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Sadly, I can see her gender being a factor for being scapegoated :( Cox can easily claim, "Look at WotC's sales when I was in charge and Hasbro's gains before I hired her." Darkest timeline ever.

I'm leaning to she was under fire and found a different gig. Just my 2 cents. Her tenures at Amazon & Microsoft were more "successful" (read their corporate tyranny was better swallowed). I don't wish her or Cox misfortune I just wish they'd stop messing with things that were working. WotC was...

“She helped implement Cocks’ Blueprint 2.0 strategy, which narrowed Hasbro’s focus on licensing the company’s most profitable brands and emphasizing digital products as much as possible….That blueprint has not materialized in the way Cocks wanted. The company faces an extremely tough 2023 and...

Respectfully, I thought Zweihander started as a retroclone and at some point I feel like Daniel didn't want us to remember that. I'd feel the same way if Old School Essential's Gavin Norman decided that his work has no connection to B/X DnD. I mean, the name Zweihander was chosen as a connection...

I'm 51 and have been playing since the early '90s so there are certain things in rules I know won't work for me. I'm not a fan of FATE, Powered by the Apocalypse, or Forged in the Dark games. I'm sure it's my own issue and I avoid them. I usually walk away from a game if it doesn't have Hit...

Nerf the Rogue. Its too darn good.

Maybe there is some timeline where Larian got the opportunity and had the money? Maybe it could have been cool.

What we have to remember is that its not just about profit its about exponential profit every quarter and the is hard to do with DnD. 4E didn't fail it simply didn't succeed to their projections as they thought they could somehow experience the same profit from it as Magic. They don't understand...

At the moment, Hasbro is licensing many of their toy brands to numerous other toymakers. Additionally, the acquired eOne as a studio to make their own films and then sold it just as DnD & Transformers Rise of Beasts released. I think the bugbear for them with DnD is two-fold: 1) DMs who are 20%...

Do you have a link to the Discord?

Have they said if they are going to use the WFRP system or the Soulbound system which the Laundry will also use?

My enthusiasm has soured on Tales of the Valiant based on what I've seen of it so far. I was hoping for a bit more divergent design. However, Level Up has replaced it for me and I'm a big fan of Shadow of the Weird Wizard.

The author misses that many fans of 5E aren't even aware of the OGL crisis and didn't PF2 get rid of attributes in its first printing? On top of that is that there is a ton of money in the OSR which has benefitted from WotC's shenanigans. The OGL ensures that you can support any version of DnD...

Meanwhile, Local Game Stores, like mine are now not only competing against Amazon but also against WotC. Their purchase of DnD Beyond, mirrors how they have taken similar stands with toys using HasbroPulse & Arena for Magic: the Gathering. A key thing to know though is that HasbroPulse and Arena...

I think you are being intentionally obtuse and argumentative. Do you happen to work for Hasbro?

Hasbro gave a very small team the task of a do or die edition of 5E. Because they weren't very important they were able to look at DnD's history, the OSR (which makes a LOT of money), and then playtest it publicly. Once it hit really big Hasbro took notice. It hit big because the people who made...

I hadn't realized 4E's development had been started that soon. I wonder how much of it intersected with Book of 9 Swords & Star Wars Saga Edition

That is a really good question. I don't think Hasbro cared at that point. They bought WotC for the Pokémon TCG and the fact that Magic came with it was icing on the cake. It also let them find a home for Avalon Hill. Adkinson was still in charge when the decision to develop 3.5 was made. 4E...

I'm not sure I give credit to Hasbro for 3.5 though. Monte Cook has said that as soon as 3E was out the door they started working on it. Just my 2 cents.

There was a fight within the board late last year or early this year where an "activist group" tried to force WotC to spin off from Hasbro but it died. I love DnD but if we could raise the billions needed to buy WotC we'd be better paying off providing human rights to people who need it. My...