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<blockquote data-quote="SlyFlourish" data-source="post: 9433144" data-attributes="member: 54840"><p><a href="https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/dungeons-dragons-jess-lanzillo-interview-2025-plans-core-rulebooks-crossover/" target="_blank">Comicbook.com has an interview</a> with the new D&D Vice President Jess Lanzillo.</p><p></p><p>Here are some interesting quotes with my own commentary.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>This feels like misdirection. The question had nothing to do with a false dichotomy between players who play online and those who play in person. She steered the real question about a fear of a future digital D&D and mandates from on-high to shift to digital to a culture war between players who like playing in person and those who play online. That was never the concern. I don't know <em>anyone</em> who would say that playing online shouldn't exist. This is about a fear of WOTC trying to take further control of the game by pushing it into their own walled garden.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>If by "freedom" you mean paying us rent to our own imaginations. I'd like the freedom to create by using PDFs of the rulesbooks so I know I'll have them forever. How about that freedom?</p><p></p><p>Going into this reading this interview, I was prepared for it to aim at the audience she had rather than opening up to any real truth to what decisions are going on with Hasbro and D&D. For me, the only thing that matters are when Hasbro and WOTC commit to things they can't take back like the 5.1 SRD in the CC, the SRD in four languages, actually producing physical books we can buy and keep, support for downloadable VTT platforms like Foundry and Fantasy Grounds – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_pact" target="_blank">true Ulysses pacts</a>.</p><p></p><p>I'd have loved to hear:</p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Further confirmation of a 5.2 SRD in the CC in March 2024.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Further commitment to release D&D on other digital platforms like Foundry and Fantasy Grounds.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Further commitment that all major D&D releases will be in physical books.</li> </ul><p></p><p>Instead, I'm hearing I'm gatekeeping the hobby by being concerned that WOTC is shoring up the walls of their walled garden...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Ok, that sounds pretty cool.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SlyFlourish, post: 9433144, member: 54840"] [URL='https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/dungeons-dragons-jess-lanzillo-interview-2025-plans-core-rulebooks-crossover/']Comicbook.com has an interview[/URL] with the new D&D Vice President Jess Lanzillo. Here are some interesting quotes with my own commentary. This feels like misdirection. The question had nothing to do with a false dichotomy between players who play online and those who play in person. She steered the real question about a fear of a future digital D&D and mandates from on-high to shift to digital to a culture war between players who like playing in person and those who play online. That was never the concern. I don't know [I]anyone[/I] who would say that playing online shouldn't exist. This is about a fear of WOTC trying to take further control of the game by pushing it into their own walled garden. If by "freedom" you mean paying us rent to our own imaginations. I'd like the freedom to create by using PDFs of the rulesbooks so I know I'll have them forever. How about that freedom? Going into this reading this interview, I was prepared for it to aim at the audience she had rather than opening up to any real truth to what decisions are going on with Hasbro and D&D. For me, the only thing that matters are when Hasbro and WOTC commit to things they can't take back like the 5.1 SRD in the CC, the SRD in four languages, actually producing physical books we can buy and keep, support for downloadable VTT platforms like Foundry and Fantasy Grounds – [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_pact']true Ulysses pacts[/URL]. I'd have loved to hear: [LIST] [*]Further confirmation of a 5.2 SRD in the CC in March 2024. [*]Further commitment to release D&D on other digital platforms like Foundry and Fantasy Grounds. [*]Further commitment that all major D&D releases will be in physical books. [/LIST] Instead, I'm hearing I'm gatekeeping the hobby by being concerned that WOTC is shoring up the walls of their walled garden... Ok, that sounds pretty cool. [/QUOTE]
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