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Sigh. Again with the judgement on folks who draw their lines differently than you choose to. Also, not what he said.

Well, if by "bad" you mean the company acts with a decent degree of incompetence . . . yeah! But I'm pretty happy with the D&D design team, their choices, and the products they release, which I think are overall pretty awesome and hold a high degree of quality. If the D&D books weren't as good...

Sure, yeah. And WotC's choices and mistakes have not crossed my personal threshold yet. It came close for me during the OGL crisis, and if WotC had not acted to correct for that, I probably would have stopped being their customer at that point. But they did fix the problem, which was initially...

Being an informed and ethical consumer, as you point out, is hard. Our capitalist and corporate society is complicated and there is a lot of not-good stuff going on in almost every industry. Not to mention the plague of misinformation on social media. I respect folks who strive to be informed...

I would agree that WotC/Hasbro is . . . ah . . . a less than a well-managed company. They've had several large screw-ups, and a host of smaller ones over the past few years. But with most of these mistakes, they have corrected for them. Yeah, they seem to keep making more, but they also work to...

We'll see, the situation in the US is volatile. But probably, the tariffs will be short term . . . hopefully . . . However, once prices go up, they rarely go back down again. :(

Again, we're arguing the meanings of words. That's always my favorite part of these threads. You've got the dictionary definition of "litigious" down, for sure. But for most folks, the word means "being sued". WotC has not sued anyone over this issue. That's why you're getting pushback on that...

My assumption is that the lawyerly folks at WotC (or their subcontracted firm) correctly identified the BG3 mod as against policy and flagged it with a DMCA. That's what lawyers do. When the internet outcry arose (and fully justified at that), it was likely the execs at WotC who reviewed the...

Can WotC's employees lie when posting apologies for the company? Of course. Are they in this instance? IMO, there is no evidence of that. Do they have a history of dishonest communications? Not to my perceptions or memory, no. Are the apologies given very "corporate" and avoid directly taking...

You're allowed! But for me, this conversation has moved somewhere extreme.

Emotional abuse? Okay, I'm out.

Is WotC deeply litigious? Flinging takedown orders all over the place? I haven't seen evidence of that. It could be happening off my radar or perhaps I'm forgetting the last huge thread complaining about the Evil Overlords of the Coast.

Maybe. Probably. Still a mistake that WotC decided needed fixing. The BG3 mod did violate WotC's fan policy, they were in the legal right to send the DMCA take-down. They likely had a third-party company doing the DMCA checking, but we don't know for sure. Doesn't matter really. It's...

Well that's pretty awesome! Thanks for working that out with Paizo! Hopefully WotC will see the light and do something similar!

It's understandable if SmiteWorks needs to charge for access to the D&D PHB on their platform . . . it's also reasonable for customers to be less-than-excited about paying for access to the book again. I've always wondered how possible it would be for WotC to start a program similar to Movies...

The title and cover of Urban Shadows is giving me Urban Arcana vibes (WotC, 3E era). Which is a good thing!

So . . . semantics then. Okay. In my own life, when I make a deliberate choice . . . and it goes as expected but with unforeseen consequences that go badly for me . . . I consider that a mistake. And if possible, I'll try to correct for it. I'm glad we're focusing on the important things, like...

I'll give you similar leeway that I give WotC. Likely more, actually. I'm assuming you aren't perfect and that you do indeed make mistakes from time to time. Maybe even mistakes that impact others in some way. If it seems to me that your public-facing mistakes aren't coming from a place of...

A mistake can result from intentional action. And you can have the legal authority to do something, but it can still be a bad idea. IANAL, but it is my understanding that the initial DMCA takedown from WotC on this BG3 mod was completely legally legit. And yet . . . still a mistake. It's not...

Nope. And? I mean, if this particular mistake on WotC's part is a bridge to far for you . . . or if you've already crossed that bridge . . . okay. For me, I'm not overly bothered by this mistake . . . and many of the other smaller mistakes WotC has made over the years. I'm also not bothered...