Monstrous Compendium Vol. 1: Spelljammer Creatures
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They are free to internally have the regretti spaghetti sense of the word, but to say it was under the unintentional accident definition of "mistake", is not supported by the pattern of bad, greedy and reactionary behaviors I listed. It was a genuine attempt, & that attempt failed.
DM, player & homebrewer(Current homebrew project is an unofficial conversion of SBURB/SGRUB from Homestuck into DND 5e)
Once made Maxwell's Silver Hammer come down upon Strahd's head to make sure he was dead.
Always study & sharpen philosophical razors. They save a lot of trouble.
Once again, you misread a post and are arguing against a point no one is making. As is abundantly clear from their first sentence, they are not talking about the issues you are trying to shoehorn into this conversation.
As far as I am concerned, this conversation is dead. It was based on no evidence (admitted to by OP), Wizards staff has officially confirmed that there were no plans in the work, and there is plenty of data to support the accuracy of Wizards’ assertion. No sense trying to spin this into another ground for baseless conspiracy. All that does is unnecessarily divide the community and jeopardize the great level of communication and respect we have been getting recently from Wizards.
It certainly feels like you're forever mad about those things and not letting them go.
Also seems like you're coming a bit close to deliberate lies. As distasteful as the Pinkertons incident was, WotC reached out to get the cards back from the guy and get him what he actually ordered and he refused. There's more nuance to the story than "WotC hired Pinkertons, therefore WotC evil." The OGL incident was wildly overblown and resulted in WotC giving the community everything they wanted* (*except for the people who were mad about the language forbidding the use of D&D licensing to develop racist content). And whatever you're on about with that monopoly comment seems wholly divorced from the reality of the TTRPG marketplace.
Imma need y'all to pop a Xanax cause this is getting ludicrous.
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Aware and Critical =/= mad.
Even having union-busting private cops on speed-dial is a bad look because ACAB. Heck, having Fisher-Philips on speed dial doesn't help, since they're also union-busters.
I agree that it is overblown & part of the post-lockdown insanity Hasbro made WotC do in the name of number go up. But it's still a thing that shapes opinion outside of the Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition positivity bubble. (& trust me, racists & other bigots can stay mad) What upsets people more is the idea that they'd take 3pp & homebrew & use it as they please, i.e. using it to train genAI(I know they aren't, but that's what the fear is).
EDIT:WAS wrong about Sherman aspect, thank you Caerwyn
DM, player & homebrewer(Current homebrew project is an unofficial conversion of SBURB/SGRUB from Homestuck into DND 5e)
Once made Maxwell's Silver Hammer come down upon Strahd's head to make sure he was dead.
Always study & sharpen philosophical razors. They save a lot of trouble.
As Caerwyn pointed out, this forum is not an appropriate venue for legal expertise or advice. So while a deep dive into the finer points of antitrust law would be quite interesting - I genuinely feel like I'd learn a lot - this quite simply is neither the time nor the place. That said, based on what I remember from AP US History way back in the 20th Century the Sherman Antitrust Act specifically targeted anticompetitive activities. I expect any lawyer would have an extremely hard time taking WotC to court for anticompetitive activities in the TTRPG space when they literally give away a free license to their core gameplay mechanics to any competitor that wants to use them. Doesn't seem like it would be a wise investment of time.
But, again deferring to Caerwyn, that and all your other grievances against WotC have nothing to do with the original question, which has had an official response from WotC staff that should put all the pearl clutching about subscriptions and slippery slopes to rest.
I posted on this thread why this post is objectively wrong. I will not repeat that analysis, other that to say the above is flagrant misinformation.
It would work better if it was posted outside of the forums too, say...on social media(Especially YouTube, Facebook & BlueSky).
Also, they're not my personal grievances(My personal one is far different). They're what people outside of the bubble have. & it was in the greater context of what qualifies as a mistake vs a deliberate choice.
DM, player & homebrewer(Current homebrew project is an unofficial conversion of SBURB/SGRUB from Homestuck into DND 5e)
Once made Maxwell's Silver Hammer come down upon Strahd's head to make sure he was dead.
Always study & sharpen philosophical razors. They save a lot of trouble.
Replied there already.
DM, player & homebrewer(Current homebrew project is an unofficial conversion of SBURB/SGRUB from Homestuck into DND 5e)
Once made Maxwell's Silver Hammer come down upon Strahd's head to make sure he was dead.
Always study & sharpen philosophical razors. They save a lot of trouble.
Outside these here forums there's a whole Wikipedia article on the Sherman Antitrust Act. Anyone can read through the article as a starting point for research into the topic and from there branch out to a number of other sources to research more using the references provided there. That's significantly better than listening to opinions on YouTube, Facebook, and BlueSky. With the added benefit that doing active research like that helps keep the mind sharp and in the habit of seeing nuance and depth in topics when people otherwise try to convince you to accept a single, oversimplified narrative. Also, it leads to learning fun trivia, like the Sherman namesake of that act was the brother of United States Army General William Tecumseh Sherman.
