I'm looking forward to it. We already made our points with cancelling subscriptions and general upheaval - the OGL1.1 has been scrapped, and we don't know what they will offer as a replacement. If I refused to spend money on things because a suit in the things owning corporation did something of undoubtedly poor moral and intellectual standing, I would end up naked in the woods eating only foraged foods, and likely die of worms or dysentery because I'd be unable to buy a guide for such survival!
I want wotc to come forward with a reasuring and ironclad solution that gives 3rd party creators peace of mind and protection from this happening again. I want the hobby and game I love to thrive. But in the current turmoil and in its current hands it won't.
All WotC has to do is sign the ORC.
They don't need to do that in order to use it, if it's truly open.
COMICS fans. Surely you understand the difference between a comic book and a movie??
???? We need them to sign it if we're going to publish D&D content under it. Obviously. Without an accompanying SRD, how would anyone know what they could use?? It's to protect us, not them.
Are you sure you understand how any of this works??
1) You think the MCU didn't benefit COMICS fans in any way?
2) If ORC is truly open, WotC does not need to endorse or contribute to it to use it. Nobody does. Yes, you would need to "sign it" (which would mean putting it in whatever book they publish through it, and abiding by its stipulations) but that costs nothing.
1- Marvel comics are garbage. Do you want WotC to focus on making movies or books??
2- Thank you for confirming that you have no clue how this works.
Well. I have cancelled my subscription - so auto-renewal aint gonna happen any more.
But not going to stop there. I have kids. My kids have toys. LOTS´s of toys. Quite a few are Hasbro owned brands. Time to find alternatives to NERF, My little Pony and all the other things they have, and normally wish more off.
Hasbro can gth - its back to LEGO from here on. I suggest ppl. try to do the same - I´m sure your kids will take no permanent harm from trying other things :)
Regarding the ORC, I think you both, Psyren and Backcountry, talk about different things.
Psyren talks about WotC using the ORC, Backcountry about WotC offering D&D within the ORC.
Did I get that right?
WotC is not going to publish content using the ORC. They don't need permission to use thier own things and they aren't going to be publishing content for other systems. They want to crush the competition, not support it.
What they need to do is give permission to 3PP to publish D&D content. They can do this through their own OGL and/or they can sign on to the ORC. This is the sole purpose of the ORC, to give permission to 3PP to publish content for existing games. Each company/game involved will have to provide an SRD detailing exactly what can be used and how.
I have no clue what pysren is talking about and apparently neither do they.
Well. I have cancelled my subscription - so auto-renewal aint gonna happen any more.
But not going to stop there. I have kids. My kids have toys. LOTS´s of toys. Quite a few are Hasbro owned brands. Time to find alternatives to NERF, My little Pony and all the other things they have, and normally wish more off.
Hasbro can gth - its back to LEGO from here on. I suggest ppl. try to do the same - I´m sure your kids will take no permanent harm from trying other things :)
The Filly brand might be a good alternative to the My Little Pony brand.
Well. I have cancelled my subscription - so auto-renewal aint gonna happen any more.
But not going to stop there. I have kids. My kids have toys. LOTS´s of toys. Quite a few are Hasbro owned brands. Time to find alternatives to NERF, My little Pony and all the other things they have, and normally wish more off.
Hasbro can gth - its back to LEGO from here on. I suggest ppl. try to do the same - I´m sure your kids will take no permanent harm from trying other things :)
Dude, Hasbro is a giga-corporation with a near $10,000,000,000 net worth. First off, a refusal to buy stuff they own is pointless; it has such a tiny effect on their worth or profit that it's utterly insignificant. Second, none of that has anything to do with D&D. Third and finally, people generally *should* be buying from smaller and lesser-known brands anyway.
Hasbro (and practically every other huge corporation) literally only exists for the sole and exclusive purpose of monetary gain.
The Monopoly series are amazing; Monopoly: BRIDGERTON edition, Monopoly: Wakanda Forever edition, Monopoly: The Mandalorian edition are just a few titles that caught my eye.
I was going to wait until it was on someplatform I am subscribed to watch it. There is now and still no way in hell I am going to the theater or renting it for money.
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All sales are final on digital via support/tos. Don’t like the changes and practices of Hasbro/WoTC stop paying subs/buying their products. That’s what I am doing now.
