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Hopefully there are no people in charge at WotC or Hasbro at that point.

No, they're not. No one could make a D&D NFT as it was, all the product identity is unavailable under the OGL. What's WotC going to do, stop someone from making an NFT of a picture of a random wizard? The only people ready to make D&D NFTs are Hasbro, and they can do it whatever the OGL says.

No. Because anything that WotC, or whoever puts a morality clause into an open license, wants to get rid of will mysteriously end up being whatever the morality license said was bad. The horrible example used by that Opening Arguments podcast of some terrible thing WotC should be allowed to stop...

Pretty sure those numbers are for total users, not subscribers. I had an account, but no subscription.

No, it is absolutely about true statements. Opening arguments lied. They made false statements. They said untrue things. They uttered falsehoods. The article also doesn't imply what you or Opening arguments says it does at all. Here's the full text of the entire paragraph about the length of the...

Not really. Anything digital you can store locally is more secure than a physical book. I have my game PDFs on my hard drive and backed up to dropbox and many of them sitting on my drivethru account. Ok, drivethru closes. Doesn't matter, I still have the files on dropbox and stored locally...

Buying your own bowling ball seems more equivalent to buying a PHB to me.

And may very well feel like they don't contribute much to the well-being of the organization by being chief executive.

It's not about me meaning well, it's about academic research finding that CEOs have almost no effect on company performance. See here for instance: A naughty word Job? A Global Study on the Value of CEOs I'm saying that those other jobs are jobs that need to be done and top executive isn't. edit...

The thing is that there is no "executive skill". CEO's have almost no impact on the businesses they supposedly run. You could probably put a hamster in the big chair and it would make no difference. Having someone who has some idea of what the business is doing should prevent many hare-brained...

No it doesn't. What does it misrepresent? Because the stuff the podcast says it does is simply not true. Codega's point about the OGL 1.1 being more restrictive on content is entirely true, the podcast just chose to decide that Codega meant something else by content so they could smear them.

There should never be an executive that doesn't understand the business. They don't provide value. Studies have been done on this, CEO's account for at most like a 2% variance in company value. Bringing in some exec from a completely different industry to run your company isn't going to get you...

Just the fact that they decided that the word "content" in Linda Codega's article meant something different than both they and WotC actually use it to mean is enough proof that this was either done in bad faith (they knew they were wrong and pushed it anyway because they wanted to smear Codega...

I mean, if you're right and they're not quite that dumb, then you are absolutely right that this won't hurt those newly joined players financially much if at all. I still think that just the experience of an edition change will induce some to abandon the game, especially when combined with bad...

Hasbro management don’t understand TTRPGs. So I don’t see them being able to gauge if a move is smart or stupid or suicidal. Yes, but I never really got into it. Had a DM who shared all the books, but I already owned them in paper and preferred to use a paper character sheet. I was the only one...

Not at all, because it is impossible for WotC to push an update that changes or removes my physical books. Not so with digital content. No it is not a retcon and yes it does. People using physical books only will have a far easier time just continuing with their physical books than those in...

It was not timely. WotC entirely failed to get in front of events. This escalated the whole thing. If WotC can’t respond faster than in a week, that’s on them, and that doesn’t cut it today. They also canceled streams where it was rumored this would be addressed, so where obviously slower than...

Which only applies to 5e stuff. Suddenly it’s new edition time and WotC are, as is obvious, complete morons so suddenly you need to upgrade to the new edition book to play. Sure, only one person needs to buy the new books, but that one person still has to do it. Only if they actually want to...

I’ve seen lots of things wipe gaming groups, and almost every time, some of the members didn’t come back, at least not for a time. There’s always other things to do, you have to really prioritize RPGs to play them, and that calculation can change in an instant when something changes, like a...

The part about RPGs taking a lot of time to organize is exactly why people fall out. I didn’t really play outside of one convention a year for five years, 2010-2014, with the preceding three years having a total of maybe six play sessions stretched across them. Because it was hard to organize...