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<blockquote data-quote="Retreater" data-source="post: 9588236" data-attributes="member: 42040">My dad did have pretty gross eating habits. You know that really loud smacking lips while eating? We made peace in the end and had a few good years together before he passed away around a year ago. Oddly, I credit being the &quot;worse son&quot; for making me a better person in many ways. I have a split perspective. Like, I love it when I get to interact with people who are new to the hobby. I see the (now) college-age kids from the neighborhood who were once in my game now running games for their friends. They have picked up some DM-isms from me. It makes me happy to see the hobby continuing like this.What ends up bothering me is seeing too much &quot;how the sausage is made&quot; at WotC corporate: spinning off the hobby into online gambling, CEOs referring to monetization strategies and the incorporation of AI, etc. So, having folks want to try out the hobby - that's great. Having corporate realize there are new ways to get to my money while not caring about if I'm having fun or not - that's not great. And I know that TSR wasn't this altruistic business to bring joy to gamers around the world. It's just that we didn't hear that stuff until way after the fact. It's hard to not feel that the C-suite is just looking down at us and laughing their way to the bank.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Retreater, post: 9588236, member: 42040"] My dad did have pretty gross eating habits. You know that really loud smacking lips while eating? We made peace in the end and had a few good years together before he passed away around a year ago. Oddly, I credit being the "worse son" for making me a better person in many ways. I have a split perspective. Like, I love it when I get to interact with people who are new to the hobby. I see the (now) college-age kids from the neighborhood who were once in my game now running games for their friends. They have picked up some DM-isms from me. It makes me happy to see the hobby continuing like this. What ends up bothering me is seeing too much "how the sausage is made" at WotC corporate: spinning off the hobby into online gambling, CEOs referring to monetization strategies and the incorporation of AI, etc. So, having folks want to try out the hobby - that's great. Having corporate realize there are new ways to get to my money while not caring about if I'm having fun or not - that's not great. And I know that TSR wasn't this altruistic business to bring joy to gamers around the world. It's just that we didn't hear that stuff until way after the fact. It's hard to not feel that the C-suite is just looking down at us and laughing their way to the bank. [/QUOTE]

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