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<blockquote data-quote="Distracted DM" data-source="post: 9254663" data-attributes="member: 6894926"><p>Very very true. I think the article title was clickbait (jeez, what isn't these days?)- <s>the first sentence states video game rights. </s>(edit: it's further down in the article)</p><p></p><p>What I don't like, however, is that people immediately dismissed the very IDEA that Hasbro might sell the Dungeons & Dragons intellectual property. Because it's <em>possible- </em>but 99% of people, including myself, now equate the IP with WotC... but it's an IP. They CAN sell it. The ramifications of something like that are staggering- the majority of folks on the D&D team at WotC, for one- talk about layoffs <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😥" title="Sad but relieved face :disappointed_relieved:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f625.png" data-shortname=":disappointed_relieved:" />.</p><p>All the things that are attached to the playing of the D&D- DnDBeyond, DMsGuild, etc. all disrupted or ended if another company acquires it and wants to make it their own.</p><p></p><p>The reason that I don't like the "preposterous!" reaction is because I think we equate D&D, this giant of the hobby, with the hobby itself. Part of me <em>HOPED </em>that this would actually turn into something legit- because I thought it could be for the betterment of the hobby itself, TTRPGs, to decouple the "tabletop roleplaying <strong><em>is</em></strong> D&D" monolith. This MASSIVE new player base that has sprung up in 5e, to many of them 5e is D&D, D&D is WotC, D&D is THE TTRPG. It might just be a sliver of anarchist in me? I don't know.</p><p></p><p>I'm not stuck to this idea, but I didn't like that I realized that I equated WotC with D&D; even though I started in AD&D, by the time I was buying books it was 3e and WotC D&D.</p><p></p><p>It's an IP- that's all it is to Hasbro; if it makes sense to them to sell it, and they had a buyer, they would. Hell, Hasbro's not even sure how to make money from it- they've been planning and making moves, hiring lootbox/battlepass-experienced video game executives for WotC positions etc. but it's all still in the works. They might feel like D&D's value is at an all-time high, and that luster might fade sooner than later.</p><p></p><p>So to dismiss the idea because it just seems ludicrous because in the back of our heads WotC=D&D=TTRPG, that bothers me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Distracted DM, post: 9254663, member: 6894926"] Very very true. I think the article title was clickbait (jeez, what isn't these days?)- [S]the first sentence states video game rights. [/S](edit: it's further down in the article) What I don't like, however, is that people immediately dismissed the very IDEA that Hasbro might sell the Dungeons & Dragons intellectual property. Because it's [I]possible- [/I]but 99% of people, including myself, now equate the IP with WotC... but it's an IP. They CAN sell it. The ramifications of something like that are staggering- the majority of folks on the D&D team at WotC, for one- talk about layoffs 😥. All the things that are attached to the playing of the D&D- DnDBeyond, DMsGuild, etc. all disrupted or ended if another company acquires it and wants to make it their own. The reason that I don't like the "preposterous!" reaction is because I think we equate D&D, this giant of the hobby, with the hobby itself. Part of me [I]HOPED [/I]that this would actually turn into something legit- because I thought it could be for the betterment of the hobby itself, TTRPGs, to decouple the "tabletop roleplaying [B][I]is[/I][/B] D&D" monolith. This MASSIVE new player base that has sprung up in 5e, to many of them 5e is D&D, D&D is WotC, D&D is THE TTRPG. It might just be a sliver of anarchist in me? I don't know. I'm not stuck to this idea, but I didn't like that I realized that I equated WotC with D&D; even though I started in AD&D, by the time I was buying books it was 3e and WotC D&D. It's an IP- that's all it is to Hasbro; if it makes sense to them to sell it, and they had a buyer, they would. Hell, Hasbro's not even sure how to make money from it- they've been planning and making moves, hiring lootbox/battlepass-experienced video game executives for WotC positions etc. but it's all still in the works. They might feel like D&D's value is at an all-time high, and that luster might fade sooner than later. So to dismiss the idea because it just seems ludicrous because in the back of our heads WotC=D&D=TTRPG, that bothers me. [/QUOTE]
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