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To say that it has been a challenging year for Wizards of the Cost would be an understatement. In this video, Duke takes on the role of a WOTC CEO as he reacts to various highs and lows of the past year. From Spelljammer, to One D&D, to the OGL, to the D&D movie, to renaming One D&D, to the Pinkertons, to the D&D VTT Survey, to D&D price hikes, to Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants AI, to the Book of Many Things debacle, AND NOW Hasbro firing 1,100 employees from WOTC and MTG before Christmas.
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I can't believe I had to revisit this video in less then a month....
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WotC/Hasbro took the last one as a challenge.
Just wait, it's not the end of the year YET)
@@Hallinwar Don't jinx it
@@WildflowersCreationsHasbro: Hold my beer.
This is the best video I have seen about Hasbro laying off 1,100 employees 2 weeks before Christmas. Hasbro really has no heart at all, or soul.
That's capitalism, Hasbro making Scrooge look like a good boss
@@ForeverTraitor that's not capitalism, that's bad management.
@@tuseroni6085 it's a symptom of capitalism. People want to make themselves richer, so they cut people out and run on a skeleton crew to further profit margin.
Yes it's HORRENDOUS management, but more businesses are doing it. It's selfish, greedy, and just wrong. They want profits now they don't care about long term returns apparently.
@@tuseroni6085 it very much is the essence of capitalism xD No one said that capitalism is smart and makes sense. Cause it obviously doesn't when it is actively destroying our world
Corporation's gonna corporation, unfortunately.
When your favorite IP is acquired by a megacorporation, you either abandon it or normalize pirating it.
Which, unfortunately, is pretty much every IP these days
60+ $ for a sourcebook that has barely even 100 pages worth of content, and literally ZERO lore? This is why I have never bought any 5e books, and I've been playing since the release of 5e. But oh if they started selling 3.5e PDFs, I would do literal backflips to buy them, because that Ed has so much amazing lore, monster stats, and overall world design help. I would happily support oldschool D&D books over the new. I just wish there was an easy way of using the newer combat system with the old books, because math is not mentally possible for me, and 5e at least dumbs it down slightly for me
Alright, A: Fucking woof, that's true.
And B: What about when your favorite IP is cash-grabbing by integrating every other IP they can get their hands on while charging more and delivering the worst print quality you've ever seen?
I switch to 3rd party.
All piracy is now media preservation, so yo ho!
Spelljammer: A D&D race called the Hadozee, a primate-esq race, was given a background connected to slavery. Wizards of the Coast (D&D's publishers) apologized and removed that aspect of the race.
One D&D: Basically an errata to the rules of current D&D 5th edition, making to virtually 5.5E or 6E. Although WOTC dropped the Edition titles after 4E. Also, certain early rules in One D&D supposedly rubbed play-testers the wrong way.
The Open Game License: The biggest controversy to come out of D&D and the breaking point that made TTRPG players jump ship. Basically, Hasbro (WOTC's parent company) wanted to profit off of the normally laxed license fee when players wanna adapt their campaign (ala Vox Machina) or companies making third-party supplementary materials and stuff. This backfired horrifically, and they quickly retracted their stance on it.
Honor Among Thieves: While a critical success, it didn't do well in the box office. Likely because of the OGL drama, but also probably because poor scheduling (released alongside Mario Bros and John Wick).
D&D 2024: The new name for One D&D.
The Pinkertons: WOTC caught wind that someone got their hands on the Magic: The Gathering expansion set a month or so before its release due to a retail mistake. In response, Hasbro sent Pinkertons (one of the oldest security/risk management firms in the states) to raid their house and steal their cards. It could've ended badly for the victim since the Pinkertons have a history of essentially being mobsters for big corporations. This is tangentially related to D&D because of the companies involved.
D&D VTT Survey: WOTC has admitted that there's gonna be a push to monetize off of players more (since Game Masters are 80% of their profits, yet are usually just one person in a conventional D&D campaign). Since their new VTT is on their website, D&D Beyond, it is very likely that they'll introduce more online products, since they've made it difficult (and costly) to shift from real to Virtual, and further divide aspects of the game.
Price Hikes: Books are $10 pricier now.
GOTG: One of the artists for the book had their art put in an A.I. Art Generator, which wasn't done directly by WOTC or Hasbro.
Book/Deck of Many Things: A physical supplement to D&D provided by WOTC, they botched the design of the cards and had to delay the release of the cards.
12/11/23: Hasbro layed off 1,100 employees, including game designers and leads, for what is speculated to be over stock values (specifically) and greed (ultimately).
