I should clarify - this is incredibly sarcastic

https://www.belloflostsouls.net/2022/12/dd-under-monetized-according-to-wotc.html

But Williams and Cocks hope to capitalize on the brand’s popularity. D&D Beyond and the upcoming virtual tabletop represent an opportunity to create a “recurrent spending environment.” Meaning monetization and merchandising, the most powerful force in the universe.

It's weird that WotC is putting out a VTT right around the time that they ban VTTs, and also decide to become the Fortnite of tabletop games.

Also - they're fucking stupid: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/01/beware-gifts-dragons-how-dds-open-gaming-license-may-have-become-trap-creators

Though - to be clear - a huge portion of this is sarcasm from me - because the OGL is just kinda... bad - D&D isn't the industry, D&D should die, it almost did, but 5th edition did some really scummy things to keep everyone else out, and so alienating a huge portion of the creators that are sustaining their market dominance is good - at least to me.

5th Edition really did a lot of work to destroy the thriving indie market that literally almost destroyed D&D in 2012, and now I'm hoping D&D will do it again

Wait- not sure what you mean

Oh! I was thinking hashtag not BBTag - thanks!

Brain did not just register

How serious about this are you? And how silly and playful are you willing to go? Because like, this might be a good incentive for me to run another mumble online Helicopter Death game.... but uh, no pressure 😳, I just get excited 😅😅😅.... but dm if you want to too

Wanna be a director of engineering or a senior python dev?

https://www.pronavigator.ai/careers

apparently they aren't posted yet - but we're looking for a Director of Development and a Senior Developer

We do NLP and search on large piles of documents. Mostly trying to make the gross badly organized SharePoint everyone be accessible and usable to a person on a phone trying to answer an annoyed person's questions

Kicked over to XMPP