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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DonTadow" data-source="post: 3197204" data-attributes="member: 22622">I use might because you never know. (mathematically its not impossible). Wizards is scuttling it away so that they can control the product. That seems to be something that wizards has been rumored to want control of since 3.5, control of dungeons and dragons.I couldn't see why WOTC wouldn't open up their checkbook on this one. They realize now that d and d is more than just some nerdfad and its a commodity. I might have been as much a skeptic as you guys. Heck, I'm usually the first person with my pitchfork outside of a microsoft or hasbro. Perhaps I've toned it down in my old age, but I just don't see this as that bad. I think about it like this. PCGen, DMGenie and a host of other programs (NPCDesigner) were created by individuals as ahobby first. These were just regular guys in the d and d community. With the upgrades in technology and enough money behind it, image what wonders can be done to this program. I figure if hasbro got behind magic<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":o" title="Eek!    :o"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":o" />nline and made it a success, why not others. Sure they started out as a toy company but they have been developing various software for their other brands and products. And as Bill Gates would say if you said you're switching to LInux "SO". One day wotc will be producing the only dungeons and dragons related material and small portion of die hard anti-hasbros are not going to stop the profit margin their hoping to make. And WOTC won't care who takes their ball and go home. Again, I'm using magic the gathering as my template here. I was a big time player, and once that online virtual thing hit its stride my interest died off, but by opening up some type of internet component, they brought more fans into it, obviously replacing me and my money. I dont think noones stifling the creative minds of the d and d world BTW.</blockquote>

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