Edit: See the replies
About the Hadozee, they didn't remove the race just gutted and rewrote a huge part of this lore.
The most disingenuous part about it though is that they blamed it all on stuff carried over from the older editions when being slaves had never been a part of Hadozee lore in previous editions. Hell it wasn't even lore for the Yazirians in TSR's Star Frontiers, which the Hadozee where basically a transplant of.
It was like Haswotsee thought "hm the older books sure did a racism a lot, let's blame it on that and hope no one fact-checks it".
Aren't the Hadozee literally monkeys? How'd they mess up that badly?
@@B.-T.can you explain the difference between the lore in earlier editions and 5e more?
I don't feel like googling it, bc I'd probably have to sift through tons of shoddy ragebaiting 😅
They are literally the greedy and vile red dragon every party needs to kill. Do they not know what kind of audience supports them? Honestly I'll be surprised if anyone does at this point.
@@juliamavroidi8601 basically, in the older editions Hadozee were just gliding apes with human level intelligence who liked working for elves, not much else. They had no more a special origin than tabaxi or the hippo guys. In 5e all of a sudden they used to lack sapience, then spelljamming elves experimented on em to give em higher intellect and used em for slaves, until one slavemaster felt bad and led a revolution to free the hadozee, and now they still really hold the spelljammer elves in high regard.
That reaction to the Pinkertons was like the reaction to the Spanish Inquisition haha
"NO-body expects the ####### Pinkertons!"
I mean, they're basically the Capitalist Inquisition.
What the heck is the Pinkertons?
@@mediatorraptor3349 Google is free.
@mediatorraptor3349 A federally-funded organization of union busters from back in the late 1800's. If you were the owner of a massive steel/railroad/mining/etc. business and your workers were starting to make a fuss and talking about unionizing, you would call up the Pinkertons, and they would break up the unions through anything from infiltration and inside sabotage to straight up blackmail and even murder.
I'm actually surprised they're still around to this day
I will watch and signal boost every video I can find about Hasbro laying their employees off. It's the perfect capstone to the PR nightmare this year has been for them.
Its especially sad because anyone with half a brain knows that these layoffs happened in order to keep even more of Hasbro's record profits in the pockets of investors.
Get woke, go broke.
You can update it again now, as it's been revealed that part of those layoffs included the team from WotC that consulted for BG3. Hasbro rewarded the team that worked on the game of the year by telling them to f*** off two weeks before Christmas.
Just be careful with that statement, as many of that team were moved/let go/left in the six years since they initially consulted on BG3. Very few of that team were left anyway.
@@judemapp8804
...and letting go many people after game release is both common and obvious unless another - and similar - game is being developed.
Don’t forget! Those very expensive DnD shows that were supposed to come yet no one can find them!
That channel has been a NIGHTMARE to navigate. I feel bad for the people involved in making the shows. Even they're confused :(
I can't believe this didn't make the video...
@@annagarman8016 Odds are Duke didn't even know about it either.
Any links to find these videos?
@@B.-T.I only heard about them from dndshorts - and that was him saying he couldn't find them. Made me want to watch them though!
All Hasbro needed to do was NOTHING for the rest of 2023, let the video game awards bring in positive attention to D&D, and BG3's success *might* have fished their reputation out of a hole to some degree with new interest garnered if they didn't upset the fanbase again. They couldn't even do nothing right.
They had to get those employees out before the new year so they wouldn't have to renew their benefits or contracts.
It is sad the we already have to update this video
First
Isn't it
What happened?
@@MrQuigs1920 what you saw in the video. 1100 people were laid off so the company could look better in the eyes of the stock price.
@@icarue993 Yes that, it was announced 2 weeks before Christmas. Hasbro laying off 1,100 employees across their different companies.
Seeing this really shows how much WotC was screwed over this year, both by themselves and by others.
By themselves.
About the Pinkerton Incident, what I'd like to see is some follow-up on that story, I never saw anything a few days after it broke.
@@insanehiker5587can you give me context about it?
@@sergiovergaramontemiranda2116 This happened back in March or April timeframe. CZcamsr oldschoolmtg got his hands on a leaked Magic The Gathering card set somehow. I don't know HOW he got them because I didn't pay attention to that part but the guy apparently got them, or thought he got them, through legitimate means.
Oldschoolmtg then makes a video about said card set and inadvertently spoils something like seventy or eighty percent of the release, not realizing the cards weren't out yet and having neither been informed of the leak nor signed an NDA.
