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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pming" data-source="post: 7754525" data-attributes="member: 45197">Hiya!I could see them having an official "D&D Channel" somewhere where you could watch the 'first episode' for free and then only subscribers get to watch subsequent ones. They could have a variety of groups doing this. Interesting...looks like "Professional Game Master" might just become an actual THING. LOL! Of course, if/when they do this I can also see Hasbro trying to "crack down" on supposedly "unauthorized D&D streams and videos". Legal? Nope. But Hasbro has more money and lawyers than us, so they win (Yeah American legal system! <---sarcasm ). I can see cease and desist emails going out in droves "You are displaying product IP and speaking about product IP and copyright of Hasbro's D&D brand games and products. We demand that you stop doing so immediately. Thank you". <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />The other problem...5e D&D isn't very tournament friendly, from what I remember a 'tournament' being. I was only ever in one, waaaaaay back in the early 80's. It used 1e AD&D, and in that game a LOT of the success and failure of the group is based on the PLAYERS capability to work together and individual PLAYER skill. Wanted to find that hidden key in the desk? You had to think of it and describe what/how you are doing it ("I examine the desk. I'll carefully remove each drawer and check them for hidden compartments or scrolls taped to the undersides. Oh, also, the legs of the desk...checking to see if any are hollow"). Nowadays with 5e? "I check the desk...got a 17 on my Investigation".Mechanics take over a LOT of what used to be "playing the game" back in the day...which is fine, just different. This would mean, to me, that a stream of an official "D&D Tournament" would probably be nothing more than an endless series of dice rolls punctuated with brief "I do X" statements. Old tournaments relied mostly on fair DM's and player skill/capability. I think a new 5e version would be...quite different (and not nearly as exciting to watch). YMMV.^_^Paul L. Ming</blockquote>

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