D&D General NFTs Are Here To Ruin Dungeons & Dragons

[Steel_Wind]

So, let's review:

Author of article writes about Gripnr, a project somehow involving blockchain/NFT's and 5e. How this will work and what it will do? The author has no idea as the company isn't prepared to release the details of its plans yet. So most of the article is rampant speculation and outright supposition, where the author describes a business model she just makes up out of whole cloth -- because she doesn't actually know a goddamned thing about it.

The author then engages in rampant speculation about the project, makes naughty word up about what it does and doesn't do -- and then some here quote it as gospel. This is why we have laws about commercial libel and why it is highly actionable.

Same author LIBELS the company and LIES about how the company's employees are being paid -- and as that fits into your pre-conceived notion of this all being a grift, many here lap it up.

The Lead Designer, who I've known for many years as an ethical and remarkably outspoken RPG designer, posts here in response. He says No, they are not paying me in NFTs - they are paying me in dollars and very well, too, thank-you-very-much.

He tells you he has been a senior designer at both WotC and Paizo. 3.x, 4e, Star Wars: SAGA, PF1 and PF2? He's had a major hand in every one of the designs of those games (some or all of which we have all played) and he says the company behind Gripnr is legit and treats its employees well and pays them well, too -- and he's not making a grift, he's making a RPG based on the 5e SRD, details to follow.

Some then attack the designer for not disclosing, you know, FACTS about the game which haven't been released yet, nor about the business model and how NFT applies to it. Not that the lack of facts seemed to have disturbed them in the least in the preceding 5 pages of comments.

o_0

If you are a right-thinking person, you should be shaking your head right now by page 6 of this naughty word thread.

Look, do I think NFTs are almost entirely a scam? Yes I do. Do I think crypto is, similarly, almost entirely a misplaced used of technology that should actively be regulated into oblivion? Yes I do. Does that mean Gripnr falls within that same arena. Likely, yes. Not because of the people involved, but in spite of them.

That's the nature of blockchain in the current milieu, but it is not inevitable that must be so. Because of SRM's involvement, I will keep an open mind, for now.

For God's sakes, let them finish the design of the actual product, and let those details roll out before you judge it. All the rest is just vicious sophistry masquerading as informed critique.

 

[darjr]

So, let's review:

Author of article writes about Gripnr, a project somehow involving blockchain/NFT's and 5e. How this will work and what it will do? The author has no idea as the company isn't prepared to release the details of its plans yet. So most of the article is rampant speculation and outright supposition, where the author describes a business model he just makes up out of whole cloth -- because he doesn't actually know a goddamned thing about it.

The author then engages in rampant speculation about the project, makes naughty word up about what it does and doesn't do -- and then some here quote it as gospel. This is why we have laws about commercial libel and why it is highly actionable.

Same author LIBELS the company and LIES about how the company's employees are being paid -- and as that fits into your pre-conceived notion of this all being a grift, many here lap it up.

The Lead Designer, who I've known for many years as an ethical and remarkably outspoken RPG designer, posts here in response. He says No, they are not paying me in NFTs - they are paying me in dollars and very well, too, thank-you-very-much.

He tells you he has been a senior designer at both WotC and Paizo. 3.x, 4e, Star Wars: SAGA, PF1 and PF2? He's had a major hand in every one of the designs of those games (some or all of which we have all played) and he says the company behind Gripnr is legit and treats its employees well and pays them well, too -- and he's not making a grift, he's making a RPG based on the 5e SRD, details to follow.

Some then attack the designer for not disclosing, you know, FACTS about the game which haven't been released yet, nor about the business model and how NFT applies to it. Not that the lack of facts seemed to have disturbed them in the least in the preceding 5 pages of comments.

o_0

If you are a right-thinking person, you should be shaking your head right now by page 6 of this naughty word thread.

Look, do I think NFTs are almost entirely a scam? Yes I do. Do I think crypto is, similarly, almost entirely a misplaced used of technology that should actively be regulated into oblivion? Yes I do. Does that mean Gripnr falls within that same arena. Likely, yes. Not because of the people involved, but in spite of them.

That's the nature of blockchain in the current milieu, but it is not inevitable that must be so. Because of SRM's involvement, I will keep an open mind, for now.

For God's sakes, let them finish the design of the actual product, and let those details roll out before you judge it. All the rest is just vicious sophistry masquerading as informed critique.

Yea, your post MISGENDERS the author after it's been posted that there was an issue with that already?

So don't mind me if I think you've already got your facts wrong.

 

[Steel_Wind]

Yea, your post MISGENDERS the author after it's been posted that there was an issue with that already?

So don't mind me if I think you've already got your facts wrong.

If that's the best bullet you've got in your gun? You are shooting blanks.

Forgive me for assuming an author who was making crap up was male. Usually, women are a little more cautious. But if that person identifies as a woman? Fine. I'm a little more concerned about what they say, not in how they identify themselves.