Instead of rolling with the leak or just asking for the cards' return, Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast sent the Pinkerton Detective Agency (Yes, THOSE Pinkertons. Yes just like RDR2. Yes they're still around. I know. Surprised the hell out of me too) to this dude's house the week after he does the video. The Pinkertons try to strong arm and intimidate him into giving the cards back. They partially forced their way into the guy's house and reduced his wife to tears with their tactics.
This would prove to be what Sun Tzu calls a 'strategic fucking error' because it's not like the guy you tried to bully isn't going to get the word out to his 6000+ subs and put your dumbasses on blast or anything. Then it's not like the video is going to go viral or something and get every TTRPG, TCG, and entertainment CZcamsr to cover your dumb decisions for the better part of a month. WOTC and Hasbro ended up with a PR stiff kick in the balls over it.
@@sergiovergaramontemiranda2116 The Pinkerton Agency, a group with a long standing history of union busting got called on a person who got magic cards before their release date.
I really do wish the Movie had done better, it was genuinely good. would have loved a sequel
Agreed. It had its problems, but it was fun and fast-paced enough to keep you from dwelling on the plot holes. At least it was for me.
I think it was the special effects that killed the budget, making it harder to earn back the money they spent. They said that if a sequel is going to happen, they will need to make the movie with a smaller budget. Technically it is not impossible to make a real good movie with a small budget, Godzilla Minus 1 has some really good CGI and Special effects and was made on a small budget of less than $15 million, so it is technically possible
@@sillerbarly4927It The movie also launched while the the OGL boycott was still running hot. They should have delayed it.
the ogl thing had people boycott it so yeah
@@Reoh0z Plus what little marketing I saw focused on "modern audiences", completely misleading how the movie was going to be. Glad I saw it still, because it's really good.
I want to word this carefully. There are about 17 day left in the calendar year, which means that in theory, there should not be enough time for Hasbro/WOTC to screw anything else up. However, it is still a possibility. If they do, it would be amazing.
Sooo.... Is that a challenge..?
@@N3K0MAN1A I am trying to specifically avoid saying it as a challenge,, as well as the cliche of invoking it by saying that it could not possibly happen.
I revisit this comment on the new year I guess
Hasbro rolls the dice...
@@Reoh0z *In the booming wrestling announcer voice*
CRITICAL FAIL *Epic fail foghorns play in the background*
It’s really a shame the movie flopped financially. It’s my favourite to come out this year next to ATSV.
I would highly recommend seeing Godzilla Minus One, best movie of the year in my opinion. Though the D&D movie was surprisingly good.
i thought it was going to be way worse than it was. watched it with my mom, who knows nothing about dnd and the forgotten realms, and we both enjoyed it. i couldn't stop laughing at the dragon they chose.
I just watched Honor among thieves, *a* *lot* better than I thought it would be. Hope it made enough for a streaming sequel, at least.
🚬😎
EDIT: Just checked, nope, it didn't make anywhere near enough.
I just watched the movie yesterday; it was a lot of fun. I particularly liked that that it focused more on the characters and was not afraid to be silly. Shame that it released at the same time as the Mario movie and had bad marketing.
@@matthewmuir8884Right? Honestly the goofy most moments made it feel more like an actual game of DND imo
I'm curious how many nails they are hoping to add to their coffin.
They might be actual vampires, so... a lot, probably
As many as it
takes to contain Strad.
Trust me, this matter will have to be re-visited multiple times before Christmas 😅
For clarity, that's 1100 employees across Hasbro, not just within WotC. However, it does appear that a lot of WotC staff at all levels have in face been abruptly axed.
Roughly 2,000 in total this year :(
Is Hasbro actively _trying_ to sabotage/destroy D&D?
I mean, it wouldn't be the first time they bought something to shut it down (looking at you, Cranium games!), but they _have_ to realize they're losing both money & loyalty with this
@@meganofsherwood3665 I'm only an accounting graduate, not aware of the precise internal picture, but I suspect that Hasbro is having a cash flow crisis and trying to stay solvent. Long term impact to their key brands is probably something that they can't afford to worry about in the face of possible impending doom.
@@meganofsherwood3665 Afraid not, they're just that divorced from reality. Hasbro has been making bad decisions for years now.
@@meganofsherwood3665 but theyre not losing money, the shareholders at least, and that's all they care about.
I swear it's like an evil wizard cast a curse to destroy dnd this year
I hear he lives on the coast.
@@TaranTatsuuchi The guy that sunk the Black Isles, right?
