They hired the pinkertons because they are a reputable company and one of the largest in the country that do things like track down stolen goods. Despite your insistence that they are jack booted thugs because of what long dead people did back in the late 19th and early 20th centuries along with being featured bad guys in red dead redemption 2 there's very little evidence they've done much of anything controversial in modern times. We don't know exactly but I wouldn't be surprised if they don't also occasionally deal with security issues for hasbro so they may well have already had a business relationship. But I didn't respond because it's obviously not going to matter because you've bought hook line and sinker into the internet outrage machine and can't even be bothered to listen to the podcast that started the whole thing.
D&D 5E Don't Throw 5e Away Because of Hasbro
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They hired the pinkertons because they are a reputable company and one of the largest in the country that do things like track down stolen goods. Despite your insistence that they are jack booted thugs because of what long dead people did back in the late 19th and early 20th centuries along with being featured bad guys in red dead redemption 2 there's very little evidence they've done much of anything controversial in modern times. We don't know exactly but I wouldn't be surprised if they don't also occasionally deal with security issues for hasbro so they may well have already had a business relationship. But I didn't respond because it's obviously not going to matter because you've bought hook line and sinker into the internet outrage machine and can't even be bothered to listen to the podcast that started the whole thing.
Imaro
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I'll ignore the childish quip and try to answer this respectfully...
Im not going to admit I'm wrong because what you find useful or more usable isn't necessarily what I would. Initially you made a blanket statement with no criteria and no access to one of the books... that was my main problem. I personally don't see these as making the MM more usable for me but I can concede they could for you. I think the main thing I'm looking for in a MM are
1. Large variety/ Large # of versions of monsters
2. Rules to adjust monsters and or templates (don't want full blown monster creation rules... not going to use them)
3. Description/artwork that allow me to convey the themes of this monster to players who may have no previous reference.
4. Suggestions either in description or art for monster groupings (doesn't have to be formal encounters)
5. Signs of a monster's pressence
(Of course this assumes good monster design at a base level).
Don't get me wrong i like some of the things you listed but feel they also have drawbacks...like pigeonholing monsters as opposed to allowing the flexibility a DM needs to find their own way monsters work in their world.
Edit: The other thing, and one of the reasons I don't want to have pre-determined criteria or judge a book before its out is that it may include some mechanic or system or whatever that I hadn't thought of yet that really enhances usability for me but isn't a part of my preconceived criteria
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TheSword
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I wasn’t wrong - I was talking about your original video. In the follow up (your words) “The Story Behind WotCs Blurring of D&D 2024 Videos”.
“I happen to be launching a Kickstarter on the following Tuesday. I bet this would be a good video to bring attention to my site and to my Kickstarter, because you know I’m running a business as well. […] I get it, I’m also promoting my own kickstarter, so it’s not like you know, Im not a saint in this thing.”
So a little bit more than fortuitous. You explicitly spelled out the link. You were making YouTube videos about D&D products at least in part to promote your own books. Your follow up videos - the one I copied, plus the follow-follow up Update on Blur-gate. (Not sure if you coined that term or not). Both making hay out of the controversy that has got so many people wound up, that they’re still raising it months later here. To be clear I didn’t bring blurgate up. A poster here did listing what he felt were the indignities of WotC which meant they couldn’t follow them.
Maybe I’m unfairly holding you partly accountable for the many other videos made by other folks attacking WotC about the same subject blurgate - it’s not about individuals for me, it’s about the collective impact of negativity from commentators. You contributed to that and fueled it. You can say and do what you like but when you create a thread where you basically said there are lots of us making 5e stuff you can buy from if you don’t like WotC. You’re gonna get called out on that. Particularly when it benefits you financially.
mamba
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it wasn’t about what you find more useful, it was about the predictions. You said he must be from the future to know this (rather than expect / assume, which is what Sly actually did…).
So, are you expecting any of the things he predicted to not be in the MM to instead be included? If not, why even bring this up?
mamba
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if you applied this level of scrutiny to WotC, you would hate their guts, instead you write that they did nothing whatsoever to even offend you in the slightest…
Mod note:
The insults are not acceptable.
You are done in this discussion. Find a topic that doesn't lead you to treat people so poorly, please.
Concerning blurgate I didn't know about the issue when it came up but I'm sorry you got caught up in the backlash caused by someone else completely. Someone at wizards screwed up and overreacted and I understand why you would be upset about it after all you did nothing wrong. Unfortunately to err is human and in a company the size of hasbro there's a lot of chances for people to err. The company is far from perfect because people are far from perfect but in the end they seem to come around to do the right thing which is why I push back against some of these things. I can acknowledge they do dumb stuff now and then while still liking the books they publish.
Meanwhile I buy a fair amount of official DnD stuff but I also buy a fair amount of third party stuff and see no real conflict of interest with promoting other products. It's all DnD to me. Absolutely no one should be shocked that you occasionally want to sell your products or promote other material since you are quite clear when you do it.
Mod Note:
Hey.
Don't make it personal. Making it personal generally does not get people to suddenly see you are correct - it gets them to dig in even deeper.
Making it personal also tends to slide into insult - and someone else just got removed from the thread for that. Maybe don't follow them off the cliff, hm?
Iosue
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Hey, Mike, I have no problem with you or your content, but I did want point out that that is an actual treasure recommendation. “Any” is a specific treasure preference defined in the DMG as a roll on the Random Horde Table. For a CR 2 monster, that’s 2d4 x 100 GP and 1d4-1 magic items.
Other preferences include Individual (roll on the Random Individual Treasure Table), and the Treasure Themes of Arcana, Armaments, Implements, and Relics. In the case of a listed Treasure Theme, a roll is made on the Random Horde Table, and any magic items found are rolled or selected from the appropriate Theme’s table.
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