The direction of D&D and D&DB (OneD&D and the VTT they're proposing) is antithetical to the sensibilities of the majority of the D&D community.
If you're only playing "pen and paper" this will eventually come around to harming you. Not immediately, but eventually, as less content gets created, as everything becomes more expensive, and as the preferences of the community of players is reflected less and less in what WotC/Hasbro creates.
If you're not using VTTs this similarly will come home to haunt you. A lot of innovation, creative content, and other materials have come from that community. For many of us, it's the only way we CAN play due to our jobs, travel, etc. This means as that community shrinks (due to the aggressive plan to attack any VTT - even ones that have long been on the market already!), their contributions won't be added to the TT world... which still hurts you.
Lastly, if you can't see what Hasbro is doing, specifically under the mis-guided advice of a MMO Expert / Zynga Mobile Game expert who thinks he understands TTRPG, then I don't know what to tell you... You are being ignored by, and in a very real way, insulted by, a organization that should be rewarding you for your loyalty. These plans will turn D&D from a wonderful community building experience where friendships are built over time to a micro-transaction driven, monetization-driven, video game-like platform that places the player and their worlds secondary to their revenue goals.
At the end of the day, what kind of experience do you want? Do you want "Critical Role"? Or do you want "Farmville"? Do you want "The Curse of Strahd" with your best homebrew bits and some really cool add-ins from Coville, Mercer, and The Dungeon Dudes? Or do you want to drop another $15.99 to get the "Vamp Pack 1" special content so you can play the game THEY envisioned ... but not exactly the one YOU envisioned?
It's OUR GAME. They may have started it ages ago, but it's outgrown them. They need to be respectful of what it has become, and respectful of us as players, builders, buyers, and fans.
I've cancelled my subscription (and I owned LITERALLY everything they've produced - including multiple copies of the hardcopy books).
I must say that, the way this appears, it would seem Chris Cao is trying to milk you. I don't know him, but the tone of facts coming out are that he looks at our community he sees dollar signs and not the heart and soul of D&D. I'm forced to ask myself it he thinks we're rubes, easily swayed and manipulated, by corporate spin and attempts to discredit those calling out the underhanded tactics taking place at Wizard.
Chris Cao, and the toxic plans he's bringing to D&D, have to go. I'm a stockholder and I intend to make my voice heard.
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They could keep publishing real paper books and supplements. They could build a great VTT and sell subscriptions for that. And they could make a good online video game.
Do we really need yet another thread on this topic?
Until WotC gets the message...
I'd love to post about other things...
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Why leave now? Why cancel your sub now? The new Open Game License 1.2 isn't bad. It lets creators use Wizards of the Coast's official trademarks, and it stops people from spreading anger and hate. It isn't any worse than the previous license for this, and your feedback might even cause it to end up being even better than it already is now.
I would recommend not listening to the unverified rumors D&D Shorts is trying to spread. When one thing he says gets disproved, he suddenly has another set of new information up his sleeve to talk about how horrible and terrible Wizards of the Coast is.
Spoiler alert, Wizards is a for-profit company. It is going to want money. If you think switching to another role-playing game is any better, then I would like to remind you that whatever you are thinking of switching to is also almost certainly run by a for-profit company that wants your money. They will not necessarily be any better than Wizards of the Coast or Hasbro, despite what many people want to say.
At this point in time, it really feels like a wait and see moment. We don't know the outcome of these events and how they are going to play out, but we do know that our concerns and worries are being listened to and taken into account.Wizards of the Coast is improving and doing better, cancelling your subscription now just sends the message that you didn't really care what they did after all.
Waiting a couple of weeks before making a decision about how to spend your money won't kill you. Cancel your sub if you want, though it does really feel a bit preemptive and isn't as accurate a way of giving feedback as the survey. Also, to everyone who has decided to leave the game over these changes, D&D will be here for you if you ever want to come back.
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They could keep publishing real paper books and supplements. They could build a great VTT and sell subscriptions for that. And they could make a good online video game.
But will they?
Most likely, seeing as WotC's goal is to acquire vast amounts of money.
I would only trust the survey if they had the balls to make the responses public, or at least provided them to a neutral third party for review. They won't do either and can't be trusted. The current OGL1.2 continues to be filled with lies, and they are coming to put up competitive barriers around VTTs. I'm all for a for-profit company trying to make money by providing better goods and services, but I'm completely opposed to bad executive teams trying to construct artificial barriers to competition so they can make the most money possible with the least amount of innovative work.
