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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kurotowa" data-source="post: 9156068" data-attributes="member: 27957">I'm all for WotC running D&D as a business. A well run business stays in business. TSR went bankrupt and got bought out, and we're fantastically lucky that they were bought by WotC who cared about the game. These days they'd get snatched up by some terrible venture capital investment firm that would chop up D&D for parts. So I entirely support making smart business choices so WotC can keep making D&D.This one hits close to home for me because I grew up the child of two science fiction authors. Published authors, award winning authors. I also grew up very poor, because my father subscribed to that binary between art and business, and was adamant about choosing art every time. He burned his bridges and stopped getting contracts and then there were no more novels. Refusing to compromise between art and business meant no more art and no more business.The other extreme is bad too, of course. Soulless money grabs are just as harmful to both art and business in the long run. But lionizing art over business is just a good way to go out of business. A balance needs to be struck.</blockquote>