So, as a DM I have seen a few things that just guarantee I and my neither need your products nor desire them. You’ve killed the proverbial goose that laid the golden egg and cooked the carcass. A little back ground I volunteer as a DM for a community program. I see a bunch of players, veterans and neophytes alike. My players have been given the option to pick legacy or the new races, they can bring any book or share any product on DnDBeyond we’ve had everything from the oldest to the newest books. Without fail people chosen legacy over the new races. No one has been comfortable with species, those who have spoken up say it feel demeaning, the consensus is ‘species’ is for animals not people. My mixed race players find the changes particularly insulting. The inability of new players to get their own legacy digital copies of things in books of kills their interest, and most recently I was was unable to get the legacy lizardfolk neither as partial purchase nor the volo book. The ability to buy parts of books that count towards buying the whole was one of your biggest selling point, but you killed that. Your arrogant colonialistic attitude has put a bitter taste in the mouth of potential players when they come upon Mexican orcs their disgusted by the racism, the changes from the traditional orcs, both, or they can’t tell me between bouts of laughing 🤣. Maybe we’re the exception, but from the DM chair of this table you have undermined every pillar that made you desirable in what appears to be a pitiful attempt to pander. Well, you’ve unmade the things that made the game interesting, accessible, and fun in an attempt to get more golden eggs and now people want to try other TTRPGs. How did you manage to burn all the bridges in only a few short years. The D&D movie you just had was perfect, it was both great as a D&D story and as a movie, better than most movies I have seen in half a decade. It would have been a blockbuster if you hadn’t tried to kill the OGL. You made one of your biggest and free advertisers change games with critical role.
If you want to revive the game you’re going to have to fire some bad actors hire some good ones, and get people who play the game to make decisions based on what they enjoyed out of the game instead of what people who have never enjoyed it think will get them money. First thing I learned in marketing if you won’t buy the product you’re making a scam not a product. So, make a product you are willing to pay for, if you’re buying what you’re selling you something tells me you weren’t doing so before these changes. Make the product that was selling and market the new product as something else not something that makes people feel like you’re trying to force them to pay you.
Well, like I said you’ve killed the goose, and I hope you come to loath the taste. Because you’re now undermining our ability to use the products and services we’ve been forced to revaluate the cost in time and money and you’re currently in a deficit, we can make our games and races for far less and use more enjoyable systems with less time and frustration. Maybe you’ll have the wisdom to sell it off to someone while it still has the name recognition to be worth salvaging, or if somehow you have the backbone and willingness for hard work, but haven’t exercised it already for some unfathomable reason, then you can make the staff and policy changes necessary to rebuild the OG of TTRPGs.
That is the perspective of a DM for a massive and multicultural gaming table. I’m sure there are other POVs perfectly valid, perhaps some are similar, some may be diametrically opposed. I welcome all, but ask if you have a contention keep it to the ideas and product, don’t call out individual staff under WotC/Hasbro or other posters. We’ll want to be civil.
So, as a DM I have seen a few things that just guarantee I and my neither need your products nor desire them. You’ve killed the proverbial goose that laid the golden egg and cooked the carcass. A little back ground I volunteer as a DM for a community program. I see a bunch of players, veterans and neophytes alike. My players have been given the option to pick legacy or the new races, they can bring any book or share any product on DnDBeyond we’ve had everything from the oldest to the newest books. Without fail people chosen legacy over the new races. No one has been comfortable with species, those who have spoken up say it feel demeaning, the consensus is ‘species’ is for animals not people. My mixed race players find the changes particularly insulting. The inability of new players to get their own legacy digital copies of things in books of kills their interest, and most recently I was was unable to get the legacy lizardfolk neither as partial purchase nor the volo book. The ability to buy parts of books that count towards buying the whole was one of your biggest selling point, but you killed that. Your arrogant colonialistic attitude has put a bitter taste in the mouth of potential players when they come upon Mexican orcs their disgusted by the racism, the changes from the traditional orcs, both, or they can’t tell me between bouts of laughing 🤣. Maybe we’re the exception, but from the DM chair of this table you have undermined every pillar that made you desirable in what appears to be a pitiful attempt to pander. Well, you’ve unmade the things that made the game interesting, accessible, and fun in an attempt to get more golden eggs and now people want to try other TTRPGs. How did you manage to burn all the bridges in only a few short years. The D&D movie you just had was perfect, it was both great as a D&D story and as a movie, better than most movies I have seen in half a decade. It would have been a blockbuster if you hadn’t tried to kill the OGL. You made one of your biggest and free advertisers change games with critical role.
If you want to revive the game you’re going to have to fire some bad actors hire some good ones, and get people who play the game to make decisions based on what they enjoyed out of the game instead of what people who have never enjoyed it think will get them money. First thing I learned in marketing if you won’t buy the product you’re making a scam not a product. So, make a product you are willing to pay for, if you’re buying what you’re selling you something tells me you weren’t doing so before these changes. Make the product that was selling and market the new product as something else not something that makes people feel like you’re trying to force them to pay you.
Well, like I said you’ve killed the goose, and I hope you come to loath the taste. Because you’re now undermining our ability to use the products and services we’ve been forced to revaluate the cost in time and money and you’re currently in a deficit, we can make our games and races for far less and use more enjoyable systems with less time and frustration. Maybe you’ll have the wisdom to sell it off to someone while it still has the name recognition to be worth salvaging, or if somehow you have the backbone and willingness for hard work, but haven’t exercised it already for some unfathomable reason, then you can make the staff and policy changes necessary to rebuild the OG of TTRPGs.
That is the perspective of a DM for a massive and multicultural gaming table. I’m sure there are other POVs perfectly valid, perhaps some are similar, some may be diametrically opposed. I welcome all, but ask if you have a contention keep it to the ideas and product, don’t call out individual staff under WotC/Hasbro or other posters. We’ll want to be civil.
My Brews:
Race: Tropical Dwaves Spells: Summon Spirits Rites of Mummification
Monster: Osprey Feat: Skill Mastery–Animal Handler (Provides DCs for training animals applicable to those with and without this feat)