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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9288434" data-attributes="member: 18">I guess what we're illustrating here is that we're two old cynics who are cynical about different things lol.I would absolutely shrug at that and then probably boringly explain how I thought WotC's position was fairly reasonable! Also you normally just legally threaten people and then negotiate - taking actual legal action is cringe Nintendo stuff.I cannot argue with that logic, though I am willing to bet that a whole bunch of people at WotC are absolute non-geeks/nerds, just not the people working directly on the games. The execs are mostly Microsoft corporate, and lot of MS corporate are MBA racquetball types (not that there's anything wrong with that, but geek it ain't) who just happen to have come into the tech field because it has $$$ in it, even if MS' top leaders (like Nadella) are indeed nerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrds. Thankfully I am younger than Musk so he is not "a kid" to me!Yeah that's pretty interesting because it indicates that WotC has essentially three competing strategies for digital D&D, which is to say, D&D Beyond, who are gradually (very slowly) building their own simple and easy to use conventional VTT, the 3D VTT team, who are massive compared to the actual D&D and Beyond teams, and building an incredibly flashy and bells-and-whistles-oriented 3D VTT, and the D&D team themselves who are presumably behind licencing out D&D to various extant VTTs. At least it's not all eggs in one basket!</blockquote>

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