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I agree. I was just pointing out that there is a further step for folks who absolutely no longer want to support the company.

https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/can-holiday-shopping-boycotts-make-difference The question is about holiday boycotts, but the information from the studies being used to assess are about boycotts in general. Due to corporations going back on promises and a few other variables, they...

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I don't view WotC as negatively as I did in the year or so after the OGL disaster, but it's still not positive. For my part WotC's reputation won't be good until they fulfill the promise they made to put the older editions into CC.

That doesn't make sense to me. I'm constantly in games thinking about how I could do something better, but that doesn't mean that I was forced into that situation by the DM. There are lots of ways to improve upon non-railroading situations. Is there more to your, "I could do this better" that...

My contention is that the differences between linear and railroad are that with linear there is 1) player buy-in, and 2) in a table top RPG you can get off the line. You can't have either of those with a railroad. Computers don't qualify as a railroad, because there's automatic buy-in when you...

In 5e DC 15 is by RAW only a moderate/medium difficulty. Difficult would be DC 20(hard) or DC 25(very hard) since it's not one of the set adjectives and we have to interpret it. I'd put it at 20 myself.

I discovered that Marvel did a Cloak and Dagger series and just finished watching that. I'm also watching West Wing and just finished Sherlock, neither of which I'd seen before. In-between I'm re-watching an episode The Mandalorian.

A 20%-40% success rate isn't generally effective.

Chic Fil A had record profits spurred by the boycott against it. In N Out saw no loss due to the boycott due to loyal customers coming out in support. Amazon saw a 6% increase during a boycott. It literally has a name. The "Buycott" effect.

There was not another side to the D&D boycott as there usually is for other boycotts. That's why I said generally ineffective. Even when organized, the other side comes out in droves to counter the boycott. Most boycotts are based on politics or other social issues, and so there is generally...

Boycotts are generally just plain ineffective. There is usually a large group on the other side that comes out to rally against the boycott, and in my experience more come out to rally than are boycotting. The only effective boycott I can think of is against Target, because it managed to piss...

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Boycotts target the right people, but generally hit the wrong people. Generally owners/CEOs don't lose anything financially. If the boycott is hurting the bottom line, they cut jobs and hours to make up for it, so it's the innocent people who suffer the consequences of a boycott. And that's...

I would argue that there's a bit of product promotion happening when you use your older products. If I pull out my 5e stuff and play at a convention, people are still seeing me play a WotC product and some might go to a store and buy D&D for the first time, because they thought the game looked...

That's why it's so important for the DM to play with auto successes and auto failures. The 5e rules say not to roll unless the outcome is in doubt and failure has meaning. If you only have one of those, you don't roll. The Cleric of Osiris wouldn't be rolling at all for the vast majority of...

Some ideas. Gate the rolls behind proficiency for tasks like that. Alternatively, you can have different DCs for proficient and non-proficient, so not only does the proficient person get proficiency bonus, but the task is also easier.

100% static. The difficulty for climbing a specific rock face isn't going to change depending on who is climbing it. It's going to be DC 16 or whatever for everyone. Someone who is really, really skilled will make it look like a breeze. Someone unskilled could kill themselves on it. That...

Not what is called D&D. What IS D&D.

I'm just saying that not all opinions are correct. In this case WotC gets to be the one to decide if it's the same game or not, and they've decided that all the editions are D&D. That makes them factually correct and your opinion can't change facts.