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Moderate voice if reason. I was part of too many Twitter mobs condemning people for failing to immediately respond (like DriveThru RPG during the "Tournament of Rapists" fiasco. Getting angry and demanding immediate response doesn't fix anything. I prefer to give people time to respond and see...

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Yes. There are multiple threads on one of the CR subreddits and calls fir an official statement breaking ties with dndbeyond

Not "no one." A statistically small percentage. There are millions of D&D players. How many backed MCDM and Kobold Press' latest kickstarters?

How have they showed their willingness if they haven't actually released the OGL 1.1? This feels like condemning someone for having bad thoughts... And by not releasing it, haven't they also show their willingness to listen to fans and not kill the OGL?

CR quickly left G&S to be its own brand. They've always valued independence. After being negatively associated with D&D and dndbeyond over the OGL and people calling for a CR boycott over taking sponsorship money, why on Earth would CR partner with someone else and risk this happening again...

Have you actually used 3rd Party products at your game table in your last campaign or two? (Books and PDFs, not personal homebrew.) I've bought lots of 3PP content but none of it has been used apart from monsters... -edit- I excluded campaign setting and adventures as those can be pretty...

Fixing the mess should be easy as WotC hasn't actually done anything yet. It would be super easy for them to deny and just claim the leaked OGL was one of a few possible licenses they were working on, but not the one they plan to release. And then pass off the delayed response as them trying...

This sounds horrible but is actually probably pretty reasonable. Plot twist: WotC is a business and they always care about their bottom line first. If something sells, they'll make more. If something is hurting sales, they'll stop. This isn't unique to them. When Pathfinder went big in the...

There are lots of other people making content in the TTRPG space, but D&D isn't really competing with any of them. Pathfinder and World of Darkess were the only brands to ever outsell D&D, and the former likely only did so because as many people stopped buying RPG books altogether or stuck with...

Hasbro stock was at 63.59 when the OGL news broke on iO9. Then it rose the next two days, dropped close to where it was on the 10th and has been mostly rising since. Hasbro stock has never been particularly tied to D&D.

PbtA is much more of player controlled game where the player can narrate and describe what they do, which is something Matt tends to save for deathblows. It's described as "a conversation" in many books with a back-and-forth. Which is fun to play, but less fun to watch. The more traditional RPG...

Matt seems like more of a simulism DM than one who likes the abstraction of PbtA. And Van Norman might prefer to revise a ruleset he's already created and run, like Outbreak: Undead 2nd Ed - Pocket Book - Hunters Entertainment | Outbreak: Undead 2e | DriveThruRPG.com

It's a neat idea but... can't you just use the various Creative Common licenses? About The Licenses - Creative Commons I know Eclipse Phase uses them, so it's possible for gaming.

They have a book and game publishing sub-company (Darrington Press) headed by Ivan Van Norman, who has written RPGs before. Between him, James Haeck, and Matt Mercer himself they could easily craft a fun rules lite game designed for streaming. Maybe a little more narrative manipulation or even...

It won't. They'll take a hit but the game will still likely be better than 5e was at launch, and they can replace lost players with newcomers over the next decade.

They haven't released anything yet, so it's very possible for them to salvage the situation by simply coming out and saying "This was an early draft, but it didn't meet our standards, for many of the reasons raised by the community." And then wave off their silence by claiming they didn't want...

Honestly, even without the OGL fiasco I was planning a D&D break, and will likely switch to the FFG/ Edge Star Wars game for a while.

$10 was also their price in 2009 when no one what a good price for a PDF was, if it should be the same price as the physical or much less. Since then, the industry has largely settled on $20-$30 with Paizo being one of the last low price holdovers. Given how many people only buy the PDFs now...

As someone else said, that would mess with screen readers. It would also make the site unusable on mobile devices (tablets and phones) that rely on other resolutions. And you couldn't zoom in or out to change the font size. And it would be harder to update as you'd need to make and upload a...