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The original AD&D Player's Handbook has a preface by Mike Carr specifically identifying D&D as being more popular with women (in comparision to war gaming I think is being made here) and Gygax himself says there are all sorts of different types of players. I would say that general cultural...

Quite typical answers by someone with media training. Stuck to his talking points and did not overextend himself. Answers were clear - to the people outraged by the OGL screw-up, we have enough new customers, you do not matter and we fixed that already, but said nicely and with the positive spin...

I run a 1e game (Hyperborea) with 6 players. From that group (counting me), 3 started with 0e, 1 with 1e, 1 with 2e, 1 with 3.5 and one with 5e. Everyone in that group plays in an alternating 5e game (I play instead of DM in that one). I run another 5e game, again with 6 players. I know of...

They did let go of VP and Directors.

I am also an “expert” and I am more worried about the debt levels and cash flows than any pure EPS number. Especially as a lot of costs have been capitalized recently (VTT) and cash was used to buy D&D Beyond. The previous acquisitions and forays into entertainment pressured their results quite...

It is terrible, the way people get rewarded in a neutral third party arrangement with a negotiated contract, isn't it?

In the case of Chris Cocks, he led WoTC through many, many boom years and increased staffing during that time. His boss, the CEO of Hasbro then, was the one running the rest of the company. He died unexpectedly and Cocks was promoted to the over all CEO role. Unfortunately, it was the former CEO...

Not really, but if that is your position I doubt I could convince your otherwise. For anyone not locked it, most of that pay is contingent on their future performance and can easily be zero. I assume they greatly missed targets this year and next year's proxy will tell a different story. The...

He does not know how to read the proxy statement for compensation (like many posting here). So not worthwhile to complain about the executive pay if you don't even understand it. The 2 glaring errors are to not realize the backwards looking nature of the bonuses and to conflate one time stock...

I don’t think they cut that deeply into the development team for D&D. Mike Mearls (who I think did a great job getting 5e into life) has not worked on the D&D RPG for ages. MtG sets and liaison with 3rd party computer games company is not development. Dan Dillon is pretty new to the team, it is...

Hasbro stock has moved into the 50’s from the 40’s before this announcement. The market itself is strong because of expectations of lower rates next year, but the stock move itself seems better than the market as a whole.

I have seen so much evidence here that people don’t understand why layoffs happen and how bigger companies work. I know how employees tend to be selected (smartest way is highest salary that does not have a big effect and also select lower rated employees and ones not working on a project about...

The more back office people are not followed on social media as well, so if 3 A/P clerks were let go, probably not covered here.

BTW - Chris Cocks is not getting $9M cash. Here is what the top people at Habro got from the last SEC filing:

If it all rolls up to D&D, it does not matter what team, less cost can be supported in D&D so ...

The budget for D&D gets smaller if there is a failure. I am willing to bet they used contractors for the failed products, but if there is less money to support the existing team, often someone unconnected takes the cost cutting bullet. Especially when big $$$ are being used for the VTT and the...

They are part of the D&D P&L. Not sure why you think that does not matter.

Accounting rules are why you need to take action before a quarter end in order to record it that quarter. I have had to suggest and implement layoffs a fair number of times in the past (senior finance person). We're all human, we prefer to not ruin holidays, but the company needs usually are the...

As much as a like the tactical choices as a DM of upcasting spells, not having to juggle spell slots while tracking everything else is a win for me.