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<blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 9606794" data-attributes="member: 8461"><a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/phil-edwards-the-secret-economics-of-dungeons-dragons.712203/" target="_blank">It has been.</a>I mean, I suppose it's good to know what the &quot;normies&quot; think of the hobby, but what I noticed most were the errors and omissions. I'm honestly not sure who this video is for, because anyone who's tuned into the community already knows most (if not all) of what he's going to say, and anyone who doesn't know anything about this topic is going to be lost when he starts talking about things like the OGL while giving almost no context. I guess that makes this for casual D&amp;D fans?I'm going to disagree here too. I've seen a lot of gaming-related paraphernalia for quite a few years now (gaming candles, for instance, have been at Gen Con for several years), and while the idea of combining professional GMing with craft brewing is new to me, I'm not sure how it's more noteworthy than &quot;dry&quot; professional GMing (though to be fair, I have no use for professional GMs either way).Only barely. Don't go looking to this video for much in the way of insight or analysis. I mean, it's great that he gave some airtime to Bob Tarantino, the lawyer who wrote the <a href="https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/phd/58/" target="_blank">truly excellent dissertation</a> on the positive impact of the OGL on the gaming community, but otherwise there doesn't seem to be much of substance here.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Alzrius, post: 9606794, member: 8461"] [URL='https://www.enworld.org/threads/phil-edwards-the-secret-economics-of-dungeons-dragons.712203/']It has been.[/URL] I mean, I suppose it's good to know what the "normies" think of the hobby, but what I noticed most were the errors and omissions. I'm honestly not sure who this video is for, because anyone who's tuned into the community already knows most (if not all) of what he's going to say, and anyone who doesn't know anything about this topic is going to be lost when he starts talking about things like the OGL while giving almost no context. I guess that makes this for casual D&D fans? I'm going to disagree here too. I've seen a lot of gaming-related paraphernalia for quite a few years now (gaming candles, for instance, have been at Gen Con for several years), and while the idea of combining professional GMing with craft brewing is new to me, I'm not sure how it's more noteworthy than "dry" professional GMing (though to be fair, I have no use for professional GMs either way). Only barely. Don't go looking to this video for much in the way of insight or analysis. I mean, it's great that he gave some airtime to Bob Tarantino, the lawyer who wrote the [URL='https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/phd/58/']truly excellent dissertation[/URL] on the positive impact of the OGL on the gaming community, but otherwise there doesn't seem to be much of substance here. [/QUOTE]

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