Hello, I am lawyer with a PSA: almost everyone is wrong about the OGL and SRD. Clearing up confusion.

[GMforPowergamers]

If there is going to be a boycott, it has to be "everything Hasbro".

so no GI joe no power rangers no transformers no playdough... like 1/3 the board games out there...

Sadly, that would include the D&D movie. Which I was looking forward to.

Hopefully things resolve to the satisfaction of the D&D community before then.

 

[overgeeked]

Mercer is going to have to test the wind carefully. The relationship between CR and D&D is a weird circular one. Years ago, CR brought people to D&D. But more recently I bet D&D brought people to CR. And as I understand it, CR fans skew older than most new D&D fans - 30-ish rather than late teens. I don't recall where I read that, though, so I won't plant a flag on it. In either case, knowing what percentage of his fans will follow him anywhere will be really important if he chooses to drop D&D for idealistic reasons.

As someone who's nominally a critter and regularly engages with that community, I'd say 80-90%. Easily. Just look at their Kickstarter.

 

[Xyxox]

Years. It came down years ago, long before all of this, at the same time tons of other stuff was taken down when they did a re-vamp. It's just that some only now noticed.

Yeah, there was tons of RTF and JPG files from the 2E era on the site for years and years that came down in the revamps. You used to be able to get the original Ravenloft module for free that way, just the text in RTF and the illustrations and maps in JPG.

 

[Xyxox]

I just visited the FAQ yesterday. It's linked here on the site in different threads.

You're seeing it on the wayback machine.

 

[Xyxox]

The problem is that the more common (IME) is Tom buys the PHB, and the DMG (maybe he even reads it) and the MM, then 5-10 other supplements some by wotc and some by 3pp... he runs games and 1/3 those players buy a PHB.

New players don't always buy PHB. They use the srd, they borrow a book, they pirate the book... ext.

And if WOnderworld of Amazement isn't on the market is Tom just not going to run the game? IS there not a chance that Tom would buy Strixhaven or the carnavel one from WotC instead?

Tom is an avid DM and not only has the core three, but multiple other rules books. Tom already has Strixhaven and is sure it wouldn't work for his group, but there are key elements in The Wonderlands of Amazement that he knows his group will like (considering Tom has stuff going back decades, he'll pull stuff from Ptolus and all sorts of other products, too). When he tells Dick and Harry about what to expect in the new campaign set in The Wonderlands of Amazement (that uses OGL 1.0a), they both know that this is PERFECT for introducing Sally and Mary to the game.

As an aside I now feel compelled to write a rules agnostic setting that I do not release under OGL 1.0a called The Wonderlands of Amazement.

 

[mamba]

If there is going to be a boycott, it has to be "everything Hasbro".

Sadly, that would include the D&D movie. Which I was looking forward to.

weirdly the TTRPG part might be the only thing I have to even think about. The rest of Hasbro is easily parted with

Hopefully things resolve to the satisfaction of the D&D community before then.

highly unlikely

 

[mamba]

so no GI joe no power rangers no transformers no playdough... like 1/3 the board games out there...

yep, none of that

 

[Yaarel]

so no GI joe no power rangers no transformers no playdough... like 1/3 the board games out there...

Yeah. Someone would have to put together a convenient list of "all things Hasbro" for me.

Hopefully, it doesnt come to that.

So far, it looks like rough days ahead.

 

[p_johnston]

Yeah. Someone would have to put together a convenient list of "all things Hasbro" for me.

Hopefully, it doesnt come to that.

So far, it looks like rough days ahead.

Yeah as a MTG fan ive been on the fence about full boycotting WOTC for years but they hadn't quite gotten me there. This'll probably change things which will suck because i love both D&D and MTG.

 

[Yaarel]

Hasbro-WotC appears to be banking on the "youth" to make the money for them.

But I doubt the "youth" want to see "greedy privileged big-corporation capitalists" win this struggle.

If a boycott happens, and all that social-media goodwill becomes poison against Hasbro-WotC

I doubt Hasbro-WotC will prevail. At all. Perhaps never recover.