#dnd shorts

[tabletop-rpgs]

DnD_Shorts keeps delivering the leaks.

Link to tweets

Text of the new Leak:

These statements are being made by executives and legal based on their assumptions of what will appease the community, not by the team who created the game or the tools.

When the statement is prepared, it is typically posted almost immediately and suggestions from other staff members regarding potential problems with the statement are not taken into consideration. In fact, providing such feedback is considered hazardous.

Numerous employees have reportedly been fired from Wizards of the Coast’s D&D division for nothing more than voicing their opinion when asked for it. People are afraid of speaking out because they fear losing their jobs.

End of leak

To some it may feel like the statement wizards made was a win, it wasn’t. It was them playing dead. They want us to forget and move on. The fight isn’t over yet.

#ogl #ogl 1.1 #wotc #hasbro #dnd #dungeons and dragons #d&d #dungeons & dragons #dnd shorts

[hyliandude]

Oof 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

#ogl #srd #dungeons and dragons #d&d #ttrpg #twitter #dnd beyond #open game license #opendnd #ginny di #dnd shorts #wotc #wizards of the coast #hasbro

[dzee-szed]

This guy says he’s spoken to a bunch of WotC employees anonymously. The employees say:

The head of the D&D division is Chris Cao, a guy with a bunch of experience in running MMORPG videogames and no actual PnP experience

Cao thinks PnP is stupid and doesn’t understand why everyone wouldn’t just switch to online gaming

The CEO of WotC thinks that D&D needs to make three or four times more money that it does now to make up for the rest of Hasbro tanking

Cao thinks the way to do that is to literally end the PnP edition of D&D, get everyone into an online version of D&D, and charge people subscriptions and microtransactions like in an MMORPG

Cao doesn’t give a shit about the OGL because Cao wants an online D&D system where literally no one but WotC can create content for the system anyway

And if all that is true, then lol, lmao, roflmao even.

#dnd #dungeons and dragons #ogl #pathfinder #d&d #wotc #dnd shorts

[fluffy-snow-fox]

Animated more little shorts from my group's DnD sessions!

#dungeons and dragons #dnd #dnd art #dnd oc #dnd character #dnd 5e #dnd charcter art #cleric #sorcerer #bloodhunter #ranger #paladin #bard #animation #2d animation #my art #dnd shorts #ikal

[octoberspirit]

Hot damn.

#opendnd #open dnd #wotc #wizards of the coast #dnd #dnd beyond #dnd shorts #ogl #dungeons and dragons #Youtube

[eldridgetome]

I'm curious what are people's thoughts on DnD Shorts. I know his videos and information have been shared a lot and praised, as well as him getting a lot of criticism regarding misinformation and drama farming

Me personally I have sympathy for him. From what I understand, he was not expecting the OGL leak being as bad as it was (same as the rest of us), nor was he expecting to be approached by sources from inside wotc trying to leak insider information, thus he has decided to step up and help ensure wotc will not be able to trick their community despite having no background in dealing with this kind of stuff

He has certainly made a mistake with regards to spreading misinformation with regards to his claim that written feedback from surveys are NEVER read. A major mistake certainly, but he has apologized for that, has clarified that was a miscommunication with his sources who felt that feedback from surveys essentially don't matter even though they are read, and has had his sources confirmed from multiple other people to prove their legitimacy

Like I feel like he's getting a lot of hate, and have had accusations of rage/drama farming for money and virality, which I can understand, but he appears to be mostly done once the he releases his last video this weekend, and rage/drama seem valid when we are attempting to hammer the point to wotc that we will not be tricked and will look at everything from them with skepticism

Maybe there's something I'm missing but the way he's handling it seems fair given the time sensitivity of it, scale, and his own limited man power

#dnd shorts #wotc #ogl #dnd stuff #dnd #rpg #dnd 5e #discorse #dungeons and dragons

[peanutbutter-and-jellie]

I am quite excited for ryoko's guide to the yokai realms

make sure to back it on Kickstarter!!!!!

#dnd #dungeons and dragons #dnd shorts #ryoko's guide to the yokai realms

[vulpiezeya]

Was I the only one who watched this and was disgusted? Can we get #FireChrisCao trending, or something? We cannot let this man destroy our game.

#dnd shorts #dnd #D&D #dnd ogl #boycott wotc #wotc #wotc ogl #firechriscao #fire chris cao #Youtube

[laserbobcat]

Corporates be like. I’m putting my nose into pathfinder! It looks nice and I’ve wanted to try it for a while. The game I’d really like to play is Ryuutama, but it’s a bit too slow for most people I guess...

#dnd #wotc #DnD shorts #astrology

[gamesception]

Unlike the 'they don't read the playtest feedback' bit, the rumors/leaks here all track and I expect to be basically accurate. Thoughts below cut.

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Setting aside for a moment the issue of the OGL and the 3rd Party Publishing community and even the brewing legal battle between Hasbro/WotC and existing VTTs, and just looking at what all of this likely means for the upcoming new edition of D&D as a ttrpg and nothing else, things still kind of look bad.

