They could package the books or at least wrap them.
If the wrapping is damaged in the store the dealer can scan the book code and thus cancel any digital content as a non sale.
thus they could sell the bundle for just 10 bucks more than the physical book instead of what they charge just for the digital content here.
Or they could just charge 10 bucks for the digital content.
Lower prices with no or very little overhead mean far more sales and profit.
So, you want to put someone making minimum wage at B&N or a FLGS in charge of policing it? I can’t see a lot of stores willing to take that on. They have their own work to do without becoming quality control for a different company.
They could lower prices for digital, but then where will the money come from to maintain the website? And I don’t see it leading to any more sales. People share books, why would I spend even $1 when I can “borrow” it free from my DM?
Again, they tried a bundle. At this point, we’ll just have to see how it goes. They haven’t announced anything about another one going forward, but probably they’re learning lessons from Dragonlance, and deciding if they can improve their systems or if it’s not worth it to try again. If they liked it, I could see them doing another one or two later this year, with the real goal being getting their ducks in a row before 1D&D. I’d bet that one, between print, digital and the VTT will have some bundle options.
Just wrapping the books and/or putting a scratch off cover over the code would cover most of it. Keep in mind the stores want to make a sale too, so they’re motivated to prevent people messing with the merchandise, and just making it take a minute or two ought to discourage a lot of people from trying it.
The stores might want to make a sale, but the employees get paid the same no matter what, and don’t much care. Do you really see them checking the game section a few times a day because one publisher has a product that makes extra work for them? Do you see the store manager making sure their staff is watching that one shelf, when there’s a store full of books and other media getting shoplifted. Also, having worked in a book store, management doesn’t much care if it gets damaged. They’ll just return it to the publisher and get a new copy, while the publisher eats the cost. We had lots of gimmick books with little sealed envelopes, or pull out maps. That stuff always went missing.
And, people want to look at books. Yes, us on here will go in and buy them, but people like to flip through the pages before they buy. Especially parents who want to see what their kids are getting into.
Bundles direct from Wizards are really the better answer if they can figure out the shipping. Or, maybe going from the other end, where if you buy it digital, they send you a coupon for a print copy, that’s probably a lot more feasible, as most stores already know how to process coupons.
Online is a different experience, but “hollow shell” is rather melodramatic, speaking as someone who’s played both ways. VTT has a lot of convenient features, particularly when it comes to running a board.
While they might try to go all digital, it will be a blip in the long history, due mostly to certain socioeconomic dynamics in play already seen over the years.
if 50 bucks a book is the new go to, and I am really iffy about that, then digital will make the most sense, esp. if the thinking is under monetized. Digital is cheaper, faster to market, and more fluid. It will lower the barriers to entry, which is a major issue that has in the past been a problem and still underlies why so many newer players get their first sets as a birthday or Christmas present.
granted, the cost is in line with current costs for printing and a 30% profit for small runs, so if that is a new price point it will drive sales to their own stores if they offer it cheaper, and will cut out the game- and bookstore markets.
but if they wall the garden, even those techno dependent folks will move, and others will be lost because the barrier to entry will be higher. And that will impact market share and boost competitors, which will *really* mean that folks will just keep playing 5e. Even if only through the SRD. And that entire ecosystem will continue much like it did during the 4e years.
doesn’t mean it won’t happen, just that if they try it, they will hurt the branding and market and have to back off.
I am still using things from 1e, and I still even have things like Paranoia, so I think it will be just fine.
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i also like what ive seen so far in the ONE DND character species and classes. however the " DND becoming virtual" i dont like. ( watch ONE DNDS new VTT is BAD for DND heres why. thats on youtube
I agree with you
D&D is not becoming virtual it was already virtual. Fantasy Grounds, Roll20, d20pro, Maptool and whole host of other VTTs over the years. while the VTT that WotC is making might be bad the realm of VTT's as a whole is not bad.
while i do enjoy dnd beyond, i do know how to do the pen and paper. I'm not a spring chicken anymore I find carrying a tablet with the books in it a lot easier to carry than physical books to the game.
