Paizo community boards. <br> <br> <br> <br> It looks like Wizards is now in full reputation rescue mode now, but it looks like the damage has been done. WOTC has also announced they are going to release the core rules of D&D as Creative Commons content later on another sure sign that ...
