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The thing is that Disney is doing great by any objective measure you might choose to use except the ones their shareholders seem to care about, and to them Disney was doing so poorly they had to oust the CEO and bring back the old guy. The world is a very stupid place.

That's good to hear. Something about Twitter tends to bring out the worst in folks in general - maybe it's the short form that means you have to cut nuance, or maybe it's something else. If he has been expecting Wizards to pull a rug out from everyone somehow and had been planning for it that's...

I know right? This was something that I put in my survey response to them about their VTT policy. They severely underestimate the power of the D&D brand and the desire of people to want to use "officially" branded products. It's a thing that third party publishers and folks who want to use 3pp...

Somebody needs to check on Coville and make sure he's okay. I'm dead serious about this - I don't know him personally but if I saw that on a friend's feed and I knew they were looking at their own life plans being disrupted by events the way his have, I would definitely check on them. But he...

I think Reynard is arguing the opposite, that there should be a tie-in movie gaming product to promote the game not have the game promote the movie. As in get that audience who liked the movie to come check out the game by having a boxed set where the artwork is all movie stills and the...

I would love to see Keith Baker do his own thing with this rather than making it a part of Eberron. I love fantasy western settings - I have since at least the Savage Coast stuff started appearing in Dragon Magazine for Mystara. I'd love to see what he does with the idea.

That last bullet is so key. Even if lawyers can debate over the first two, it's so obvious that they stepped on a third rail that they didn't even realize was there. I was realizing the other day that the OGL has been around for 23 years. Which means there were people playing the game now who...

Have you checked out Owl Hoot Trail? I like it. Fantasy, not alternate history. https://pelgranepress.com/2013/07/30/owl-hoot-trail/

Yeah - there are way too many examples of present day Wizards of the Coast being bad about contracts for me to really trust them. I wish that they wouldn't have started making these noises, but I am glad that the gaming world is reacting rapidly to it and coming up with alternative open...

I don't know. One the one hand I see what you're saying. They've done Stranger Things and Rick and Morty tie-ins, both of which were intended to drive more people to check out D&D, so why not a D&D tie-in? On the other hand, everything they publish already has the name of the movie on it in a...

In all honesty I could actually see Hasbro farming out dice to another company at least. If someone wanted to pay them to put the movie logo on dice? Sounds exactly like the kind of thing they'd be up for. An actual boxed set would be tougher to see someone else wanting or being able to do. It...

I will say - I'm not sure about that "existing products are safe" rule. How legally binding is that? It feels way too handwavy and dependent on Wizards being a good actor - like could you depend on it in 6 years when the executive team has overturned twice?

It's more like over $20k in today's US dollars since things have slightly more than doubled since 1991. But I suspect it's more that the market for Star Wars action figures wasn't large enough in 1991 to justify the expenditure. Not that the Star Wars market had entirely dried up, but it was...

It's very retro. Feels much more like an 80s or 90s sitcom than a present day one. And I don't think it's just because they did a good job of reproducing the sets from the original show. It's more about the staging and the jokes. My kid enjoyed it, which is high approval as far as I'm...

Everyone looks at Apple's walled garden and wants to make their own. But it's kind of like Marvel movies. Lots of folks want to make one, but that doesn't mean they can actually make it work. (In actuality I don't think that Hasbro has the corporate stamina to make a walled garden for D&D...

Already at the drafting an announcement stage? The lawyer must have had real good news!

They do - it's called "Pathfinder Infinite". Covers Starfinder too. https://www.pathfinderinfinite.com/

The CC-BY stuff is the only stuff that is actually being "open licensed". And that's good, though I would argue that if Wizards is actually concerned about people using their name in vain they should release it under CC0 and not require that everyone put their name on the books they sell since...

I do wonder what the contract looks like between Paramount and Hasbro. And all of the other folks with contracts. It's possible Paramount and others get a cut of the movie tie in merch and Hasbro doesn't want to share, thinking that the movie promoting the brand itself would be good enough for...

Sure, I didn't mean that. I meant more that you think it's actually a strategy that they could be using rather than a "no, silly person, that's not how the law works" which is what often happens when lawyers engage with randos ideas on the internet. :) I mean, there's always the chance that...