D&D General WotC is at it again

[mamba]

And people think this is unfair? And this is more evidence of how WotC is "at it again"? Did I miss something?

the fact that it was a single person, not 'people'?

 

[dave2008]

The bigger deal, I think, is WOTC adding arbitration to settle disputes into the license. Arbitration almost always favors their client (in this case WOTC) and can be used in any lawsuit between the company with the TOS and a client who accepts it. In one recent case, someone died at one of the Disney resorts and Disney claimed it had to go through arbitration because the victim had signed up to Disney +. That ended up changing but not due to legal issues but to PR issues when that came to light.

IANAL and I don't know the full details of the arbitration clause in the DDB TOS but it might be used in a dispute, for example, between a publisher and WOTC if the publisher had signed up for a D&D Beyond account. That could get pretty nasty I think.

You can read it here:

Wizards — General Terms

www.dndbeyond.com

Section 19 and 20. You can opt out of this 30 days after you agree to it.

IANAL and I don't have the specific details but that might be an issue with the recent license update.

From what I hear (on this very thread) publishes have a separate license with WotC when they put things on DnD Beyond. This forum license has nothing to do with what a publisher puts on DnDB