D&D (2024) Kobold Press posts 2024 DMG Hit Piece

[Mirrorrorrim]

If someone hasn't ever (and doesn't plan to) buy any Kobold Press products... it seems like a real waste of a person's time to actually get annoyed at what they do for their marketing. Why are you wasting your brain space on a situation that you aren't even involved in?

It's like the people who get mad at what WotC produces in their new products even though they don't actually use them. What is the point in actually caring what they do? It's like WotC is living rent-free in their heads.

Not sure who you are calling out. Many of us have bought some of their content like Tome of Beasts, long before ToV came out.

I have been very critical of Kobold Press ever since their ToV announcement marketing.

I want a happy 5E/+adjacent community where everybuddy makes and share content in good faith so we have lots of options!

Kobold Press does not seem to share my interest.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Hit piece is an over statement, all the points were reasonable and fair.

My only thought on it otherwise is that the FR DM book might be the DMG for advanced DMs functionally, but that is entirely hypothetical.

 

[Xenolith234]

Well, Rotten Tomatoes is AFAIK a review aggregator – it takes reviews written elsewhere and aggregates them. There's presumably some curation involved in deciding which reviews to showcase, but they still don't write their own reviews.

In addition. Rotten Tomatoes (to my knowledge) is not in the business of producing their own movies or TV shows. Kobold Press, however, is in the business of producing GM guides. There's a pretty big difference between a review saying "Book A sucks" and one saying "Book A sucks, and you should buy my book B instead." In big-business marketing, folks tend not to directly compare their products with those of specific competitors, and instead say things like "lasts up to 40% longer than other leading brands".

Kobold Press - lasts up to 40% longer than the other brand!

 

[Mirrorrorrim]

Hit piece is an over statement, all the points were reasonable and fair.

My only thought on it otherwise is that the FR DM book might be the DMG for advanced DMs functionally, but that is entirely hypothetical.

I will say this... this review should have come from a third party.

They wrote a self-referential fluff piece and merged it with a hit piece. It is petty as flack. I don't care for it in any marketing.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

I will say this... this review should have come from a third party.

They wrote a self-referential fluff piece and merged it with a hit piece. It is petty as flack. I don't care for it in any marketing.

They want to review stuff, they have a right to.

 

[Cadence]

Would Kobold Press get a big boos in sales for their line if they managed to goad someone at Hasbro/WotC into taking Book of Ebon Tides and Tome of Beasts off of DDB in a snit?

 

[Parmandur]

They want to review stuff, they have a right to.

Sure, they have all sorts of rights. People have a right to be disappointed with this, too.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Would Kobold Press get a big boos in sales for their line if they managed to goad someone at Hasbro/WotC into taking Book of Ebon Tides and Tome of Beasts off of DDB in a snit?

I doubt that will happen.

 

[Parmandur]

I doubt that will happen.

Probably not.

But I would have doubted a major outfit like Kobold Press would have let a weird screed like this go up, so who knows?

 

[Mirrorrorrim]

They want to review stuff, they have a right to.

Yes! They do have that choice! I support this.

And they can also choose to do a poor, petty job of it.

What should matter to them is how the Community perceives it.