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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 8879912" data-attributes="member: 20741">You might be right.I don't know if VTT licensing is what is motivating them now -- but I freely admit that it is a distinct possibility. I only play via VTT and have for more than a decade. I was an early-adopter and felt like a lonely evangelist for a long time in the 20-teens.  When, precisely, that changed is hard to put my finger on -- but it was before the pandemic. 2018, probably? Sometime around then. The pandemic certainly changed habits and I don't think they are ever going back -- but the trend was visible long before that point - the pandemic just pushed it over the edge, that's all.So you might be right about that.From a Hasbro exec's position, I would personally take great umbrage at Tactical Adventures and Solasta under the OGL. It hasn't exactly been a smash hit -- but Solasta is a game that if I were at WotC, I would see that as using MY DAMN IP FOR FREE -- and I would not be okay with that if I were at WotC.  That would move the needle, for me. To be clear, I am not saying the publisher of Solasta has done anything legally wrong (great game!) but in terms of an emotional, visceral reaction? That would be a stone in my shoe if I were an exec at WotC/Hasbro, no doubt about that.I don't know if Foundry VTT creates the same feeling  -- and I am certainly of the view that it should not engender grievances at WotC if it does. Foundry VTT seems like it's been a bottle of nitro in the tank of DDB. It's not as if a good chunk of those Foundry sales have no beneficial effect on WotC revenue -- they surely do -- and more than any royalty on a one-time $50 purchase, too. I have spent ... more than $300 this year on DDB - solely because of Foundry VTT. That's a fair bit of coin in WotC's pockets at a marginal cost to them of SFA.But in terms of product positioning going forward? You may well be right. We will see soon enough, I guess.</blockquote>

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