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Well I’d say maybe don’t try to tell grownups how to spend their own money. It’s likely to be extremely unpersuasive and seems like a bad look for a hobby forum. Anyway, I’m not a mod so I guess keep attacking until/unless someone tells you to stop.

Do the people who spend thousands on gaming tables, Wyrmwood stuff, Dwarven Forge, Beadle & Grim whatever they are, fancy dice, $500 minis and all the rest of it also get this kind of judgy BS? Ugh.

Read the fake slide, dude. That’s what I was responding to.

Okay, including all content for the $30/month is frankly more than I was expecting. Granted, I’d like to see the content improve.

I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but the new monster stat blocks seem like they’d be a lot easier for software to run than the “old” ones did.

I pay ~$200/year on average for VTT and a couple hardcovers. Add the equivalent of Paizo-era Dungeon and Dragon monthly and I could probably find $30/month in value. But I see no reason to think their strategy won’t be to squeeze me (and my players) just like they tried to squeeze 3PPs...

I note the author of that paper is the chief executive of an academic nonprofit. [emoji6]

Lying, deceiving, breaking a twenty year old contract, bullying competitors, and generally pursuing a business strategy that sucks for their customers.

You accused the company of “gaslighting,” which is a psychological tactic of abusers to make their victims question their own memory and perception of reality in order to manipulate them and perpetuate the abuse.

I couldn’t care less what their PR shop says or whether they follow The Template. “They” are a corporation. I care what they do. They can announce 1.0b with the word “irrevocable” added in a single, brief sentence.

I might be trying to rationalize something that we’ll eventually learn was non-rational, but I believe Wizards’ motivations were more oriented toward the future than the present. We don’t know what the future holds, but if Wizards thinks D&D can be a $1B business, that could attract players much...

15% was the reported “sweetheart deal.” The royalties are gone per the Friday statement. Of course, that doesn’t mean much if the license is revocable.

It doesn't. You're right. Everyone who likes those features has a wrong opinion.

No one "needs" it. No one needs minis or battle mats. The game can be played purely "theater of the mind." It can be played by postal mail. Lots of people (including me and my group) like it, which is why VTTs have been successful and the space is a significant opportunity for Wizards. I...

Dude, they can imagine it just as easily as they can when I draw a little square with my Sharpie. WTF.

Roll20 has doors and windows now!

Orcs together strong?

I don't know if you're tying yourself into knots on the "trust" thing, or if I'm just failing at reading comprehension. The "value" of the OGL was in the contractual rights conferred by the legal document. That has been "devalued" by Wizards' efforts to revoke it. If, tomorrow, Wizards releases...

Everyone's going to draw their own line in the sand. I think mine's pretty reasonable: Leave all products already published under 1.0a alone Make OGL 2 explicitly irrevocable Add the morals and blockchain clauses if you have to I think that's pretty generous--a lot of people, publishers and...

How does 3D maps and tokens instead of 2D maps and tokens turn it into a video game?