Matt Colville to Launch Alternative to D&D 5E

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Matt Colville, the famous Dungeons and Dragons content creator behind the MCDM YouTube channel and the Arcadia magazine, has just announced that he’s working on a new game. This new fantasy tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG) is set to become a direct competitor to Wizards of the Coast’s Dungeons and Dragons.

The announcement comes on the heels of the biggest TTRPG controversy of the year: the Open Game License (OGL) 1.1 debacle. In short, back in 2000, Wizards created an open license that allowed third parties to use some of its content to create products. Then, at the beginning of 2023, during the preparation for the new edition of Dungeons and Dragons, a leak indicated that Wizards was planning to ditch its original OGL 1.0 license, something that would put hundreds if not thousands of creators in legal jeopardy in case they did not wish to follow the new draconian license. The D&D community has largely rejected the idea and proposed a boycott, and this opened up space for more games to rise.

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Now, Matt Colville has told the world more about his upcoming Heroic Fantasy RPG in a new video. The original announcement occurred back in January, but players received valuable information this week. In the video, Colville revealed that the team has started working on the project, and playtest is already happening. Later this year, the goal is to launch a prototype adventure with pre-generated characters to test out the waters before starting crowdfunding. Interestingly, the development of the game is being live-blogged on Patreon, giving players “unfiltered” content from game development, meaning that the team will bounce around ideas with the public to