The Monopoly series are amazing; Monopoly: BRIDGERTON edition, Monopoly: Wakanda Forever edition, Monopoly: The Mandalorian edition are just a few titles that caught my eye.
Unrelated to D&D but I find it ever ironic how Monopoly was created to make fun of capitalism, but ended up becoming such a huge IP that it's practically a parody of itself by now.
I was going to wait until it was on someplatform I am subscribed to watch it. There is now and still no way in hell I am going to the theater or renting it for money.
The idea that boycotting something would be pointless is one that Hasbro's counting on, and at this point if I don't want to give them another penny for the WotC books then I won't give them another penny for any other DnD thing they bring out. Sure, I'd like to see the movie, and I'm still feeling emotionally tied to DnD and a part of me wants to see something I've loved for years thrive even more. I'm attached, and conflicted, and that is okay. But honestly, there's plenty of great DnD content to watch already, and plenty of it to read, and play. I can do without the movie (or paying to see it), and if it turns out to be a turd I won't feel even more annoyed for paying for a turd.
Boycotting's not some meaningless endeavour and it's not some cancel culture woke lefty snowflake whatever you wanna call it. Like jfc we've just come together to make WotC/Hasbro scramble with pathetic damage control. Community action has impact. And we can turn down 2 hours of cinematic gratification to add single little splinters to the corporate finger.
F*** corporate greed. I may have only pennies but they're my f***ing pennies and the ancient fat dragon's not getting a single one.
I'm looking forward to it. We already made our points with cancelling subscriptions and general upheaval - the OGL1.1 has been scrapped, and we don't know what they will offer as a replacement. If I refused to spend money on things because a suit in the things owning corporation did something of undoubtedly poor moral and intellectual standing, I would end up naked in the woods eating only foraged foods, and likely die of worms or dysentery because I'd be unable to buy a guide for such survival!
Basically this.
Most companies have done some shady stuff to get big. If you boycotted everything that involved somebody putting profit over ethics you'd own next to nothing.
I don't agree with Hasbro/WotC are doing with the OGL but I'm not gonna stop playing D&D. I can play it free. And I am most assuredly, absolutely, going to my fave cinema to watch the D&D movie that I've been waiting for DECADES for and actually looks fun.
The movie being super successful or being a big flop isn't going to have much affect to Hasbro or D&D as a game. And I'm not going to cut my nose off to spite my face all because a greedy company showed it was greedy. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Unrelated to D&D but I find it ever ironic how Monopoly was created to make fun of capitalism, but ended up becoming such a huge IP that it's practically a parody of itself by now.
I understand, however, wouldn't call the Monopoly series a parody.
Perhaps,a variation of the same theme would be more accurate.
There's even a Monopoly: Dungeons & Dragons edition.
I mean, people can boycott/stop buying whatever they want, whenever they want, for whatever damn fool reason they want
Once you shut off your critical thinking though and just blindly follow the mob, it becomes that much easier for someone else to come along and turn your "cause" into a grift, so you end up out the money anyway
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I'm looking forward to it. We already made our points with cancelling subscriptions and general upheaval - the OGL1.1 has been scrapped, and we don't know what they will offer as a replacement. If I refused to spend money on things because a suit in the things owning corporation did something of undoubtedly poor moral and intellectual standing, I would end up naked in the woods eating only foraged foods, and likely die of worms or dysentery because I'd be unable to buy a guide for such survival!
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1- Marvel comics are garbage. Do you want WotC to focus on making movies or books??
2- Thank you for confirming that you have no clue how this works.
Well it is a little stereotypical.
Scads of movies out there with an attractive somewhat petite Latino woman playing a tough as nails knock em all down kick butt person.
And in this case it is the actress who most commonly is in that role
At least we know Michelle Rodriguez is good at this type of part.
1) Opinions are like posteriors, etc.
2) Back at you.
Well. I have cancelled my subscription - so auto-renewal aint gonna happen any more.
But not going to stop there. I have kids. My kids have toys. LOTS´s of toys. Quite a few are Hasbro owned brands. Time to find alternatives to NERF, My little Pony and all the other things they have, and normally wish more off.
Hasbro can gth - its back to LEGO from here on. I suggest ppl. try to do the same - I´m sure your kids will take no permanent harm from trying other things :)
WotC is not going to publish content using the ORC. They don't need permission to use thier own things and they aren't going to be publishing content for other systems. They want to crush the competition, not support it.