Here's the real kicker - this past summer an investor group led a proxy fight with Hasbro to get some actual game experience on their board and exec team. You can find this publicly reported by large news orgs (look up Hasbro proxy fight). They lost the fight, but were arguing a lot of the same stuff (that Hasbro execs don't understand this space at all and are going to fail).
Not only did I cancel my sub, I've dumped all my stock in this dumpster fire of a company.
I would only trust the survey if they had the balls to make the responses public, or at least provided them to a neutral third party for review.
That would be a massive privacy violation, and it would be effectively impossible at this point since they would have had to warn people of this before they completed the survey.
Were results to be released publicly, it is possible that a large number of people would not share their thoughts for fear of identification and mob mentality based retaliation. Not only that, but some people sign their written feedback with their real names, and it would be incredibly shocking and concerning for them to learn that what they thought were private responses are now public.
A neutral third party makes more sense, but it is impossible that they would be able to look at all the written responses without just using a computer to analyze key phrases. Also, it would still discourage some people from giving their thoughts if they knew they would be reviewed by a company other than the one they wanted to give their feedback on. Not only that, but there would almost certainly be pressure on the independent third-party to share their results and accusations that they were biased.
Even working with a reputable data firm to do the survey would show they are serious. I've had several data scientist friends comment on how poorly designed their survey actually is and how hard it will be to extract anything useful from it (even if they are well intended). The combination of ill-intentions and incompetence is hard to separate but both are kind of equally horrible.
Uhm... no. They've posted information, but they haven't gotten the point.
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Uhm... no. They've posted information, but they haven't gotten the point.
Try reading through the links I sent please
I have.
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Why leave now? Why cancel your sub now? The new Open Game License 1.2 isn't bad. It lets creators use Wizards of the Coast's official trademarks, and it stops people from spreading anger and hate. It isn't any worse than the previous license for this, and your feedback might even cause it to end up being even better than it already is now.
I would recommend not listening to the unverified rumors D&D Shorts is trying to spread. When one thing he says gets disproved, he suddenly has another set of new information up his sleeve to talk about how horrible and terrible Wizards of the Coast is.
Spoiler alert, Wizards is a for-profit company. It is going to want money. If you think switching to another role-playing game is any better, then I would like to remind you that whatever you are thinking of switching to is also almost certainly run by a for-profit company that wants your money. They will not necessarily be any better than Wizards of the Coast or Hasbro, despite what many people want to say.
At this point in time, it really feels like a wait and see moment. We don't know the outcome of these events and how they are going to play out, but we do know that our concerns and worries are being listened to and taken into account.Wizards of the Coast is improving and doing better, cancelling your subscription now just sends the message that you didn't really care what they did after all.
Waiting a couple of weeks before making a decision about how to spend your money won't kill you. Cancel your sub if you want, though it does really feel a bit preemptive and isn't as accurate a way of giving feedback as the survey. Also, to everyone who has decided to leave the game over these changes, D&D will be here for you if you ever want to come back.
Sorry dude but you're wrong, the OGL 1.2 IS objectively bad - if you need to see someone's disection of why it's bad, go watch the Dungeon Craft's video on it. He's a debate teacher and he goes through a quick step-by-step of the statement released with it and why it's all a net negative, and also why he'd never sign anything like that purely due to the one stipulation that requires you to give up your rights to a jury trial and play in WotC's legal backyard if there ever are any cases brought against them. There's a lot of issues with it.
Why are you so invested in people capitulating to WotC? If you don't like reading threads about the OGL... don't click them?
"What isn’t permitted are features that don’t replicate your dining room table storytelling. If you replace your imagination with an animation of the Magic Missile streaking across the board to strike your target, or your VTT integrates our content into an NFT, that’s not the tabletop experience. That’s more like a video game. "
This is over-reaching. They certainly could demand (and should) that no one duplicates the animation for Magic Missile they plan to use in their VTT, but to declare that ANY animation anywhere is a breach of IP is ridiculous! First off, there have been companies doing this for years - so if anyone has a copyright/IP claim, it's them against Wizards. But to say ANY animation of a Magic Missile is an infringement on their IP is a bit far-fetched.
This is Wizards trying to attack a market they were SERIOUSLY late to participate in. They were begged (and I know, I was on some of the focus groups) to build a VTT and they didn't so, Foundry, Astral, Table Top Simulator, Owl Bear, and the old favs of Roll20 and Fantasy Grounds built their own effects into the game. Some are third party enhancements, some are in game itself. These were available years before Wizards ever even mentioned they were going to build one. So to claim this NOW as theirs is not only over-reaching, it flies in the face of logic.
So if I upload an animation tile of an explosion and use it in my VTT to show the area of effect for a fireball, and have been for years (long before Wizards even built a VTT), Wizards now says that's not allowed.