While I can do a character up in 5 minutes on beyond, it takes 15 - 20 min pen and paper maybe a bit longer when helping a new person. and it makes explaining to new people how the game works when i can show them the book,
while i do like having some of the hard copy books i expect that soon everything will go digital, and hard bound books will be a thing of the past.
while i do enjoy dnd beyond, i do know how to do the pen and paper. I'm not a spring chicken anymore I find carrying a tablet with the books in it a lot easier to carry than physical books to the game.
While I can do a character up in 5 minutes on beyond, it takes 15 - 20 min pen and paper maybe a bit longer when helping a new person. and it makes explaining to new people how the game works when i can show them the book,
while i do like having some of the hard copy books i expect that soon everything will go digital, and hard bound books will be a thing of the past.
I like being able to share them digitally. Most of my players are four hours away by car (or more) and I am a tad bit luckier than they are money wise right now, so being able to share them through a campaign even if we have no other use for it is cool.
I have many iPads — enough that I have almost one for every player, and zoom or teams and a tripod allows me to do a lot. And my three main ones still weigh less than the hardcovers.
I expect a shift to paperbacks again, long before they stop the printing. And these days, I figure I will be dead before that happens, lol
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Declaring D&D to be completely digital is to assume MONOPOLY, SUDOKU, or crossword puzzles and other pen and paper, table-top games will be all digital.
"They could lower prices for digital, but then where will the money come from to maintain the website? And I don’t see it leading to any more sales. People share books, why would I spend even $1 when I can “borrow” it free from my DM?"
They could just take away your ability to share your purchased content. You ONLY bought the rights to access the digital content on line. Its sort of like a car lease. They can take it back when ever they want.
They could just lower the price per digital copy so more people (players not DM's) could by all the books they need.
Ads alone could cover the cost of data transfer for them.
melee masters - They are masters of weapons or unarmed combat can be wrestlers or drunk fist masters
long range - masters of RANGED WEAPONS or THROWN WEAPONS have greater perception and great accuracy at long range attacks
casters - they are experts of magic or alchemy or transmutation
divine - there power is gifted from a divine source good or evil warning this can change alignment at level 1
support - they support provide aid protect and are skill at more things than most classes but sacrifice expertise to be better at everything else
healer - healers are experts of healing magic, alchemy or negative healing (some undead heal by negative energy), they have the skill to boost healing and make more potions or elixirs than common
tank- whether by dex natural ac con or resistance, you are focused to tank damage as a method to distract or impede enemies from attacking your allies, your expert at intercepting attacks (pick 1 intercept at melee range or intercept ballistics)
armor pen - your expert at piercing thru natural defenses, resistances or armor. You learned of ways to makes your piecing weapons to pierce deeper and be sharper and cause bleed or internal damage to undead or constructs( pick 1 grant 1 weapon a day ARMOR PEN or Craft specialize in items that can pierce thru (pick 1 armor, resistances or 1 immunity nullifier)
field control - You control the field to deter enemies or support allies by altering the field providing cover or controlling disadvantages by altering dim light brightness or darkness. you can concentrate on 2 Non damaging field control spells.
crafter or constructer - you start as a expert in crafting as good as alchemists or artificers and you can craft spellscrolls or spell tattoos or craft traps you can quickly deploy with invisible enhanced mage hand for the sole purpose to set up trap action cost to setup a medium trap and bonus or reaction to setupt small traps (you can craft light or medium lesser arcane armor but you only get half the armor benefits of armorer artificer)
every class and subclass can any of this roles and the classes dont restrict the roles bonuses and expertise
yes wizard can be a crafter and use his familiar to setup small traps
yes barbarian can be caster They starts with 2 cantrips 1 cantrip is a spell attack cantrip and any 1 lv spell both must be of the same spell list, they heighten in rage but lose half there range in rage. Spell sniper doesnt double the range of spell attack spells with barbarian but it does add rage damage to spell. Yes your spell casting focus is strength or dexterity for barbarian.
melee masters
Strength or dex is locked at base 18 ability stat, and increases to 19 at lv4, 20 at lv8 21 at lv12, 22 at lv16, 24 at lv 20 with every martial class. ANY OTHER CLASS NOT MARTIAL GET 19 str or dex at lv10 and 20 str or dex at lv 20.
