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<blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 8912451" data-attributes="member: 19857">The streamers can easily move to other games. Any other ttrpg company that isn't WotC[*] wouldn't think to try to treat them as someone who owes them money to play their game online. That's a very video game company attitude. I'd be surprised if WotC got any money from streamers because it is so easy to just switch to another system - even if you're leery of moving to a system like Pathfinder or 13th Age with ties to Wizards SRD, jumping to an unencumbered system like Dungeon World or Runequest isn't going to be hard.And according to my kid the YouTube D&amp;D folks they watch are definitely talking about jumping ship. My kid spent part of yesterday watching videos about Pathfinder, going through my Pathfinder 2e rulebook and trying out making a character with the system. They've never really been interested in running anything but 5e before but now they're checking out options to see what's out there because of all of this mess.&nbsp; (They like a lot of what they heard about Pathfinder btw - the extra modularity is interesting to them, but they are worried that it's a bit rules-heavy for group of friends who they play with - they're all very casual about the game and don't get into the rules much themselves).[*} I mean, maybe also Palladium. Not sure where they are now, but I could see old-school Palladium being the kind of company that would get very protective of their game being streamed online.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jer, post: 8912451, member: 19857"] The streamers can easily move to other games. Any other ttrpg company that isn't WotC[*] wouldn't think to try to treat them as someone who owes them money to play their game online. That's a very video game company attitude. I'd be surprised if WotC got any money from streamers because it is so easy to just switch to another system - even if you're leery of moving to a system like Pathfinder or 13th Age with ties to Wizards SRD, jumping to an unencumbered system like Dungeon World or Runequest isn't going to be hard. And according to my kid the YouTube D&D folks they watch are definitely talking about jumping ship. My kid spent part of yesterday watching videos about Pathfinder, going through my Pathfinder 2e rulebook and trying out making a character with the system. They've never really been interested in running anything but 5e before but now they're checking out options to see what's out there because of all of this mess. (They like a lot of what they heard about Pathfinder btw - the extra modularity is interesting to them, but they are worried that it's a bit rules-heavy for group of friends who they play with - they're all very casual about the game and don't get into the rules much themselves). [*} I mean, maybe also Palladium. Not sure where they are now, but I could see old-school Palladium being the kind of company that would get very protective of their game being streamed online. [/QUOTE]

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