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I guess we're just paying attention to different things surrounding OneD&D.

And yet there are rumors and leaks about them being anti open license...

What? Of course there's no evidence. This isn't a criminal trial. It's just someone observing and thinking about the actual people responsible for making decisions about D&D's business, rather than thinking in terms of "WotC" as if it were some sort of self-aware, autonomous corporate entity...

I mean, it's so blindingly obvious that history is repeating itself. WotC's going to publish 6e, it will cause a schism in the community, and a new Paizo will bleed WotC's market share with some 5e OGL product. Do you think any of the D&D executives would understand that sentence without it...

All of the executives in charge of D&D are tech company MBA types or video game producers. None of them have any experience in the book publishing industry, let alone with D&D or the TRPG industry. They are wholly ignorant about game design and have little interest in it. Every contributor to...

It's gonna be wild in a few years when people figure out that WotC's being run today the way that Elon's running Twitter.

Obviously. It's just what I've observed.

A former TTRPG designer who hadn't published any TTRPG products in decades found himself in charge of the most powerful and storied brand in the TTRPG hobby, and launched the process for a new edition of this game that would surely have had his name on it (ensuring some small legacy in this...

I agree. But all they know how to do is make books. I also agree, both on the strategy and the speculation. The new person setting the revenue targets for D&D is a former e-commerce tech executive with an MBA, not someone who treasures his 1e Unearthed Arcana with notes scribbled in the...

Throwing money at a problem isn't the same thing as investing.

If you want to take WotC's press releases at face value, that's fine by me. I try to focus more on the products they're producing.

That's what I'd say, too, if my sales numbers were down and someone was asking me to explain myself. It's the same sort of tactic that gives us the "Funded in twenty minutes!" headlines on Kickstarter campaigns. You don't think that the D&D design team is interested in selling to its existing...

If your sales have been consistently good, or have declined by an acceptable amount, you don't put additional stress on the design team to make more books. They're hitting their revenue targets, they know what they're doing, don't mess with success. But if your sales haven't been good and you're...

That's a sign of weakness, not strength.

Exactly right and why I recommend the Remix of Dragon Heist. The Remix focuses on making Heist easy and fun for the DM. It's all DM-facing fixes. Your players won't know or care what's been done to make Heist fun. They'll just experience the results.

Run Dragon Heist, but do it using The Alexandrian's Remix of the book.

Seconded. It's more important that D&D becomes easier teach for new DMs than for new players.

And yet...

Who else, indeed? That's my point.

And I agree with your claim. The new hires have been largely diverse.