D&D 5E (2024) New leak looks real bad

[Enrahim2]

How convinient. A leak showing some minor potential controversies allowing for distracting away from the brutal crushing of open source, and blatant third party IP wrecking/stealing, lies and broken promisses.

This seem like made for making media portray the protestors of the D&D community as a bunch of crybaybyes if they somehow are lucky enough to get these kind of quotes mixed in with coverage of the villanious OGL behavior..

 

[Minigiant]

Growing “Where we go one we go all” vibes in this whole “new leak”.

It's smelling like my predicted fear

Clickbait Content creators, Disingenuous fans of other games, and Corporate Machinations create a web of lies on both sides and land us all in a horrible position of distrust and exhaustion at the end as the different motives struggle TTRPGs back into the darkness.

 

[Greg Benage]

Totally. Especially if said product is coming from a shady, community stomping megacorp.

Well I’d say maybe don’t try to tell grownups how to spend their own money. It’s likely to be extremely unpersuasive and seems like a bad look for a hobby forum.

Anyway, I’m not a mod so I guess keep attacking until/unless someone tells you to stop.

 

[Haplo781]

Lot of problems.

At one point he states that the new leak only has one source.

The then gets updates on stream about the image, it is indeed fake, and agrees.

But the numbers are supposed to be real.

I dunno about this one.

However the REAL news in the video is how long ago they claim this was in the works.

He said that the image was supposedly real but he only had one source on that.

 

[Haplo781]

How convinient. A leak showing some minor potential controversies allowing for distracting away from the brutal crushing of open source, and blatant third party IP wrecking/stealing, lies and broken promisses.

This seem like made for making media portray the protestors of the D&D community as a bunch of crybaybyes if they somehow are lucky enough to get these kind of quotes mixed in with coverage of the villanious OGL behavior..

The guy who broke the news about OGL 1.1 has confirmed it but go off I guess

 

[darjr]

He said that the image was supposedly real but he only had one source on that.

ah! Thanks for that.

 

[gamerprinter]

They could charge $1M/month for all I care. I just need books, dice, figs, maps I design and print myself, everything homebrew or a whole lot anyway, and my regular players at a live table (I've never needed nor used VTT for any reason). I am not a D&D Beyond subscriber now, nor would I be at any price. I barely use online SRDs as my only use of online content, generally using the books. So D&D Beyond provides no benefit to me - never has and never will. I have no animosity to WotC, it's just that I'm old school about how I run my games, no matter what edition or game system I'm running at the time. So I find this issue meaningless to me.

 

[ersatzphil]

A $500 box of Dwarven Forge was dropped off at my door last Thursday. Am I a "sucker"?

$500 of Dwarven Forge!? That's, like... three whole rooms!

I kid, I kid. Their stuff is quite nice, from what I've seen.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

How about PF(2)? All official content available in searchable form for free online, along with plenty of optons for free character builders and other tooling?

Discussed in a different thread.

 

[Enrahim2]

The guy who broke the news about OGL 1.1 has confirmed it but go off I guess

I don't doubt the legitimising of the leak. This seem like the kind of thing that would not have raised eyebrows at all if presented officially under other contexts along with the other subscription tiers and full multimedia advertisement of more of all the amazing things you get at the "Elminster tier".

It is the timing I find problematic. If this is not mixed with the OGL in the reporting, that won't cause confusion, and might give another push to some to just give up on D&D beyond. But I sort of doubt that. Either this news fizzles out, or it is going to dilute the messaging around 1.0a