What they need to do is give permission to 3PP to publish D&D content. They can do this through their own OGL and/or they can sign on to the ORC. This is the sole purpose of the ORC, to give permission to 3PP to publish content for existing games. Each company/game involved will have to provide an SRD detailing exactly what can be used and how.
I have no clue what pysren is talking about and apparently neither do they.
1- sales figures are irrefutable evidence.
2- I've explained what you don't understand directly above.
The Filly brand might be a good alternative to the My Little Pony brand.
Yo ho yo ho, a pirates life for me.
---eerr-r-r... it's...
♫ Fi - Fiddly - Dee, a pirate's life for me! :)
Dude, Hasbro is a giga-corporation with a near $10,000,000,000 net worth. First off, a refusal to buy stuff they own is pointless; it has such a tiny effect on their worth or profit that it's utterly insignificant. Second, none of that has anything to do with D&D. Third and finally, people generally *should* be buying from smaller and lesser-known brands anyway.
Hasbro (and practically every other huge corporation) literally only exists for the sole and exclusive purpose of monetary gain.
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You said that something is "garbage". That is, objectively and irrefutably, an opinion. Sales figures and opinions are not the same thing.
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Hasbro does release some fantastic board games:
The Monopoly series are amazing; Monopoly: BRIDGERTON edition, Monopoly: Wakanda Forever edition, Monopoly: The Mandalorian edition are just a few titles that caught my eye.
I was going to wait until it was on someplatform I am subscribed to watch it. There is now and still no way in hell I am going to the theater or renting it for money.
Cancelled my Master Tier Subscription 01/12/23 because of OGL 1.1
All sales are final on digital via support/tos. Don’t like the changes and practices of Hasbro/WoTC stop paying subs/buying their products. That’s what I am doing now.
Unrelated to D&D but I find it ever ironic how Monopoly was created to make fun of capitalism, but ended up becoming such a huge IP that it's practically a parody of itself by now.
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The idea that boycotting something would be pointless is one that Hasbro's counting on, and at this point if I don't want to give them another penny for the WotC books then I won't give them another penny for any other DnD thing they bring out. Sure, I'd like to see the movie, and I'm still feeling emotionally tied to DnD and a part of me wants to see something I've loved for years thrive even more. I'm attached, and conflicted, and that is okay. But honestly, there's plenty of great DnD content to watch already, and plenty of it to read, and play. I can do without the movie (or paying to see it), and if it turns out to be a turd I won't feel even more annoyed for paying for a turd.
Boycotting's not some meaningless endeavour and it's not some cancel culture woke lefty snowflake whatever you wanna call it. Like jfc we've just come together to make WotC/Hasbro scramble with pathetic damage control. Community action has impact. And we can turn down 2 hours of cinematic gratification to add single little splinters to the corporate finger.
F*** corporate greed. I may have only pennies but they're my f***ing pennies and the ancient fat dragon's not getting a single one.
Basically this.
Most companies have done some shady stuff to get big. If you boycotted everything that involved somebody putting profit over ethics you'd own next to nothing.
I don't agree with Hasbro/WotC are doing with the OGL but I'm not gonna stop playing D&D. I can play it free. And I am most assuredly, absolutely, going to my fave cinema to watch the D&D movie that I've been waiting for DECADES for and actually looks fun.
The movie being super successful or being a big flop isn't going to have much affect to Hasbro or D&D as a game. And I'm not going to cut my nose off to spite my face all because a greedy company showed it was greedy. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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I understand, however, wouldn't call the Monopoly series a parody.
Perhaps, a variation of the same theme would be more accurate.
There's even a Monopoly: Dungeons & Dragons edition.
All for the purpose of fun.
I mean, people can boycott/stop buying whatever they want, whenever they want, for whatever damn fool reason they want
Once you shut off your critical thinking though and just blindly follow the mob, it becomes that much easier for someone else to come along and turn your "cause" into a grift, so you end up out the money anyway
Active characters:
Carric Aquissar, elven wannabe artist in his deconstructionist period (Archfey warlock)
Lan Kidogo, mapach archaeologist and treasure hunter (Knowledge cleric)
Mardan Ferres, elven private investigator obsessed with that one unsolved murder (Assassin rogue)
Xhekhetiel, halfling survivor of a Betrayer Gods cult (Runechild sorcerer/fighter)