The dreaded Sorceres of the Bay
Ok hear me out: New video series/format where you have a headset and do skits as a D&D Customer Service Representative. But not like a real life CSR where you’re dealing with calls about Hasbro/WOTC crap, instead you’re dealing with calls about DM/Player/Campaign shenanigans.
That might be stepping on the toes of the guy doing DM therapy sessions
This would be a great idea! If you’re worried about stepping on toes, just invite the guy from DM therapy into it! It would be amazing!
WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU GAVE THEM UNLIMITED USES OF WISH!?!?
That's not a bad idea at all, the way you work around that I'd by monkeys pawing the shit out of each wish.
I've been told that the Hasbro board is OBSESSED with their stock prices, so these greasy cash grabs and mass layoffs make sense. It's Vecna-levels of evil, but it makes sense.
Now you understand the need to get rid of alignments! 😈😈😈🤣🤣🤣
Vecna level, or Asmodeus level?
@@LocalMapleAdmodeus can actually uphold a contract. Vecna does whatever he wants for the heck of it.
Can someone explain to me why this group is name make sense for a lich of a cooperation to do?
I hate shareholders in this industry. You think because a form of media had one big breakout, you're going to turn it into a routine thing. Tabletop video games, movies. It doesn't matter. They messed up everything.
What's the over-under that this video needs to be revisited before the end of the year? =/
On a lighter note? The delivery of "THE PINKERTONS?!" line still gets me every time. XD
I thought he was gonna say "I'm FIRED?"
The Pinkertons reaction was quite accurate
At this point as a homebrew creator I don't need to spend a dime on 5e. I just write and make up all my own content I dont need their books I already memorized the important content and the internet pirated the rest. So Wizards can just die off and the community of gamers will survive without them.
welcome to the ORC's project black flag friend!
I'm the same. I'm buying no new books, wrapping up my Rime of the Frostmaiden campaign and then moving on to World of Darkness, Exalted/Godbound or Savage Worlds, whatever my players like the most.
At this point, it is your fault. Stop answering THE PHONE!!!
I'm laughing on the outside, but crying on the inside.
You know that's been happening more and more lately.
The irony is this move is only going to hurt Hasbro stock even more, instead of help.
Stock values are not influenced exclusively by sales, but by consumer confidence and many other things.
And as we know WOTC's consumer confidence was at an all time high...
Wait no. Its somehow even worse than with 4e and they're loosing even more money than back then, faster.
Hasbro ain't killing WotC. Its just decided to stop trying to sell them. and looking at how much money they've lost for how long, it was a matter of time. Hasbro tried to help, you lot just blame them for WotC's sheer astonishing ineptitude.
hey hey hey, theres plenty of fuckups all around, it doesnt have to be *just* one source
Just a heads up, it is 1,100 workers before xmass, but there was almost another 1000 eariel this year sooooooooooo Yikes!
And more are coming, as soon as the company is legally permitted to do so (some of the fat had worker protections).
Me at the start of the year: I think I want to get into DnD!
Me at the end: You know Pathfinder looks pretty interesting
"What do you *mean* we did a racism?!" That had me in stitches.
It wasn't racist. A bunch of racists projected their own ridiculous views onto the product and for some bizarre reason WoTC obliged. Apologizing to an angry mob when you've done nothing wrong is just stupid.
@@gogeta667really putting the Die in die-versity. (I know what I said)
@@gogeta667 No, no they definitely pulled a racist.
@@dragongirl89115 How?
To be slightly fair the Pinkertons was MTG side of wotc not DND
same company, same people at the top
And now Netflix want to buy the rights to BG3 for a adaptation
What could possibly go wrong?(!)
Thanks for following up on this! I did think when the previous version was released that it was premature to release it in November. And I blamed myself for being unfair and harsh towards Hasbro, can you believe that? Thankfully, there isn't enough time left for them to make another scandal this year, right? ...RIGHT??
Jokes aside, I wish you a peaceful end of 2023. Your great sense of humor helped us cope with a lot this year, and you deserve it.
Vecna-levels of evil by Hasbro.
Watch me tempt fate! What else could go wrong?!
1,000 employees laid off!!!???
Before Christmas!!!???
Tommy Lee Jones from the Fugitive: "That company's a monster."
1,100
@@judemapp8804 Thanks, fixed it.
Why is this so sadly funny 🤣😭
Man it sucks the movie bombed. It was pretty good and a fun watch.
It didn't bomb
@funkymunky7935 if you go by the standard of finding the profit of a movie you double the production budget for things like advertising so going by that metric it lost 100 million
@@drakeloki4214 finding Prophet? You mean the movie was looking for Mohammed the entire time?
