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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 9412709" data-attributes="member: 6801228">Idealized nothing. I know how impossible it is to moderate large-scale content like copyright strikes against animated TV shows. Trying to moderate the intent of text? It is literally impossible. They would have to prevent you from writing about the abilities you have on your legal character, just to prevent someone making a legal one. It would be a trash fire of such obvious magnitude that no one wanting a successful product would ever attempt it. It doesn't matter how much some suited president screams about revenue loss, the IT and software departments will tell them "This is not possible"Because they can't TRACK it. To prevent someone from writing the Gloomstalker Ranger's ability into something else, they would need to not only track the word "psychic" but also "d8" and the context of every usage of those words or phrases. They would have to redact their OWN CLASSES to prevent it. And then ALSO prevent anyone from typing into a chat box those words.So they will make custom spells and there is no issue.Because "less incentivized" is a mealy-mouthed nonsense stance. It seems to both mean that this will be so pervasive that the very foundational rules of creative play for every single person who plays in person with a core rulebook will be effected (eventually) and also so completely innocuous that it will not stop people from doing anything. So, they won't be stopped, they still can, but they won't, and so all the unlimited creative play of DnD will be strip mined from the game to serve the VTT as a soulless cash-grab.So, despite all the actual plays of people actually playing DnD and not being less incentivized to take any actions... none of it counts because it is only WoTC's VTT that will have this effect on the gaming community. Sorry, it is only WoTC's VTT that has the potential to maybe have this effect on the community where they might be less incentivized to take any possible creative action, which is the fundamental core of TTRPG play that it is sold on, and this gradual lessening of incentive will eventually erode the game until the core rulebooks are written to remove the idea that any action is possible, so that people will use the VTT which will have animations and colors.</blockquote>

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