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I don’t think that chance is that high, but yes. Hasbro needs me. I don’t need Hasbro.

No we won’t. We’ll get the OGL 1.0a or nothing. What the terms of whatever crap Hasbro puts out are don’t matter, as it’s an irrelevant document.

Ah, there we go. Hadn’t looked at the numbers for a while it seems. Still, Avatar comes out on top.

No @FormerLurker, “they” meant “FormerLurker”. I have no clue what your gender is, so you get they as a pronoun. Why does @FormerLurker care? They don’t think boycotting Hasbro is going to make any difference, but they also seem desperate for us not to it.

Nobody gets to do that under the OGL 1.0a. Proclaiming “compatible with Dungeons & Dragons” was explicitly forbidden. This is therefore a non issue. We went through this with Book of Erotic Fantasy and we have had dozens of hard R or NC-17 or XXX books released under the OGL since. None of them...

Pretty much everything @FormerLurker is writing is wrong, and it’s just geared to get people to stop pressuring WotC. The only reason they would care about that is if the pressure was actually doing something, otherwise why bother trying to talk people out of it if it isn’t going to work?

The biggest tabletop rpg Kickstarter, by the way, was for Avatar Legends, the roleplaying game, not for a D&D product. The only 1 million dollar plus D&D Kickstarter was to fund a book AND Matt Colville twitch streaming his campaign. Edit: a few more million dollar rpg kickstarters have appeared...

All of this is wrong. There are freelancers right now producing stuff for other game systems than D&D. They're even making money off it. There's also nothing saying that your sales would be cut 3/4ths just because D&D's audience is, that's assuming that people buying specific third party titles...

Unless you have actual numbers though, you don’t know. It could be 2 million. It could be 1 million. It could be 500 000 or 100 000 (or it could be that 5 million number). We don’t know. What we do know is a lot of D&D Beyond accounts will be inactive, like mine was. Either from former players...

Yes. That’s what needs to happen now. Firstly because that’s how responses work and why you have to be quick. “Good enough” last week is “hot garbage” today. That’s how you get revolutions in countries too. The demands never start there, but terrible responses and an inability to get out in...

Where are you getting those numbers? The numbers I see is D&D Beyond has over 10 million accounts. For 50,000 to be less than a percentage point, over 5 million accounts would need to be subscribed. I haven’t been able to find any info on how many subscribers Beyond has, but I highly doubt it’s...

50,000 subscribers is a lot. D&D Beyond has a bit over 10 million user accounts. How large a percentage of those do you think have subscriptions? For 50,000 to be only one percentage point, there would have to be 5 million subscribers. How many free apps that also have a subscription tier do you...

I filled it out, mostly focused on the only thing they can do to make me happy is OGL 1.0b which is 1.0a but with the words “irrevocable” and “no ability to deauthorize” added and put under a non-profit so Hasbro has no even imagined control over it in the future. The problem there is … they...

This is an interview with Ryan Dancey from the year 2000, in charge of D&D at the time, outlining the thought process that led to the OGL. Basically, they figured out that it will mean a lot more profits to keep all the third party people in the tent, making stuff for the same rules system, the...

And you were wrong then too. Because the OGL doesn’t allow you to use any brand identity. You can’t put “Dungeons & Dragons” on the cover, you can’t use their imagery etc. So no, you are entirely incorrect. There was no ability to use their brand, that’s why no product released under the OGL has...

No, because no one in the hobby associated things they hated that were released under the OGL with WotC. Because nothing released under the OGL is allowed to use trademarks or trade dress or anything like that, the risk of anything released under the OGL being associated with D&D by people who...

Then we don’t buy anything from Hasbro. They need us as customers in order to get revenue to make a profit. We do not need them. We have all the power.

They’re a company, they can cease to exist if they want to alienate their customers. Hopefully they do.

Book of Erotic Fantasy, Sisters of Rapture, The book of Passion, 5e Guide to Sex, the Lover's handbook, Rolling for Seduction, Erotic Arcana etc. There are a bunch of OGL sex books. There’s also Lamentations of the Flame Princess and the incredibly gory art therein, and tons of other examples...

It really seems these people would rather keep digging than admit they started talking naughty word about something they have absolutely no clue about and were wrong.