Martial classes are experts with weapons ADD DOUBLE PB TO ATTACK ROLLS AND DAMAGE ROLLS BUT At lv4 HALF WEAPON DAMAGE IS MAGICAL DAMAGE AND HALF IS NON MAGICAL DAMAGE.
IF BARBARIAN OR PALADIN HEAVY WEAPONS ARE ALSO CONSIDERED LIGHT WEAPONS
MONK GAINS KI WEAPONS INFUSE WEAPONS WITH KI TO GAN +1 to attack and damage cost and REMOVE HEAVY TRAIT AND TWO HANDED TRAIT FROM WEAPON AND YOUR PROFICIENT WITH IMPROVISED WEAPONS (MONKS CAN TREAT NATURAL WEAPONS AS ANY IMPROVISED WEAPONS THAT MAKE SENSE WITH THERE NATURAL ANATOMY, LIKE A TALON CAN BE A DAGGER OR CLAW CAN BE A DART)
Melee masters can become prone proof or expend prone proof to stealth military combat crawl adds +5 to Stealth
FOR HEALER 2 times a day you can sacrifice half resistance or half ac to gain 5hp regen a action You can hold regen to pool regen hp to heal any number of allies
"HEXED CURSED melee master" lose half strength score or half dex score to grow to large class OR SHRINK to small (if small already you become tiny) damage with weapon roll increases with your size and you roll weapon damage die twice when you hit.(YES THIS BUFF TO BATTLERAGGER AND MONK DICE DAMAGE) this hexed curse lasts 2 hours
HexCURSED PERSISTENT YOU SACRIFICE 2 SIZE CLASSES FOR STRENGTH (only become tiny if already small or medium) you DOUBLE YOUR STRENGTH MODIFIER Your twice as heavy in density and lose 10ft of movement. (YES TINY STRONG WIZARDS ARE HILARIOUS WHEN THEY MOUNT ONTOP OF THERE FAMILIARS OR YES COMPANIONS OR FAMILIARS CAN GET 1 size bigger buff and double there strength modifier to the minimum of change of +2str mod)
YOU ONLY GET ONE ROLE EXPERTISE PER PC NO MATTER WHAT CLASS or multiclass YOU PICK WITH IT.
THIS WAS MELEE MASTER ROLE
First, it’s not necessary to use ALL CAPS so much, it’s hard to take you seriously. Second, I think everything you posted (quoted above) would be a horrible idea and is definitely not the way WotC is going to go from the UA we’ve seen so far. It doesn’t even feel like D&D to me.
I don’t. What I have seen so far is a joke. This is just to get people to spend more money, the recent book releases combined with the UA shows no clear vision, no quality control and no effort beyond ‘lets see how much money we can milk before the gravy train come to an end’.
i think that dnd 5e was pretty good. but now with "ONE DND" they are trying to make more money. make it digital, have people probabaly pay for a million digital minifigure cloths, poses etc. and remaking all the core rule books. like bruh.
So far 1D&D feels like a 5.5E edition with “improvements” based partly on our feedback in the surveys. The base game still functions basically the same.
As far as the money grab you are worried about with the VTT unless they force you to use their VTT and force you to spend money on miniature clothing, poses, etc I don’t think you have too much to worry about. My group has been playing on VTT for several years with players in different states in the group. We use Roll20 and plan on staying there. When I played 1E AD&D in the early 80’s we used pennies and plastic poker chips for monsters so I don’t see myself paying for a digital mini and it’s clothes and poses.
But it still remains to be seen what WotC will do with the VTT. I hope they learned their lesson with the OGL debacle.
I don’t. What I have seen so far is a joke. This is just to get people to spend more money, the recent book releases combined with the UA shows no clear vision, no quality control and no effort beyond ‘lets see how much money we can milk before the gravy train come to an end’.
i think that dnd 5e was pretty good. but now with "ONE DND" they are trying to make more money. make it digital, have people probabaly pay for a million digital minifigure cloths, poses etc. and remaking all the core rule books. like bruh.