I'm sorry - that's crazy. If they say "You can't duplicate OUR awesome animation for Magic Missile." that's fine. But to go after everyone else, including the animations that serve other game systems just because it could possibly be applied by the DM to Wizard's spell is over-reaching and grossly unfair (not to mention a bad precedent).
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I totally agree. Hasbro believes that they can create new customers with this initiative. It will fail, just due to the fact that they don't understand the community. The goals and desires of the D&D community is very different from the Magic and MMO communities. I participate in both of those communities and so do many of my players, but we want a different experience with D&D.
I have purchased a dead tree copy of every 5e D&D book to this point and several here. I am a collector, much to my wife's dismay. When I told her that my Hasbro purchases were done, she was over joyed. Little does she know that I will keep purchasing other systems, 3pp 5e products and Demiplane purchases.
I have been playing D&D since 1980, so I do not fall into the new majority of D&D players, but I do run games for the 20 somethings.
Why leave now? Why cancel your sub now? The new Open Game License 1.2 isn't bad. It lets creators use Wizards of the Coast's official trademarks, and it stops people from spreading anger and hate. It isn't any worse than the previous license for this, and your feedback might even cause it to end up being even better than it already is now.
I would recommend not listening to the unverified rumors D&D Shorts is trying to spread. When one thing he says gets disproved, he suddenly has another set of new information up his sleeve to talk about how horrible and terrible Wizards of the Coast is.
Spoiler alert, Wizards is a for-profit company. It is going to want money. If you think switching to another role-playing game is any better, then I would like to remind you that whatever you are thinking of switching to is also almost certainly run by a for-profit company that wants your money. They will not necessarily be any better than Wizards of the Coast or Hasbro, despite what many people want to say.
At this point in time, it really feels like a wait and see moment. We don't know the outcome of these events and how they are going to play out, but we do know that our concerns and worries are being listened to and taken into account.Wizards of the Coast is improving and doing better, cancelling your subscription now just sends the message that you didn't really care what they did after all.
Waiting a couple of weeks before making a decision about how to spend your money won't kill you. Cancel your sub if you want, though it does really feel a bit preemptive and isn't as accurate a way of giving feedback as the survey. Also, to everyone who has decided to leave the game over these changes, D&D will be here for you if you ever want to come back.
Unsubstantiated rumor? Hardly. Their own material is enough to damn them.
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Firing Chris Cao is like putting a bandaid on an amputated appendage. HE is a symptom, there are bigger players that should also be fired.
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The age of OGL is over. The Time of the ORC has come!
The moment that WotC declares OGL 1.0a "de-authorized", "revoked" or any such nonsense is the moment I release as much content as possible under OGL 1.0a and say, "Sue me WotC". OGL1.0a cannot be revoked. If thousands of us do it, the countersuit will be a class action suit.
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The direction of D&D and D&DB (OneD&D and the VTT they're proposing) is antithetical to the sensibilities of the majority of the D&D community.
If you're only playing "pen and paper" this will eventually come around to harming you. Not immediately, but eventually, as less content gets created, as everything becomes more expensive, and as the preferences of the community of players is reflected less and less in what WotC/Hasbro creates.
If you're not using VTTs this similarly will come home to haunt you. A lot of innovation, creative content, and other materials have come from that community. For many of us, it's the only way we CAN play due to our jobs, travel, etc. This means as that community shrinks (due to the aggressive plan to attack any VTT - even ones that have long been on the market already!), their contributions won't be added to the TT world... which still hurts you.
Lastly, if you can't see what Hasbro is doing, specifically under the mis-guided advice of a MMO Expert / Zynga Mobile Game expert who thinks he understands TTRPG, then I don't know what to tell you... You are being ignored by, and in a very real way, insulted by, a organization that should be rewarding you for your loyalty. These plans will turn D&D from a wonderful community building experience where friendships are built over time to a micro-transaction driven, monetization-driven, video game-like platform that places the player and their worlds secondary to their revenue goals.
At the end of the day, what kind of experience do you want? Do you want "Critical Role"? Or do you want "Farmville"? Do you want "The Curse of Strahd" with your best homebrew bits and some really cool add-ins from Coville, Mercer, and The Dungeon Dudes? Or do you want to drop another $15.99 to get the "Vamp Pack 1" special content so you can play the game THEY envisioned ... but not exactly the one YOU envisioned?
It's OUR GAME. They may have started it ages ago, but it's outgrown them. They need to be respectful of what it has become, and respectful of us as players, builders, buyers, and fans.
