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The whole D&D thing

I honestly don't know enough to comment at length, but the whole situation sounds like garbage and anti-competitive with legal wrangling to retroactively destroy people who in good faith stuck to what was legally on offer.

The baffling part is I can't find any evidence that there was a financial incentive. By all metrics, business is booming.

There was, however, a change in leadership, which stinks like a killjoy getting a corner office.

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bluestarultor
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The whole D&D thing
More or less sympathy to everyone getting fucked by this since there's nothing I can really do about it, but there's a big difference between using someone else's IP without permission (fan games with very few exceptions) and doing everything by the book with what looks like an airtight contract and a lawyer walking in, grabbing the corner of the rug, and going, "Well, ackshyuallyyy..."
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bluestarultor
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One has to wonder if this is winding up to legal action against anyone else, frankly, because Final Fantasy has been Not Shy about ripping off D&D and getting sued for it in the past without a lick of irony from D&D having been similarly sued by the Tolkien estate. Though Square Enix is (so far) financially stable (we'll see how that lasts with their NFT projects, because one's already DOA) and could probably take them to task.
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Goldy
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The whole D&D thing
I'm sorry, what's happened to D&D? I'm curious now.
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bluestarultor
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@Griff There's a subset of D&D that was more or less licensed for outside use, excluding certain "brand identity" items like Beholders, but otherwise allowing for everyone else to dig out of the same square meter of Tolkien's back yard as D&D does to make their own stuff.

Wizards of the Coast is now attempting to not only discontinue that, but retroactively revoke it from everyone who decided to partake.

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The exact words from Hasbro was that D&D was "under monetized", not that it was losing money

They just wanted more money from that boom

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