People outside what bubble? Because people outside the TTRPG community bubble absolutely did not care about the OGL thing or the Pinkertons thing. But within the TTRPG community bubble there was a smaller bubble of social media grifters blowing both things orders of magnitude out of proportion.
The Sherman thing was due to disinfo I was dosed w/ years ago.. I actively take the L on that particular aspect.
As in, the official response needs to be released as a PR statement so people are aware of it. Not everyone reads the forums.
WotC's stupid, & by extension Hasbro's, always gets into political, anti-corporate, video game, anti-police, pro-consumer, literary, anti-capitalist/ism, anarchist, legal & so many more other bubbles outside of WotC via intersection with grifter ones. Especially OGLgate & The Pinkertons(Which I'm still learning nuances about to this day). You'd be surprised how many people find out & have opinions despite not caring about the game itself or were "already boycotting(read as "never spent their own money on anything Hasbro in their lives")". It's important to counter this kind of thing using VERY well-chosen words.
DM, player & homebrewer(Current homebrew project is an unofficial conversion of SBURB/SGRUB from Homestuck into DND 5e)
Once made Maxwell's Silver Hammer come down upon Strahd's head to make sure he was dead.
Always study & sharpen philosophical razors. They save a lot of trouble.
Isn't this getting really off-topic now?
OP asks if D&D beyond will paywall all content behind subs.
The actual executive producer of D&D Beyond came on to specifically say they're not.
Isn't this thread like done, panic over, we all okie dokies up in 'ere, now? Why is everybody still yappin' pages later about WotC entire past, some Sherman-law-whatever-the-fluff, and bubbles? What is goin' on? Nobody's budgin' on their stances, getting repetitive now and feels like none of it is relevant anymore? Nothing productive is happenin', and probably won't be. Maybe it's time to let it rest - or at least get back on topic, maybe?
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On other threads, where you have been spreading abject misinformation - falsehoods you never bother to delete - I have made the following point: “I will not bother to respond further because it just continues to platform your fictions.”
Wizards is in the same boat. This thread is a falsehood - anyone with a basic understanding of this game would recognize it. Wizards did not need to deign such nonsense with a response, though it was a class act for them to do so and put fears to rest.
Making this statement at a large level, beyond the confines of this thread, would spread the nonsensical theory further than this thread. It would give this nonsense a platform far larger than it deserves, putting the idea in the minds of a wider population when it probably does not already exist in the minds of a more sensible general population.
Wizards’ response was in the right - they responded to the nonsense and did so in a way that did not further disseminate such misinformation. This is exactly how they should respond.
Transparency time:I have a mental block regarding deleting comments because I've been admonished in other places for doing so, to the point where I presume it's either against the rules, a serious faux pas or pointless due to those with system access still being able to see them. So that's more due to being told it's a bad thing. If you'd DM me a list of ones you'd think are worth taking down/editing, I'd appreciate it so I can clear things up.
By "well-chosen words" I meant "words & phrasing w/minimal plausible & possible ambiguity for the average person", not "words to the effect of". Heck, I've pointed out Brian's post to people who lost their minds over DNDiscourse & others spreading the lie that OP wanted to check on, & it's not good enough for people my roommate & I have shared it with. Most think it's just PR speak that has no weight until legally binding &/or sincere actions are undertaken(I personally saw suggestions that ranged from simply making Drops player options free/cheap to buy and/or shareable, to lowered prices across the board to be more friendly to international &/or lower-class ownership of official material, to complete dissolution of Hasbro & WotC(the last one being the most absurd)) to rectify community(sic) grievances(That, let make this explicitly clear, I do NOT share with these people to anywhere the same degree(I've ha time to reflect).
I do want things to get better, mind you. I acknowledge the leaps & bounds where they are. I'm moreso on about not making boneheaded moves that will inevitably result in, better foresight and/or awareness of, & more preemptive tactics out of the gate against, bad PR when an action and/or reaction will generate such, which is a consistent issue w/the corporate administration side of things. Communication within controlled spaces is LIGHT-years better than it was even 2 years ago, but better communication in uncontrolled spaces is possible & plausible.
DM, player & homebrewer(Current homebrew project is an unofficial conversion of SBURB/SGRUB from Homestuck into DND 5e)
Once made Maxwell's Silver Hammer come down upon Strahd's head to make sure he was dead.
Always study & sharpen philosophical razors. They save a lot of trouble.
There’s such a thing as the Streisand Effect, the wider WotC post that they’re not doing something the more people become aware it was ever a concern and the more certain people who have made a career out of hating them will say “why are they denying it so much? They must be up to something” so why bother? They’ve made a post on this thread, which they didn’t have to do, and still people are dredging up old grievances from years ago in order to keep circling around the same point that’s already been denied