I've cancelled my subscription (and I owned LITERALLY everything they've produced - including multiple copies of the hardcopy books).
I must say that, the way this appears, it would seem Chris Cao is trying to milk you. I don't know him, but the tone of facts coming out are that he looks at our community he sees dollar signs and not the heart and soul of D&D. I'm forced to ask myself it he thinks we're rubes, easily swayed and manipulated, by corporate spin and attempts to discredit those calling out the underhanded tactics taking place at Wizard.
Chris Cao, and the toxic plans he's bringing to D&D, have to go. I'm a stockholder and I intend to make my voice heard.
Come watch us save the multiverse in "The Lost Dragons of Phandelver" - a homebrew based on Lost Mines of Phandelver, Dragon of Icespire Peak, and They Tyranny of Dragons.
https://www.twitch.tv/kdinla
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Do we really need yet another thread on this topic?
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I think they could do all three ideas at once.
They could keep publishing real paper books and supplements.
They could build a great VTT and sell subscriptions for that.
And they could make a good online video game.
But will they?
Until WotC gets the message...
I'd love to post about other things...
Come watch us save the multiverse in "The Lost Dragons of Phandelver" - a homebrew based on Lost Mines of Phandelver, Dragon of Icespire Peak, and They Tyranny of Dragons.
https://www.twitch.tv/kdinla
The Gatewalker Saga - Dragons Beware
We would love you to post about other things as well.
Why leave now? Why cancel your sub now? The new Open Game License 1.2 isn't bad. It lets creators use Wizards of the Coast's official trademarks, and it stops people from spreading anger and hate. It isn't any worse than the previous license for this, and your feedback might even cause it to end up being even better than it already is now.
I would recommend not listening to the unverified rumors D&D Shorts is trying to spread. When one thing he says gets disproved, he suddenly has another set of new information up his sleeve to talk about how horrible and terrible Wizards of the Coast is.
Spoiler alert, Wizards is a for-profit company. It is going to want money. If you think switching to another role-playing game is any better, then I would like to remind you that whatever you are thinking of switching to is also almost certainly run by a for-profit company that wants your money. They will not necessarily be any better than Wizards of the Coast or Hasbro, despite what many people want to say.
At this point in time, it really feels like a wait and see moment. We don't know the outcome of these events and how they are going to play out, but we do know that our concerns and worries are being listened to and taken into account.Wizards of the Coast is improving and doing better, cancelling your subscription now just sends the message that you didn't really care what they did after all.
Waiting a couple of weeks before making a decision about how to spend your money won't kill you. Cancel your sub if you want, though it does really feel a bit preemptive and isn't as accurate a way of giving feedback as the survey. Also, to everyone who has decided to leave the game over these changes, D&D will be here for you if you ever want to come back.
BoringBard's long and tedious posts somehow manage to enrapture audiences. How? Because he used Charm Person, the #1 bard spell!
He/him pronouns. Call me Bard. PROUD NERD!
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HERE.https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1432-starting-the-ogl-playtest
https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1433-ogl-1-2-where-to-find-the-latest-information-plus
https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1428-a-working-conversation-about-the-open-game-license
They already did.
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Most likely, seeing as WotC's goal is to acquire vast amounts of money.
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I would only trust the survey if they had the balls to make the responses public, or at least provided them to a neutral third party for review. They won't do either and can't be trusted. The current OGL1.2 continues to be filled with lies, and they are coming to put up competitive barriers around VTTs. I'm all for a for-profit company trying to make money by providing better goods and services, but I'm completely opposed to bad executive teams trying to construct artificial barriers to competition so they can make the most money possible with the least amount of innovative work.
Here's the real kicker - this past summer an investor group led a proxy fight with Hasbro to get some actual game experience on their board and exec team. You can find this publicly reported by large news orgs (look up Hasbro proxy fight). They lost the fight, but were arguing a lot of the same stuff (that Hasbro execs don't understand this space at all and are going to fail).
Not only did I cancel my sub, I've dumped all my stock in this dumpster fire of a company.
That would be a massive privacy violation, and it would be effectively impossible at this point since they would have had to warn people of this before they completed the survey.
Were results to be released publicly, it is possible that a large number of people would not share their thoughts for fear of identification and mob mentality based retaliation. Not only that, but some people sign their written feedback with their real names, and it would be incredibly shocking and concerning for them to learn that what they thought were private responses are now public.
A neutral third party makes more sense, but it is impossible that they would be able to look at all the written responses without just using a computer to analyze key phrases. Also, it would still discourage some people from giving their thoughts if they knew they would be reviewed by a company other than the one they wanted to give their feedback on. Not only that, but there would almost certainly be pressure on the independent third-party to share their results and accusations that they were biased.
