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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...

Was pleased to see that she shared my opinion on what the morality clause was tossed in. I generally share her scepticism.

I will not invest in tobacco companies and have turned down several offers to interview there over the years. I have some indirect investment via index funds, but I cannot avoid that. Any claim that somehow a woman finance analysts gets a pass because of their gender does not understand the...

That is a personal decision. The question is more - do you enforce your personal decision on all others by banning the work? And, in this case, do I give WoTC that right over all others who produce content? Do I believe that the y were so strongly motivated by the perceived need to police the...

I was not a U.S. citizen during the time Milo was active and even today I don’t pay attention to similar political media promoters, so I am fairly ignorant of that subject. I bought AKCS from a bundle offering (not even knowing about anything more than the marketing text) and it seems to be a...

And the claims about the author are opinion that may not match with reality (I think they are hyperbole, but that is my opinion). The work itself is just a fairly straightforward S&S ruleset. Nothing wrong with it.

Who was chasing anyone around? I am just here. Some examples were discussed and I think you will see that I engaged in good faith.

The mods here are very reasonable. You have to be pretty egregious to get commented on. The rules on what will get you in trouble are clear as well.

Rpg.net. Their theme is purple coloured. Trust me, much better discussions here.