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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scribe" data-source="post: 8896214" data-attributes="member: 6807152">This tweet [USER=6778210]@Justice and Rule[/USER] is exactly what I've come around to as the problem for Wizards, and why they felt they needed to reign everyone in.D&D 'brand' is basically a poorly defined mess, at best, and they actively have THROWN OUT or disavowed the very history that made it what it is.The OGL protected content is not a brand.The SRD is not a brand.They actively disavowed their backlog of lore/canon.They have no meaningfully defining art style or direction.They simply go where the wind blows.They have ACTIVELY enabled, requested, and essentially mandated that gaps in the game are filled by 3PP.And then in the end, they sat back and said...wait. Just hold on a second here."We have no through line canon, no story. Our art is safe, generic, Fantasy art that you can find on DeviantArt. Our game makes no defining statement on...pretty much any kind of topic, so as to appeal to the widest range of people possible....what exactly makes D&D...anything but Solasta?!"And thats not to dunk on Solasta either!What actually does Wizards own? A name. They have willfully abdicated on the rest. So when people say "This is Wizards going out to protect their brand!" What does that actually mean?They dont have a brand. They have a name. They have several rule sets of various shades of common mechanics and terms.They gave up the rest long ago, and thats a problem, if you want to break into other media platforms.Now if anyone cares to refute this...What is the D&D Brand?</blockquote>

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