Dear lord, they're trying to make more money?! How very dare they!
That's not all-- they're remaking the core rule books! It's not like they've ever done that before, this is completely unheard of!
Egads! Now they're even trying to give a high quality option for a type of playing that has become exceedingly popular in recent years. WHEN WILL THIS MADNESS STOP!?!
Like, seriously, all of your complaints seem like positive things.
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Look at what you've done. You spoiled it. You have nobody to blame but yourself. Go sit and think about your actions.
Don't be mean. Rudeness is a vicious cycle, and it has to stop somewhere. Exceptions for things that are funny. Go to the current Competition of the Finest 'Brews! It's a cool place where cool people make cool things.
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I don’t. What I have seen so far is a joke. This is just to get people to spend more money, the recent book releases combined with the UA shows no clear vision, no quality control and no effort beyond ‘lets see how much money we can milk before the gravy train come to an end’.
i think that dnd 5e was pretty good. but now with "ONE DND" they are trying to make more money. make it digital, have people probabaly pay for a million digital minifigure cloths, poses etc. and remaking all the core rule books. like bruh.
Dear lord, they're trying to make more money?! How very dare they!
That's not all-- they're remaking the core rule books! It's not like they've ever done that before, this is completely unheard of!
Egads! Now they're even trying to give a high quality option for a type of playing that has become exceedingly popular in recent years. WHEN WILL THIS MADNESS STOP!?!
Like, seriously, all of your complaints seem like positive things.
they make enough money right now. they dont need to increase profit.
Listen. Buddy. That's not how businesses work.
And I don't see how you expect them to make a new edition without making new books. Whether or not it's backwards compatible seems irrelevant.
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Look at what you've done. You spoiled it. You have nobody to blame but yourself. Go sit and think about your actions.
Don't be mean. Rudeness is a vicious cycle, and it has to stop somewhere. Exceptions for things that are funny. Go to the current Competition of the Finest 'Brews! It's a cool place where cool people make cool things.
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is there a forum where the developers talk and we can talk
I think WotC should start doing a lot more player research before they press on with 6E before they have another problem on their hands. Also they can come straight on what 6E is, is it really backwards compatible? What does that mean? Will there be a new PHB, MM, DMG other books?
first of all everything that you will probably have to pay for: minis, maps, spells, classes, backrounds, feats, customization to maps and minis. what if they cant give you what you want? want starry walls? oops! we dont have that! think of another idea! yeah we have brown walls! buy those! they only cost 15$ and only another 5$ to put them onto the walls. want to make custom worlds? only pay 20 bucks a month! listen if VTT on becomes super popular, DNDS gonna be EXSPENSIVE.
No. Wizards won't and can't price everything up drastically and make D&D as expensive as possible. This would completely destroy the game, and despite the fact that people have been talking about how D&D is being ruined and will die soon for the last 50 years, it's still going stronger than ever.
You may believe that Wizards of the Coast is evil, but they aren't stupid. There is no way that they would make random wall paper products, make you pay for all of your classes feats and backgrounds individually, and make you pay $20+ dollars a month to play the game. Your whole post sounds like it's echoing D&D Shorts' sentiment, and that guy just isn't really trustworthy at all at this point.
Wizards of the Coast is a for-profit corporation. Like almost all companies, they want money. That being said, it is extremely unlikely that they'll do any of the things you mentioned.
As a side note, this thread has gotten really off-topic. It was originally meant to be a discussion about what people would like to see in classes for the next edition, not a place to attack Wizards of the Coast over handling of the Open Game License and monetization situations.
They could package the books or at least wrap them.
If the wrapping is damaged in the store the dealer can scan the book code and thus cancel any digital content as a non sale.
thus they could sell the bundle for just 10 bucks more than the physical book instead of what they charge just for the digital content here.
Or they could just charge 10 bucks for the digital content.
Lower prices with no or very little overhead mean far more sales and profit.
So, you want to put someone making minimum wage at B&N or a FLGS in charge of policing it? I can’t see a lot of stores willing to take that on. They have their own work to do without becoming quality control for a different company.
