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MtG was a factor, but setting bloat and poor business decisions were bigger factors

The were off when it was first put out.

Not just that, action figures of the movies characters, playsets, all sorts of merchandising outside the normal realm of TTRPGs but right in the center of Hasbro's core competencies. A blockbuster movie's toy line alone could outdo revenue and profits from D&D gaming products for the year all by...

I have moved on to 3D printing all of my minis because cheap and high quality at the same time is super awesome. While perusing the capabilities of the API for foundry I stumbled upon the capability of doing 3D tabletop depictions there. This could be a new place for the 3D printer file minis to...

That was the way I perceived things.

I think the real deal here is whether this will help monetize D&D more or not. If it does really well at the box office, it opens up merchandise lines well outside of the standard TTRPG fare and can increase the monetization majorly.

This trailer alone is superior in every way to the last two D&D movies.

There is no character generator, but there is a logical storage location in the campaign tree, I just copy and paste the characters in as an article in the Players portion of the campaign tree.

I have found World anvil is a superior campaign manager to DDB with the benefit of it not claiming ownership of everything you place there and it works with Foundry, so at least already have an alternative.

I tied every comment back to OGL 1.0a and made sure to stress how they have insured this goes to court and will be argued before a jury.

I think I don't care what you think.

Forums are poor places for extended explanations. Suffice it to say, there is far much more at work here than Chris Cao. This is easily evidenced by the fact that he was unaware of the D&D Beyond acquisition until it actually happened. Chris Cao is a small minor piece on the chess board of...

Because he is a symptom of the issue, not the actual disease.

Firing Chris Cao is tanamount to sticking a band-aid on a severed limb.

I must admit as an aside, a someone who played 4E once and moved to Pathfinder, 4E was probably the most balanced TTRPG I ever played.

You really haven't been around for the complete history of TTRPGs, have you? They say this EVERY time a new version is announced.

saying ti would be backwards compatible was a PR move. Announce a new version and everybody stops buying the current version. this was to sotop so much sales bleeding, nothing more. There will be conversion guides and nothing more.

And software titles with massive IP behind them have even higher expectations than most, so when they crash and burn it is usually epic (c.f. Marvel's Avengers).

In corporate speak, failure is not meeting revenue and profit expectatons. to an outsider, D&Done could look like a massive success and still be considered a massive failure due to the failure to meet the expectations. If the movie and the series both fail to be profitable, that alone could...

Maybe, it depends on where people decide to go. The foundry revenue stream is a one shot deal. They may get more from refugees that move to Pathfinder, it's hard to say. Since many people playing 5E on Foundry already paid, they may move over to Pathfinder as it is supported by the VTT tool they...