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Actually, clicking around the links about his past ventures, I wouldn't necessarily say he got lucky with those either. ;) Only one lasted more than a couple years apparently only through near-annual visits of the VC train.

Not to detract from the far more serious accusations, but I did laugh out loud a bit at the "innovation" of getting into NFTs in 2024. Thinking that your future is excitedly hopping on a bubble that already burst a year or two ago should be disqualifying for any CEO! :ROFLMAO:

Precisely. Just echoing and elaborating… simply going from full time employment in your dream industry to suddenly unemployed can be traumatic as well. Furthermore, I know many in the generations younger than this 50 year old grognard recognize a wider range of circumstances as harm and trauma...

This has already been brought up multiple times in this thread. Yes, it is relevant to note but as already been mentioned, there are other reasons for investing including diversifying a portfolio. So, it is noteworthy, but not some "gotcha" proving their stated technology policy is necessarily...

Honestly, please feel free to belabor this point! As someone who has regularly taught and studied business ethics, publicly divulging what was included in an employee's letter of resignation but then stating that former employees shouldn't post any details because that would be too "one-sided"...

Honestly, even a Saltmarsh/Yawning Portal pretty straight port to 5e would be nice. I've seen some decent fan updates when I've thought about running it, but it'd still be nice to get the recognition and full 5e support it deserves.

That is definitely a newer trend in OGL publishing, and not the case all along. The most common by far for the first 10-15 years of OGL used to be "no proper nouns, characters, stories, etc." but mechanics being open. In recent years and generally with 5e OGL publishers specifically, however...

Also keep in mind that their long vs short campaigns can also be divided up by fantasy vs non-fantasy, or even "Setting with 8 years of history and storylines" vs "Barely developed setting." There are more variables involved than just game system. In my experience, as much as CR fans get into...

Not to mention that "the core rulebooks of a new game will be the best selling books of that game" is hardly something to be considered "insightful." That is super-basic RPG Business 101. I'm pretty sure MCDM is well aware of that and planning accordingly.

And I'm pretty sure WotC have announced, more than once, that their rule updates will be released under (I think both?) OGL and CC soon after the new books are published. So even looking at the logical structure of Ben's essay, it is "Here's all of this doom and gloom for the future but it can...

Exactly. I'd have to double check my math, but there's a chance I've made a million dollars to date, but that sure as heck doesn't make me a millionaire, just old. ;) That being said, though, 5e has outsold and had massive, sustained growth for longer than any previous edition, so whatever the...

Not to mention how it must feel for the artist if they see the dozens and dozens of messages nitpicking every detail of their artwork to point out "No human would mess that up!" I'm sure that's gotta do wonders for someone's confidence. There's even been that in this thread concerning other...

Probably took longer to set up and record that video than it took Christian to contact the artist and get a reply. I really loathe those kinds of YouTubers. Such a willing part of the new wave of misinformation & disinformation adding to what I've seen accurately called the en(poop)ification of...

I'm not convinced that would necessarily wash out eventually, especially since WotC could easily prevent that from happening any time they choose to. Yes, I have extremely little faith that they would do that, but considering it lasted almost half of D&D's lifetime without an issue (and the only...

Exactly. The sheer volume of OGC released by 3pp over the past two decades with the thought that it would be forever open for future writers to use is staggering. That is what angered me the most with the OGL fiasco - that it didn't attempt to just control WotC's own IP, but it would have cut...

Art Director Bree Heiss has been laid off, too. (looks like the Facebook link didn't embed properly, but it was announced there)

Thanks! As much as we try, especially with something this big, tpyos will sneak in. As much as many people would like a POD version sooner rather than later, this is one of the reasons why it's handy to wait. So far I don't think there's been anything too egregious or game mechanic altering that...

Like Fro said, we did not work directly with WotC on this. Waaaay back when Jim Butler ran the Official Setting Fan Site program for WotC, Planewalker got early access to a couple books, but that was 20 years ago. I haven't had direct contact like that with WotC since back then. So far I've...

I was just typing a reply and got ninja'ed. However, you missed the Exiled Modron. It's entry doesn't start at the top of a page column.

Yes, it is wildly dysfunctional. But, sorry, it is also really likely and the norm for large corporations and having worked in multiple businesses of different sizes, am zero percent surprised by this. It's so common, it's practically a cliche that as corporations become successful and grow...