Weekly digital releases as the primary vector for new game content, with phsyical books as collectors items, ensures that content glut will crush 6e as surely as it did 4e, while those who want to stick to physical rulebooks will have to pay out the nose for them - and if you miss the initial release you may not be able to pick up a supplement at all.

Negative impact on the game even for physical world player groups won't be limited to weekly content glut either, as the VTT focus will ensure that no 1st party rules or mechanics will be published for 6e that can't be fully implemented in the video game space, while WotC's moves to alienate the 3pp community will mean you won't have much in alternative content options for 6e to make up the difference. So you can say goodbye to esoteric, interesting rules and imaginative abilities that let you do things in D&D that just wouldn't be possible in a video game.

If you forget the tabletop roots and judge 6e as a live service online multiplayer game, then things look even worse. The WotC VTT will be unavoidably lacking compared to already established alternatives like Destiny or Genshin or Fortnight or League or WoW or Final Fantasy 14 or Guild Wars 2 - full featured video games - many of them free to play - capable of such modern marvels as real time combat, play sessions demanding less than four hours of your time, and underlying game math more complicated than a middle schooler can do in their head.

Basically, because they're making 'D&D the tabletop game the video game' instead of just a separate D&D video game, it still has to be at least theoretically playable /as/ a pen & paper tabletop game with no computers involved. As such, 6e will have all the constraints of both a video game and a tabletop game, leaving it unable to employ the unique potential of either medium. Even if they weren't also saddling it with weekly content glut, even if they hadn't made the entire player community angry going in, even if they weren't trying to carve out space in an already overcrowded 'live service' market - one where dozens of more promising and better funded offerings from more established publishers get mercilessly culled every year, even if 3rd party publishers and VTTs simply gave up the fight and quietly disappeared into that good night... even if 6e were facing none of the many other fatal roadblocks in its path, this alone would doom the entire 6e project to mediocrity and ultimately failure.

Maybe Hasbro could have turned the D&D brand into a major cash cow, but not by directly monetizing the tabletop game itself as though it were a mobile game. Rather, they needed to treat the ttrpg the way Disney treats Marvel comics or the way Nintendo and the Pokemon Corporation treat the actual main line pokemon video games - as IP farms to generate and test content that then gets spun out into a wider media and merchandising empire. Sadly they've already done enough damage to the brand that I'm not sure they could pull this off now if they wanted to.

6e, despite what I felt was a promising start in the first couple play test documents, pretty much cannot succeed at this point - not the way WotC's execs want it to, but not even as a just a stand alone game in spite of those execs, no matter how skilled and well intentioned the ground level developers are. The way I see it, we're headed towards an even more spectacular failure than 4e. Hopefully it will be quickly followed by a 7e walk back as dramatic as what we saw in 5e, and we can all start joking about odd numbered D&D editions being good and even numbered editions being trash fires.

#Youtube #D&D #DnD Shorts #WotC #Hasbro #6e #sad #because after the first couple playtests I really was excited about the direction of 6e

[eruvadhril]

#OpenDnD #DnD Shorts #Open Gaming License

[hanbeihood]

Exposing Every Lie In Wizards' Offical Statement

#youtube #opendnd #wotc #ogl #dnd shorts

[gyrrakavian]

i got a message from jocat

#jocat #dnd shorts #was doing actual research on the matter #it'd be nice if twitter would stop trying to crucify people who don't deserve it

[ithinkdogshouldvote]

Yuri but its toxic and they kiss about it

#bro i have never drawn kissing before this isn’t that crazy? #btw this was all started by the Haley whipjack video where she said lae’zel was short? life changing. im never going back. #short lae’zel truther now till I die #bg3 #bg3 fanart #baldurs gate 3 #lae'zel #shadowheart #shadowzel #is that the ship name? idk #dnd #dungeons and dragons #what if we made out at knife point and we were both girls? #digital art #digital drawing #my artwork #fanart #bg3 art #bg3 lae'zel #bg3 shadowheart #wlw #fan art #bae'zel

[craftyandy]

Wizards of the Coast Magic DnD Games Workshop Warhammer and Video Games Are SCAMS

#magicthegathering #warhammer40k #comics  https://youtu.be/BSirlKwavhk Patreon Early episodes and artwork are posted early at high resolutions for download. https://www.patreon.com/craftyandy 

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#Magic the gathering #wizards of the coast controversy #dungeons and dragons open license #critical role controversy #satire #pokemon #yu-gi-oh #crafty thoughts magic the gathering #magic the gathering scams #table top gaming is a scam #scamming table top games #gotcha games #crafty andy #sketchbook story time #commentary #money pits #gaming money pits #moist critical #dnd shorts

[cookie-block]

(autotuned) Should of brought your, TOAADMARIINE

#lol #funny #dnd #dnd shorts #dnd shenanigans #dnd memes