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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9406787" data-attributes="member: 18">I personally doubt that is what happened.Why? Because the brakes were thrown so late, only after it became not only gaming news, but started appearing in mainstream publications as a "Look, Hasbro messed up!" piece. If he just needed to listen to people at WotC, it'd have been stopped before it happened, or earlier on, when there was outcry from D&D players, but before it got to the wider press.Sure, and I'm not suggesting you're being unreasonable - you pretty much never are - but for me it does somewhat change my calculus as to how much to invest into D&D. Because if bad decisions like this are being made by Hasbro (not WotC) and taking this much resistance to stop them, D&D is a bit more likely to "randomly explode" than I thought it was. It's not going to stop me buying the 2024 books say, but it going to factor in as a consideration as to whether to buy stuff that isn't the core three, stuff I might not use or not use much. It's only one part of the calculus. The fact that they haven't either publicly cancelled or revealed a working or near-working product for the 3D VTT  is another factor, for example. It also makes me feel like maybe Hasbro are a bit more actually-dysfunctional than I thought, which means WotC/D&D are a bit more likely to end up getting sold than I was calculating.</blockquote>