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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 9410793" data-attributes="member: 6801228">Okay, but I want to run a quick little experiment. In front of you I set a VHS tape with original Miracle on 34th Street and a D&D PHB. With only those two items, a pencil and a notebook of paper, which of those activities can you participate in? In other words, is it possible to watch a VHS without a VHS player? Because that might be a significant difference between "movies won't be physically available" and "I can't play DnD on the Tabletop anymore". No. I mean it won't happen. The people who want to convince me it WILL happen seem to be talking in dire terms about a potential 20 years into the future. At which point, I just need to laugh at the absurdity of trying to predict how things will go in the next 20 years. And, as I keep explaining, it won't happen and cannot happen because of how the DnD community operates. DnD as a game you play is different than movies and video games. It doesn't function the same. If Ubisoft locks a section of the Assassin's Creed story behind a DLC paywall, you cannot play that story. It WoTC makes an adventure that can only be played if you purchase it digitally... well most of us make our own adventures anyways. We don't require their adventures to play DnD. If Activision locks the super sniple Rifle 20XX behind a micotransaction, you cannot use that weapon without paying the,. If WoTC made the Stave of Rings and locked it behind a microtransaction... we only need ONE youtuber or ONE reddit poster or ONE EnWorld poster to type out what it does or post a screenshot because they want to discuss the mechanics of the rules.... and the entire community has access to that item. The absolute worst possible future that I can imagine from everything you keep saying is that WoTC will have a VTT that has a monthly subscription cost for fancy graphics. And that is a nothing burger. It won't harm the game any more than the subscriptions for Roll20, or the lead miniatures made by a dozen companies that charge you to make your game look prettier.</blockquote>

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