Recent content by Morrus

This is entirely inappropriate. Please refrain from namecalling when posting on these forums.

On the shelf in my office.

You got it backwards. The cartoons were ads for the toys. The toys were the endgame, not the cartoons.

Well, these are pre-existing products and WotC does all the work to bring them over to DDB. There's no freelancers involved.

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They do. For example, we have Level Up Gateway. I'm sure other games have their own, or they're on Demiplane. I imagine you'll find in a few years that most games have this functionality, whether in-house or on a hosted platform.

I think that’s a reductive and fundamentally uncharitable misunderstanding of what I’ve been saying. But never mind; it’s not worth fighting about.

I don’t know what that means?

As a publisher I’m pretty uncomfortable with a narrative where another company decides whether my stuff is good or not. I’d be wary about normalising that sort of stance.

That’s clearly a joke playing on his name.

If DDB had 90% of the 3PP market, that would kill anybody not on the platform. WotC would effectively control the market. Remember, back in the 4E days it was near impossible to sell player options as a third party producer because the first thing potential customers would ask was if it was on...

Indeed. The market leader also having a gatekeeping power over the broader industry would be an issue. That said, our conversation here is focused on 3PP D&D stuff. The broader industry includes a lot of games which aren’t impacted by this. I have said many times that WotC didn’t need to...

Yeah we’ve discussed this before. I definitely agree there’s an inherent problem for the industry if the biggest game and the biggest sales outlet are owned by the same company, especially as the market moves more and more towards online models. The latter (biggest outlet) isn’t—currently— true...