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Imagine finishing an epic campaign to have the plot twist that the BBEGs are some ex-Microsoft, soul-less executives and a team of lawyers who are suing you in real life for daring to play the game you want to instead of the way they want you to.

Do you think anyone who ruined the profitability of Star Wars, Star Trek, Dr. Who, or Marvel Phase 4 had GOOD rationale's for doing so? Corporations are full of people, and lots of people are either stupid or brainwashed into cult-like behavior that isn't in their best interest. Happens every day.

New article on Gizmodo about the topic too: Dungeons & Dragons’ New License Tightens Its Grip on Competition

Yes, yes, I remember, but we're not really talking about what Ryan Dancey and Peter Adkison wanted, we're talking with what the current management of WOTC thinks about it. After they struggled through the dominance of the OSR and Pathfinder competing head to head with 4e, I can imagine that...

What Ryan Dancey likely did NOT anticipate was where we are now where multiple people are using the OGL to create D&D clones that people can buy and play without any reference to D&D itself as currently in print, however. Which is exactly why the OSRIC guy, who's name slips my mind, had to deal...

Regardless of whether he's American or not, he's absolutely right. There are plenty of bad judgements in the US court industry (and I use that label somewhat deliberately) and plenty of judges have admitted outright that they don't even look at precedent, etc. Never put faith in a big...

That's an ironic observation, given the actual history of the pronunciation divide.

Not to people that live there.

Nothing. To quote Mr Darcy, "My good opinion, once lost, is lost forever." 6e (I refuse to dignify the obviously disingenuous notion that OneD&D isn't a new edition by calling it that) is clearly heading in a different direction than I have any interest in, but I've already bailed on D&D twice...

You're probably on to something (I am a trained, although not practicing economist. That's what one of my degrees is in, anyway. Not that that makes my opinion any more relevant here than yours.) Streaming services are absolutely NOT doing well. If you were paying attention to the news coming...

This feels like a damage control article, where she refuses to answer any straight questions with anything other than corporate non-answers, and a continued focus on treating D&D and Magic players like Xbox consumers. It's clear GeekWire was trying to pin her down on things that have caused a...

I don't want anything to replace race.

Yes. Most gamers I've interacted with have strongly enough defined tastes, that they will tend to force every game into the same playstyle, regardless of mechanics. This mostly works, but when a system is too firmly designed to facilitate a different playstyle, they'll ignore or houserule the...

Well... I don't know what to say. It doesn't. Maybe don't snip sentence fragments out of context, and they'll make more sense to you? I don't know how to make it more clear. You can run all games with the same style while still preferring games that make it easier to do so. In fact, it seems...

How do you answer a question on how to get people back to the dungeon if you don't care about people who don't want to do dungeons? It's a question that's attempting to NOT be answered, and is itself irrelevant.

Exactly my point. Given that "going back to the dungeon" is something that people say over and over again, with each new edition if not more frequently, it's obvious that there is a significant plurality that doesn't really like dungeon-delving. Understanding why not is key to answering the...

I'm accepting for the sake of argument Questing Beast's assertion there. Whether or not his discord poll is really evidence of reality is a question that I'm not asking for now.

Ryan Dancey did say it too. As did, if I remember correctly, Sean K. Reynolds. It's not just one half-remembered quote; it was a real narrative coming out of some of the older designers who were around at the time, and their insight was remarkably consistent across all of them.

Which is mitigated by the fact that everyone continues to use them suggesting that they are, in fact, pretty useful to a lot of people. Just observational. I'm not proposing anything by the observation except that it DID in fact happen like that. Everyone was talking about Gen Y in the...

Do you consider Ryan Dancy reliable? I can't remember where I read it—it's been the better part of ten years now, but yeah.