BoringBard's long and tedious posts somehow manage to enrapture audiences. How? Because he used Charm Person, the #1 bard spell!
He/him pronouns. Call me Bard. PROUD NERD!
Ever wanted to talk about your parties' worst mistakes? Do so HERE. What's your favorite class, why? Share & explain
HERE.Even working with a reputable data firm to do the survey would show they are serious. I've had several data scientist friends comment on how poorly designed their survey actually is and how hard it will be to extract anything useful from it (even if they are well intended). The combination of ill-intentions and incompetence is hard to separate but both are kind of equally horrible.
Nah, this topic is more important than the rest to be honest.
Uhm... no. They've posted information, but they haven't gotten the point.
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Try reading through the links I sent please
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I have.
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Sorry dude but you're wrong, the OGL 1.2 IS objectively bad - if you need to see someone's disection of why it's bad, go watch the Dungeon Craft's video on it. He's a debate teacher and he goes through a quick step-by-step of the statement released with it and why it's all a net negative, and also why he'd never sign anything like that purely due to the one stipulation that requires you to give up your rights to a jury trial and play in WotC's legal backyard if there ever are any cases brought against them. There's a lot of issues with it.
Why are you so invested in people capitulating to WotC? If you don't like reading threads about the OGL... don't click them?
Example of over-reaching:
From the VTT section:
"What isn’t permitted are features that don’t replicate your dining room table storytelling. If you replace your imagination with an animation of the Magic Missile streaking across the board to strike your target, or your VTT integrates our content into an NFT, that’s not the tabletop experience. That’s more like a video game. "
This is over-reaching. They certainly could demand (and should) that no one duplicates the animation for Magic Missile they plan to use in their VTT, but to declare that ANY animation anywhere is a breach of IP is ridiculous! First off, there have been companies doing this for years - so if anyone has a copyright/IP claim, it's them against Wizards. But to say ANY animation of a Magic Missile is an infringement on their IP is a bit far-fetched.
This is Wizards trying to attack a market they were SERIOUSLY late to participate in. They were begged (and I know, I was on some of the focus groups) to build a VTT and they didn't so, Foundry, Astral, Table Top Simulator, Owl Bear, and the old favs of Roll20 and Fantasy Grounds built their own effects into the game. Some are third party enhancements, some are in game itself. These were available years before Wizards ever even mentioned they were going to build one. So to claim this NOW as theirs is not only over-reaching, it flies in the face of logic.
So if I upload an animation tile of an explosion and use it in my VTT to show the area of effect for a fireball, and have been for years (long before Wizards even built a VTT), Wizards now says that's not allowed.
I'm sorry - that's crazy. If they say "You can't duplicate OUR awesome animation for Magic Missile." that's fine. But to go after everyone else, including the animations that serve other game systems just because it could possibly be applied by the DM to Wizard's spell is over-reaching and grossly unfair (not to mention a bad precedent).
Come watch us save the multiverse in "The Lost Dragons of Phandelver" - a homebrew based on Lost Mines of Phandelver, Dragon of Icespire Peak, and They Tyranny of Dragons.
https://www.twitch.tv/kdinla
The Gatewalker Saga - Dragons Beware
I totally agree. Hasbro believes that they can create new customers with this initiative. It will fail, just due to the fact that they don't understand the community. The goals and desires of the D&D community is very different from the Magic and MMO communities. I participate in both of those communities and so do many of my players, but we want a different experience with D&D.
I have purchased a dead tree copy of every 5e D&D book to this point and several here. I am a collector, much to my wife's dismay. When I told her that my Hasbro purchases were done, she was over joyed. Little does she know that I will keep purchasing other systems, 3pp 5e products and Demiplane purchases.
I have been playing D&D since 1980, so I do not fall into the new majority of D&D players, but I do run games for the 20 somethings.
Unsubstantiated rumor? Hardly.
Their own material is enough to damn them.
Come watch us save the multiverse in "The Lost Dragons of Phandelver" - a homebrew based on Lost Mines of Phandelver, Dragon of Icespire Peak, and They Tyranny of Dragons.
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Firing Chris Cao is like putting a bandaid on an amputated appendage. HE is a symptom, there are bigger players that should also be fired.
The age of OGL is over. The Time of the ORC has come!
The moment that WotC declares OGL 1.0a "de-authorized", "revoked" or any such nonsense is the moment I release as much content as possible under OGL 1.0a and say, "Sue me WotC". OGL1.0a cannot be revoked. If thousands of us do it, the countersuit will be a class action suit.