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Really long survey. Been playing since 1981 and my first purchase was Holmes Basic boxed set. Have not played any TSR/WoTC D&D recently. Traveller, Hyperborea and Xall of Cthulhu.

There are a few Wizards people at GaryCon this year (as is usual).

I have not bought the paper version nor the D&D Beyond version of the latest book. I did buy the fantasy grounds version to make sure I had it if they lost access from their license not being renewed. After listening to answers in this, I have not changed my mind. I appreciate the PR as I think...

I am backing Sinless and there is a draft rulebook available to check out which is a good indication that the system is advanced enough to reduce the chance that deliveries will be massively delayed. So far it looks good.

I find it amusing that one of the internal villains earlier in the news cycle is one of the few non-white executives. Much of the ire directed at him was around tone and style which is very often just side for “they are not like us”. However, they are not the beloved D&D developer team, so...

NuTSR is neither a threat to WoTC nor is it OGL related. It keeps being brought up as a reason or defense for their actions and it simply is not.

SEC, not the FTC. Securities Exchange Comission. And the safe harbor for forward looking statements is pretty protective if you are not knowingly lying. Now, you can get sued, but lawsuits are common enough for simply the world changed and my guess was wrong. I do tend to make sure to say...

More often than not, calendar year and fiscal year are the same for companies. But they do not have to be. Many retailers end at Jan 31. Hasbro seems to be 4/4/5.

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I think that the focus in the morality clause and the double down on it points to the creative team. I base this on many of their long term social media postings. I also think the $750K start of royalties and the $50K reporting threshold is thinking so small that it comes from people thinking...

I am amazed they allow it at all since they have licensed VTT partners. The fact that the have not licensed Foundry points to me as a reason to believe they want to further restrict access in the future.

I can always cut and paste. I routinely enter data into Fantasy Grounds and I have been buying D&D Beyond books since it first started (as of now they lost my paper and D&D Beyond Heist books purchase but I will buy on FG to future proof in case the license is not renewed next year).

I also remain convinced that the interviews are part of the process to protect their most important asset - the Movie. We are all celebrating our victory and in some ways I think the PR campaign looks more like a Hollywood crisis expert was brought in.

One of the major VTT (Foundry) does not have a license with them but there are tools to scrape all the materials from D&D Beyond. Fantasy Grounds has a license but in 4th edition there was a tool to scape the books from the digital system then. I use Fantasy Grounds and Smiteworks (their...

Computer game publishing is not D&D. D&D is book publishing. All of the 3rd party companies they were talking to are also book publishers. There are some similarities between the two, but sometimes I think that is where WoTC is tripping up because they have recently hired a bunch of computer...

The profit and revenue mainly comes from MtG. Top end estimate is that D&D made $150M of more than $1B of revenue and that is very recent. WoTC (and Hasbro) has been carried along by MyG for a while. D&D only recently started getting mentioned in earnings calls.

Kyle is not really from the publishing industry and D&D is tiny in Hasbro. So I have doubts that they have publishing centric lawyers and that he knows what is “usual”. I marked that down as a probable lie. Cannot be proven, of course. But rings false.

I am pretty used to draft documents saying draft or being watermarked draft. It is a sign to people you offer contracts to that you are open to suggestions. The theory that it is a draft until it is signed is not wrong, but that assumes everyone is on the same page. I get the sense that the...

I just googled those thinking they were racist / hate OGL adventures. 🤣🤣🤣

I recognize pretty much all of them. I have all of Frog God and Kobold Press 5e materials. Nord Games I have their books (their monster books are good if you want 20 variations of standard humanoids to vary the challenge). The rest I have a scattering of their stuff or at least know who they...