D&D 5E Don't Throw 5e Away Because of Hasbro

[darjr]

I get that it may have been polite in Mikes case but I’m not sure it was nice. Didn’t he say it was so bad he’d probably never do it again.

 

[mamba]

It made it onto the list here of things WotC did to be offended by.

yes, no one said to be offended in perpetuity, it was just a counter to your ‘they did nothing that anyone could possibly have an issue with’

Yes. As per my previous post. It wasn’t even slightly objectionable.

see…

 

[mamba]

I thought that was implied

at that point your ‘they did nothing bad for two years’ becomes pretty pointless though, why even bring it up?

 

[mamba]

Weird though that some refused to do it, or stuck to their guns, and they could still share what they made originally, like Sly Flourish.

they reviewed the video and decided it was ok unaltered after all

 

[mamba]

I suspect they were totally blindsided by youtubers sharing their entire product and calling it a review. Page by page. Has that ever happened before?

it was one YTer, and yes it has

I’m pretty gobsmacked by the whole thing. Can you ever imagine them doing a page by page release of a Level Up product?

I don’t think EN Publishing would do anything, most of it is under CC anyway (and congrats to Morrus for that).

I believe the Kobolds explicitly said that you can share full pages after this, and that they do not care how many

 

[mamba]

Like I said above not familiar with all the issues but common sense would tell me that I can't share page after page after page even if it wasn't explicitly spelled out when I received my review copy.

yeah, I would not either, but then only one did and others got notices too for doing pretty standard reviews they have done for other products before

 

[mamba]

On what planet is that even remotely considered ”fair use”?

no idea, but on what planet is that not basically a commercial / infomercial?

 

[liteberer]

apologist: a person who offers an argument in defense of something controversial.

I'm posting this up for TheSword guy who insists on supporting WOTC. I mean, there's 697 comments on this one post alone, so I think that is, by definition, controversial. And he consistently defends them even though he says he doesn't.

I don't have a dog in this fight, I'm just amused by his insistence.

 

[TheSword]

Yes I believe several YouTubers were known for paging thru books. Maybe not as complete. A couple few twitch folks too.

Here is Newbie DMs. Tome of Foes. WotC sent him a review copy.

I guess I would consider there to be a huge difference between flicking through a book with the text unreadable, giving a sense of the layout and topics. As opposed to a picture perfect readable page word for word. Huge difference.

 

[Micah Sweet]

I guess I would consider there to be a huge difference between flicking through a book with the text unreadable, giving a sense of the layout and topics. As opposed to a picture perfect readable page word for word. Huge difference.

I'm not convinced a quick flick-through so you can see the layout and topics is enough to satisfy the audience likely to base their purchasing decision on an internet influencer's promotional video.