WotC How much does Hasbro / WotC impact your feelings towards D&D?

[Clint_L]

I very much doubt people clutching their pearls at every misstep WotC makes hold the producers of other products they buy to the same standard, or they’d buy nothing. I think WotC is the big dog in our little hobby, and so some folks are always looking for reasons to hate.

 

[Minigiant]

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The only corporation that affects how I feel about D&D is the one that pays me

 

[Doc_Klueless]

<1. I just wanna kick in doors and steal the Orc’s Pie.

 

[AK81]

The way I see it, 3rd party DnD is still DnD. Maybe not in brand name, but in everything else but name. I still think of them as DnD, call them DnD, and treat them like it's DnD. I like Sly Flourish's take on 5e. And don't let WotC decide my fun with DnD. So I don't feel any compulsion to buy any more WotC products. Unless they come up with something that is too good to pass.

 

[Remathilis]

Flat one. Hasbro hasn't done any corporate level evil that a dozen other companies haven't tried or worse. I mean, Disney tried to argue they could murder me without consequence because I watched the Mandelorian, WotC ain't done nothing at that level. As long as they make products I care about and don't go into overt political speech I cannot endorse (akin to some craft stores, chicken sandwich places, or electric car companies) I'm okay with buying their stuff.

 

[mamba]

Disney tried to argue they could murder me without consequence because I watched the Mandelorian

they still would have to make it look like an accident though

 

[Corinnguard]

they still would have to make it look like an accident though

Is their Deception skill modifier good enough to beat everyone else's Insight?

 

[schneeland]

I very much doubt people clutching their pearls at every misstep WotC makes hold the producers of other products they buy to the same standard, or they’d buy nothing. I think WotC is the big dog in our little hobby, and so some folks are always looking for reasons to hate.

Might be the case. But I'd reason that maybe people use other, much smaller publishers as their benchmark. And in a competition between the large, relatively anonymous corporation (WotC/Hasbro) and three guys in their garage (2 Little Mice and the like), it's really not that surprising that the latter comes out as a lot more sympathetic and much closer to their fanbase.

 

[Micah Sweet]

while not a fan of certain changes they make and continue to make, I also love D&D and realize that 9 times out of 10 if you want to find an RPG table to play it, it will be WotC D&D.

So might as well except it and do my thing.

Mostly they drove me from wanting to DM their game but I’ll play it as a player.

See, that whole, "everybody is playing WotC D&D, so I should too if I ever want to play anything" doesn't affect me much, because I'm not out there looking for random games to play. If I were, the peer pressure to hop on WotC's bandwagon would be easier to understand.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Might be the case. But I'd reason that maybe people use other, much smaller publishers as their benchmark. And in a competition between the large, relatively anonymous corporation (WotC/Hasbro) and three guys in their garage (2 Little Mice and the like), it's really not that surprising that the latter comes out as a lot more sympathetic and much closer to their fanbase.

Possibly because the people making the business decisions in these smaller companies are also the ones making the game in many cases. Very much not the case with WotC.