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That was true for D&D before 5th Edition. It was not necessarily true for other RPGs, and it is not the sales model WotC has pursued for 5E, both 2014 and 2024. The 2024 books are selling well RIGHT NOW. Will that be sustained over time? That, of course, we'll have to wait and see.

Your tone is getting pushback, not so much your request for more info. It comes across as, "Oh yeah? Prove it!" rather than, "I don't have all the info, can you direct me to some of it?" For example, "I think using the wild west as recent history is a bit dodgy, but hey." Nobody actually used...

Your ignorance does not equate to others "spreading rumors". I feel @Faolyn's description of the event in question, WotC sending Pinkertons to harass a MtG YouTuber, is one with charged language . . . but none-the-less is fairly accurate to what happened. However, despite your own ignorance on...

Yes, fear of change transcends age and different generations. It can even be passed down from parents to their kids . . . You should hear some of the stuff some of my 13-year old students, with nerdy parents at home, say about D&D . . . it used to shock me and I had to check to see if a 50-60...

So, all YouTubers then. Oookay.

Are they involved in union busting or corporate thuggery? And so it's not "YouTubers" but rather a handful of individual YouTubers? Okay.

Anyone? All, or most, of tabletop fandom is aware? Yeah, if only. It's one warning, enough that those who hear it might look deeper. Just as what we are doing in this thread.

I'm sure, but what exactly is your point? I may be misunderstanding, but you seem dismissive of the discussion that GAMA is a troubled organization. Like it's no big whoop. If so, I'd counter that the industry trade organization for the industry that serves our fandom is an important topic of...

WotC definitely could claim ownership over Perkin's Iomandra campaign, and anything else he developed while working for WotC . . . but I don't think they would likely exercise that option. What would it gain them? While interesting settings, they did not garner fan support similar to Eberron or...

Okay. Shrug. Not all corporations are poorly managed or toxic Plus, GAMA is an industry trade organization.

I don't know what else to tell you, this type of contract is common in creative industries.

Yes, that's how it works . . . depending on the work contract you sign. It's not uncommon in creative industries, and even other industries as well. I'm a school teacher, and technically, any curriculum I develop belongs to my school district, due to the employment contract I signed. The idea...

No, you're still responsible for fixing up your shed . . . but if you do a really good job and make it look super nice, then Morrus gets to take it for his own back yard.

No it can't. Maybe you're being funny (ha ha) . . . but the Pinkertons have a deserved reputation as thugs and union-busters and not just back in the wild west days, but today.

Hey! Weezer doesn't have bad albums! Pinkerton is great! Well, okay, still not their best, sure . . .

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...