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Which means that we have to go as far as a person not following the rules of the OGL and SRDs at all to reach the point of merely a C&D letter and not even a lawsuit filing. So the possibility of someone following the rules of the OGL / CC / and the various past SRDs for some standard product...

What exactly are people intending on making that they think their product is more likely to get them sued by WotC that none of the other thousands of products that have been released since 2000 and the initial OGL/SRD getting released? I mean heck... if WotC didn't throw up cease-and-desists...

The US tariff situation might be a big roadblock for Hasbro solvency right now and perhaps they're taking steps to set themselves up to try and weather the storm?

@mearls mentioned in the other thread that he thought there was an After-55 early retirement option being offered by WotC (which might explain CP's exit), and while I do not know how old Chris Cao is... his image icon does give the impression he could be of age to also take WotC up on their...

I just saw on my Twitter (X) timeline that former WotC D&D employee Greg Bilsland has posted that he is returning to WotC as Executive Producer of Dungeons & Dragons. https://x.com/gregbilsland/status/1909242876342800727 No idea if any other official announcement has been made.

Adding on to your point... there's also no reason not to think that if Chris decided to more fully flesh out Iomandra and write it as a full campaign setting that WotC wouldn't go ahead and partner with him and publish it. They did the same thing with Acq Inc. after all I believe. I don't...

Well, this is what Monte Cook I believe talked about when he stepped away from the early stages of 5E design. My own guessimation is that because there is no way to really determine what an employee would come up with "off-hours" versus when they were on the clock... creative endeavor companies...

True... but I do wonder if the same policy in at place at WotC where anything made by a person while employed there is technically owned by WotC (so Chris probably couldn't)? That was the thing that caused Monte Cook to quickly WotC again after coming onto 5E's design team for a little bit at...

[raucous laughter] Very witty Wilde! Very, very witty! (AUTHOR'S NOTE: If you are not familiar with Monty Python, please ignore this post.)

I do like this direction for House Vol, as "humanoid interaction" is definitely a missing facet to the dragonmarked houses in terms of the businesses they cover. If you look at all 12 Houses and what they control in terms of business potential, there isn't one whose Mark aids in exactly those...

Even if the system is Paranoia? That sounds like a quick way to lose a couple clones. ;)

No, not someone... ME. I choose to not give a crap about what any company does beyond what they produce that I wish to purchase. If I see something I wish to buy, I will buy it. If I do not wish to buy it, I won't. If you prefer to spend your time checking out the bona fides of every company...

It's more efficient than waiting for someone else to make what you want for you. ;)

I will go to my grave thinking that 'Moistened Bink' is the greatest non-Star Wars Star Wars character name ever created. :D

Absolutely. A former King's lost sword is way more important regardless of what the mechanical bonuses are on it. If I get that sword, then my character has a potential "in" with the royal family down the line. That's way more important to the campaign than a +1 attack and damage bonus.

I would find more interest in the story surrounding the magical weapon. Whose weapon originally was it? Who are the people who gave me the rumor that it was there? What is the location it is found and what is its history? What might be defending the weapon? Basically what @J-H said in their...

And that's a perfectly acceptable way of choosing to live your life. I choose to live my life differently. I choose to not divide the things I use in my life between those that are acceptable to come from crappy companies because they are "necessities", and things that are not acceptable to...

Of course not. But that's no different than me who doesn't care about a company's crappy behavior. Everyone can decide for themselves. But the only reason we've been on this tangent in the first place is because someone questioned me about it and then a new person keeps asking or commenting...

I would imagine @ezo just doesn't want to bother with it. Rightly OR wrongly. But that doesn't even matter because they can choose to not use 3PP AND still be saddened that WotC isn't going to produce product they want. But if they've accepted that reality... that's pretty much all that needs...

It's just ego. People don't like having to acknowledge they are not the one being catered to.