 

[darjr]

Gripnr attacks drivethru.

this is spinning a justifiable practice as a problem solvable by a blockchain payment rail, while ignoring the problems of the bc, AND without actually having a competitive product. gripnrs twitter is writing checks it's non-existent protocol can't cash.

 

[darjr]

If that's the best bullet you've got in your gun? You are shooting blanks.

Forgive me for assuming an author who was making crap up was male. Usually, women are a little more cautious. But if that person identifies as a woman? Fine. I'm a little more concerned about what they say, not in how they identify themselves.

And you did it again!

I'm beginning to think you're doing it on purpose!

A SIMPLE basic fact you got wrong.

 

[LongTimeLurker]

So, let's review:

Author of article writes about Gripnr, a project somehow involving blockchain/NFT's and 5e. How this will work and what it will do? The author has no idea as the company isn't prepared to release the details of its plans yet. So most of the article is rampant speculation and outright supposition, where the author describes a business model she just makes up out of whole cloth -- because she doesn't actually know a goddamned thing about it.

The author then engages in rampant speculation about the project, makes naughty word up about what it does and doesn't do -- and then some here quote it as gospel. This is why we have laws about commercial libel and why it is highly actionable.

Same author LIBELS the company and LIES about how the company's employees are being paid -- and as that fits into your pre-conceived notion of this all being a grift, many here lap it up.

The Lead Designer, who I've known for many years as an ethical and remarkably outspoken RPG designer, posts here in response. He says No, they are not paying me in NFTs - they are paying me in dollars and very well, too, thank-you-very-much.

He tells you he has been a senior designer at both WotC and Paizo. 3.x, 4e, Star Wars: SAGA, PF1 and PF2? He's had a major hand in every one of the designs of those games (some or all of which we have all played) and he says the company behind Gripnr is legit and treats its employees well and pays them well, too -- and he's not making a grift, he's making a RPG based on the 5e SRD, details to follow.

Some then attack the designer for not disclosing, you know, FACTS about the game which haven't been released yet, nor about the business model and how NFT applies to it. Not that the lack of facts seemed to have disturbed them in the least in the preceding 5 pages of comments.

o_0

If you are a right-thinking person, you should be shaking your head right now by page 6 of this naughty word thread.

Look, do I think NFTs are almost entirely a scam? Yes I do. Do I think crypto is, similarly, almost entirely a misplaced used of technology that should actively be regulated into oblivion? Yes I do. Does that mean Gripnr falls within that same arena. Likely, yes. Not because of the people involved, but in spite of them.

That's the nature of blockchain in the current milieu, but it is not inevitable that must be so. Because of SRM's involvement, I will keep an open mind, for now.

For God's sakes, let them finish the design of the actual product, and let those details roll out before you judge it. All the rest is just vicious sophistry masquerading as informed critique.

Then the author should SCRAM until they're prepared to discuss the actual SPECIFICS of the scam that they are involved in. Because the default position, for anyone with two brain cells to rub together, is that NFTs are a SCAM that actively RAPES the envitonment.

Oh, and I'll judge what I feel like using any criteria that I choose.

 

[Vaalingrade]

It's selling NFTs, not rape.

That doesn't mean the behaviors aren't analogous.

People have the same set of initial response to a friend jumping out from behind a corner as they do to a tiger pouncing them. No one is equivocating the stimulus, just the response.

 

[Bill Zebub]

For sale: polyhedral dice. Never rolled.

"Only dropped once."

 

[Bill Zebub]

Usually, women are a little more cautious.

WTF?

 

[Jer]

Hello everyone,

My name is Stephen, and I am the Lead Game Designer at GRIPNR LLC.

Oh man.

I'm going to give some free, friendly advice that has been hard earned over my many decades of life. You can pass this off to your boss as well who is busy personally attacking the journalist who wrote the story on Twitter.

You guys need to get a communications person and let them do all of this. Individually going out to defend your work is the first impulse of everyone when they feel like they're being "attacked" but it's also the worst possible thing you can do from a corporate perspective. You need to hire a comms person who can remain detached, gather information, and present responses to stuff like this. And also to decide if it even needs to be responded to. And then everyone else involved needs to stay off social media (at least where things like this are concerned) and let your social media response team handle it. And if your company doesn't have a social media team and you're working in a highly controversial tech space - like crypto/NFTs - then you need to ask yourself seriously what your management is doing and why they haven't done the basics for communications support that you folks should have. If you do have a communications team you all need to back off and let them do their jobs and if you don't you need to hire one, because without one you're sunk.

(A second bit of advice you can pass off to your boss is that he needs to be able to answer journalists who ask the question "why does this need to be on a blockchain - why can't it be in a database you host?" Because if the only answer to that is "NFTs! Resale Value! Tokens! Blockchain!" you're also sunk eventually, it just may take a bit longer for you all to realize it. Because it means your model is based on the trading of digital pogs and not anything inherent in what you're putting out, and anyone can get a digital pog to trade from a lot of places)