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Do they take any initiative at all? What do you see them respond positively to or gravitate toward? It's starting to sound like they view the game as mostly passive entertainment like a movie, to be honest.

Talk. To. Your. Players. Out of game. Explicitly say some of the things you said here, or slightly more polite versions of them. This is not a problem you're going to solve with scenario design alone.

I just stumbled on a thread on Reddit that was very critical of Granny Appleseed's riddle on page 33 of Memories of Holdenshire. Although one thing the thread doesn't mention is that the adventure does allow for fairly easy skill checks to get additional clues, which somewhat reduces the bite of...

Ah. That makes sense. Scribd has legit e-book and audiobook sections, but anything D&D-related I've seen there is user-uploaded with no indication that it's in any way approved by WotC. So, almost certainly pirated. I'm less familiar with that side of archive.org (I mostly just use the Wayback...

There's not enough detail here to be sure but my first thought is that perhaps he fell for one of the scams that advertise regularly on Facebook.

I went Dragonlance, Eberron, and "Something I Forgot", specifically with Dark Sun in mind. Krynn especially seems tailor-made for a big-budget TV series, all you need to do is adapt the OG novels with relatively small changes for modern tastes. You would really need to embrace problematizing the...

Another case where a link would be nice. When did they promise that?

There's a lot of arguments for that (EDIT to clarify: for keeping OGL 1.0a). Promissory estoppel probably doesn't crack the top 5, even from a strictly legal perspective, let alone ethically. But I think I do see what you're getting at for all that. Also, I'd be extremely surprised (and...

I think you mean estoppel, and the problem with that is, who exactly would the complainant be? Not most of their current audience or even most collectors, who have seen prices go up due to reprints in many cases due to increased demand. In the very common case of once-in-demand cards that are...

That's a completely different thing in that Reserved List is a rule the overwhelming majority of their audience doesn't want them to honour. This wasn't the way to do it but frankly, that's one promise they should tear up. Unfortunately there seems to be some (actual or perceived) legal issue...

For the same reason he produced the OP, which is, to be as charitable as possible, poor reading comprehension. He was ostensibly responding to arguments against his take that the OGL was some kind of trick to drive people to DM's Guild. There are many reasons that have been brought up why this...

Well, it achieved that.

First of all, NDAs often contain restrictions on doing that. Second, that's not what they said. They said they're waiting for "further information" and "an answer". They don't say they haven't had any discussions and they don't say anything like "about these rumors" - that's a substantial...

That their hands are tied in that respect by an NDA, but that enough is now public that they can comment based on that without violating said NDA.

It's really the only way to go if they want to future-proof this thing. After the events of the last few weeks people are going to want as much assurance as humanly possible that they can't happen again.

I think you misunderstood the question, which was whether there would continue to be printed books as opposed to making D&D online-only.

I suspect the thought process is closer to making the 2 mil, or ideally more like 4-5 mil, off 20,000 consumers - i.e. a larger, individually less invested group. The mass market, basically. Those 20k will naturally have little overlap with the original 1k, I mean they couldn't possibly make up...

How? By what mechanism short of Hasbro ceasing to exist (not bloody likely) would this lead to Hasbro losing D&D?

On the one hand, my first instinct is to agree with this. But on the other, the purpose of most "legalese" is to be unambiguous in a way ordinary language often isn't. There's at least some movement - the lawyers here can perhaps speak to whether it's taken hold, all I know is that it exists -...

I don't see the D&D brand being sold off unless Hasbro itself outright dies (which, granted, feels possible in a way it didn't a couple months ago - not likely, but possible). Hasbro would rather sit on the IP for a decade or two then bring it back as, I don't know, a line of action figures or...