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Message: <blockquote data-quote="aramis erak" data-source="post: 9235683" data-attributes="member: 6779310">The problem WotC has isn't the mid-2023 OGL snafu.It's that the corporate oversight thinks it's not being run for maximum profits.And HasBro is, at the end of the quarter, a public stock company with a duty under US law to maximize profits unless doing so violates some mission statement approved by the BoD.If WotC doesn't increase returns on investment on the RPG, shuttering the game design portion might improve WotC's return on operational investment.  It's not clear.If HasBro isn't satisfied, they might replace WotC current leadership, or even shutter the company and just license the IP... It's been said that the RPG is one of the smaller components of the D&D IP from a corporate standpoint. Novels and movies are large sources of D&D income.</blockquote>