They could lower prices for digital, but then where will the money come from to maintain the website? And I don’t see it leading to any more sales. People share books, why would I spend even $1 when I can “borrow” it free from my DM?
Again, they tried a bundle. At this point, we’ll just have to see how it goes. They haven’t announced anything about another one going forward, but probably they’re learning lessons from Dragonlance, and deciding if they can improve their systems or if it’s not worth it to try again. If they liked it, I could see them doing another one or two later this year, with the real goal being getting their ducks in a row before 1D&D. I’d bet that one, between print, digital and the VTT will have some bundle options.
Just wrapping the books and/or putting a scratch off cover over the code would cover most of it. Keep in mind the stores want to make a sale too, so they’re motivated to prevent people messing with the merchandise, and just making it take a minute or two ought to discourage a lot of people from trying it.
The stores might want to make a sale, but the employees get paid the same no matter what, and don’t much care. Do you really see them checking the game section a few times a day because one publisher has a product that makes extra work for them? Do you see the store manager making sure their staff is watching that one shelf, when there’s a store full of books and other media getting shoplifted.
Also, having worked in a book store, management doesn’t much care if it gets damaged. They’ll just return it to the publisher and get a new copy, while the publisher eats the cost. We had lots of gimmick books with little sealed envelopes, or pull out maps. That stuff always went missing.
And, people want to look at books. Yes, us on here will go in and buy them, but people like to flip through the pages before they buy. Especially parents who want to see what their kids are getting into.
Bundles direct from Wizards are really the better answer if they can figure out the shipping. Or, maybe going from the other end, where if you buy it digital, they send you a coupon for a print copy, that’s probably a lot more feasible, as most stores already know how to process coupons.
That’s rather extreme, but I doubt they’re gonna stop the presses anytime soon.
Online is a different experience, but “hollow shell” is rather melodramatic, speaking as someone who’s played both ways. VTT has a lot of convenient features, particularly when it comes to running a board.
While they might try to go all digital, it will be a blip in the long history, due mostly to certain socioeconomic dynamics in play already seen over the years.
if 50 bucks a book is the new go to, and I am really iffy about that, then digital will make the most sense, esp. if the thinking is under monetized. Digital is cheaper, faster to market, and more fluid. It will lower the barriers to entry, which is a major issue that has in the past been a problem and still underlies why so many newer players get their first sets as a birthday or Christmas present.
granted, the cost is in line with current costs for printing and a 30% profit for small runs, so if that is a new price point it will drive sales to their own stores if they offer it cheaper, and will cut out the game- and bookstore markets.
but if they wall the garden, even those techno dependent folks will move, and others will be lost because the barrier to entry will be higher. And that will impact market share and boost competitors, which will *really* mean that folks will just keep playing 5e. Even if only through the SRD. And that entire ecosystem will continue much like it did during the 4e years.
doesn’t mean it won’t happen, just that if they try it, they will hurt the branding and market and have to back off.
I am still using things from 1e, and I still even have things like Paranoia, so I think it will be just fine.
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D&D is not becoming virtual it was already virtual. Fantasy Grounds, Roll20, d20pro, Maptool and whole host of other VTTs over the years. while the VTT that WotC is making might be bad the realm of VTT's as a whole is not bad.
while i do enjoy dnd beyond, i do know how to do the pen and paper. I'm not a spring chicken anymore I find carrying a tablet with the books in it a lot easier to carry than physical books to the game.
While I can do a character up in 5 minutes on beyond, it takes 15 - 20 min pen and paper maybe a bit longer when helping a new person. and it makes explaining to new people how the game works when i can show them the book,
while i do like having some of the hard copy books i expect that soon everything will go digital, and hard bound books will be a thing of the past.
While I do believe that one day D&D will be digital only, but it is not this day (or the next edition).
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I like being able to share them digitally. Most of my players are four hours away by car (or more) and I am a tad bit luckier than they are money wise right now, so being able to share them through a campaign even if we have no other use for it is cool.
