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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Orius" data-source="post: 6155552" data-attributes="member: 8863">Wyatt and Mearls are talking about the same thing this week for some reason.  Here's my response from the L&L thread so i don't have to type it all out again:That's not what I read from the column.  Sounds like they're establishing a vanilla baseline for core which will be used in FR, but not necessarily Dark Sun or another setting.  He also specifically stated this doesn't necessarily apply to homebrews.This does look like branding, and upon reflection, it doesn't necessarily seem like a bad thing.  We've talked in the past about how Hasbro has $50M and $100M brand.  D&D though isn't big enough to be a $50M brand with just the tabletop game.  It doesn't sell the same way as a toy or mainstream boardgame brand.  It's still a valuable IP for licensing, though, and I think that's where the bigger profits can come from.  Having a consistant brand helps to avoid crap like the infamous D&D movie, which should be generally positive.That DM should turn in his DM card!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" />  Sounds like some good player paranoia there to exploit.  I'd just give the players an evil grin, they'd assume that means there's a hag waiting to ambush them immediately when there's no such thing in the adventure and they'd spend the rest of the session wondering when it's going to strike.  I of course would do absolutely nothing to disabuse them of the notion and just sit behind the screen evilly chuckling about it.Now this approach doesn't bother me.</blockquote>

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