I have many iPads — enough that I have almost one for every player, and zoom or teams and a tripod allows me to do a lot. And my three main ones still weigh less than the hardcovers.
I expect a shift to paperbacks again, long before they stop the printing. And these days, I figure I will be dead before that happens, lol
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Declaring D&D to be completely digital is to assume MONOPOLY, SUDOKU, or crossword puzzles and other pen and paper, table-top games will be all digital.
This kind of thinking lacks foresight.
about 20 - 25 years it will all be digital, but by then I'll be gone or in a senior center.
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"They could lower prices for digital, but then where will the money come from to maintain the website? And I don’t see it leading to any more sales. People share books, why would I spend even $1 when I can “borrow” it free from my DM?"
They could just take away your ability to share your purchased content. You ONLY bought the rights to access the digital content on line. Its sort of like a car lease. They can take it back when ever they want.
They could just lower the price per digital copy so more people (players not DM's) could by all the books they need.
Ads alone could cover the cost of data transfer for them.
First, it’s not necessary to use ALL CAPS so much, it’s hard to take you seriously.
Second, I think everything you posted (quoted above) would be a horrible idea and is definitely not the way WotC is going to go from the UA we’ve seen so far. It doesn’t even feel like D&D to me.
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So far 1D&D feels like a 5.5E edition with “improvements” based partly on our feedback in the surveys. The base game still functions basically the same.
As far as the money grab you are worried about with the VTT unless they force you to use their VTT and force you to spend money on miniature clothing, poses, etc I don’t think you have too much to worry about. My group has been playing on VTT for several years with players in different states in the group. We use Roll20 and plan on staying there. When I played 1E AD&D in the early 80’s we used pennies and plastic poker chips for monsters so I don’t see myself paying for a digital mini and it’s clothes and poses.
But it still remains to be seen what WotC will do with the VTT. I hope they learned their lesson with the OGL debacle.
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Dear lord, they're trying to make more money?! How very dare they!
That's not all-- they're remaking the core rule books! It's not like they've ever done that before, this is completely unheard of!
Egads! Now they're even trying to give a high quality option for a type of playing that has become exceedingly popular in recent years. WHEN WILL THIS MADNESS STOP!?!
Like, seriously, all of your complaints seem like positive things.
Look at what you've done. You spoiled it. You have nobody to blame but yourself. Go sit and think about your actions.
Don't be mean. Rudeness is a vicious cycle, and it has to stop somewhere. Exceptions for things that are funny.
Go to the current Competition of the Finest 'Brews! It's a cool place where cool people make cool things.
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Listen. Buddy. That's not how businesses work.
And I don't see how you expect them to make a new edition without making new books. Whether or not it's backwards compatible seems irrelevant.
Look at what you've done. You spoiled it. You have nobody to blame but yourself. Go sit and think about your actions.
Don't be mean. Rudeness is a vicious cycle, and it has to stop somewhere. Exceptions for things that are funny.
Go to the current Competition of the Finest 'Brews! It's a cool place where cool people make cool things.
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I think WotC should start doing a lot more player research before they press on with 6E before they have another problem on their hands. Also they can come straight on what 6E is, is it really backwards compatible? What does that mean? Will there be a new PHB, MM, DMG other books?
No. Wizards won't and can't price everything up drastically and make D&D as expensive as possible. This would completely destroy the game, and despite the fact that people have been talking about how D&D is being ruined and will die soon for the last 50 years, it's still going stronger than ever.
You may believe that Wizards of the Coast is evil, but they aren't stupid. There is no way that they would make random wall paper products, make you pay for all of your classes feats and backgrounds individually, and make you pay $20+ dollars a month to play the game. Your whole post sounds like it's echoing D&D Shorts' sentiment, and that guy just isn't really trustworthy at all at this point.
Wizards of the Coast is a for-profit corporation. Like almost all companies, they want money. That being said, it is extremely unlikely that they'll do any of the things you mentioned.
As a side note, this thread has gotten really off-topic. It was originally meant to be a discussion about what people would like to see in classes for the next edition, not a place to attack Wizards of the Coast over handling of the Open Game License and monetization situations.
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