@@SImrobert2001 I'm not a good typists and my phone auto corrected so FO, you know what I ment.
@@drakeloki4214 That is fair. I just couldn't pass that opportunity up.
B4 Christmas!?! Ouch just brutal
Yo Duke, love what you're doing so far, also awesome to see you in person once! I'm trying to find a podcast with 3-5 folks discussing ttrpg stuffs instead of playing them and wondered if you'd consider doing something like that!
More tie-nomics. Great stuff.
The only thing I've bought that wotc got money for was the dungeon creatures and terrain. Although, that was for $2.99 at Ollie's, so they lost money.
They had already sold it to Ollie's, whether Ollie's sold it or not they already got some money, but considering Ollie's is making a profit at $2.99, Hasbro likely didn't even cover the cost of production.
0:24 It was a great movie, but I think the OGL caused fans to boycott it on top of unsubbing so hard from DnDBeyond that the Unsub button got removed and replaced with a “call in for a manual unsub” hotfix. Oh, and a bad release date due to the competition.
As for how bad the OGL 2.0 was, here is a brief summary of the big points. And since Star Wars KoTOR was made under OGL 1.0, I’ll apply it to the parent company Disney.
1. If Disney doesn’t sign the new OGL, they will be kicked out of the old OGL.
3. Disney the company owes Hasbro 25% of their revenue annually.
3. Hasbro owns the rights to Star Wars.
4. Hasbro can kick Disney out of the OGL for any reason.
5. If and when Disney is kicked out, everything under the OGL belongs to Hasbro, to do with as they will.
Since there's no way Brenna lee mulligan will make one of these about wotc, you're doing gods work sir
Thanks for all of these videos. I love them 😂
I honestly thought you would just update the old video, but lol here we go again! Let's prey nothing else happens at January or after. Also that the employees go to work at Kobold Press and Paizo
Hasbro: "Man, I'm so glad that the only 2 licenses that are earning our profits are doing exceptionally well lately."
Also Hasbro: proceeds to fire 1100 staff members, the majority being in Magic and D&D.
The funny thing about Hadozee debacle is how the players saw the slavery liberating thing. Players from the west saw a white man freeing black. For some reason. Players from Asia love it because of the parallel with Sun Wukong freeing the Flower Fruit Monkeys from jurisdiction of mortality.
To play the devil's advocate (from what I know): the layoffs is from Hasbro, which owns WoTC, but not WoTC themselves. Like everytime, it's the big boss creedy decision, not the "lesser" boss.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Only because it could be doesn't mean it is so. We do not have enough information to confirm anything sadly.
He address this in the video as it is Hasbro telling them to do it.
It's like they WANT me to not ever touch a product of theirs ever again.
remember back when a Christmas carol was written and a greedy businessman laying off a single employee before Christmas was considered so evil that he needed to be visited by three ghosts to set him straight?
For this story, though, they might have to send JESUS himself over there.
The nice thing about working in a big corporation is that responsibility for any decision is so diffused across so many people that nobody involved it it needs to feel any guilt.
This is very well executed and give lots of comic relief to such a sad string of events.
The year is still young
Games workshop - Finally a worthy opponent , our battle will be legendary
Excellent job
When truth is stranger than fiction, and reality claps back.
Lol, thank you for this!
I missed the first version of this video, but this is one of my favorite things you’ve done.
That movie was actually good what the hell.
A D&D movie was always doomed. Everyone said they'd go see it, but cancelled or no-showed at the last minute. 🙂
This was really good.
Ooh, came with a recap.
My table has switched to Pathfinder 2e and thus far it's amazing.
At this point it just feels like the share holders and big money makers know, that WotC is on an inevitable decline and just squeeze every last penny out of the company before it eventually goes bankrupt.
And yet it was poised for greatness...
Perfect
Yeah this hurts. Ouch.
I feel like D&D could become one of the biggest franchise again but they realy dont help themselves in the recent years ...
when you're making games workshop look kind and generous in comparison, you know you're doing wrong.
I haven’t even heard of most of this stuff
Hasbro more like "has not been cool bro!"
Wild working somwhere in which thst is not only considered but even bragged about.
😮💨
Yeah it's been one heck of a year.
Man... I know why they did this.. and it makes me mad that they actually did...
Investors only care for the value of their stock, wich means making a profit.. so how do you make a gigantic profit bigger? CUT COSTS AND BONUSES!
...Boom 1.1k. Now that record year is gonna be unmatched for a while! CEO take a bigger bonus!
>_>' yep that's why they do it.
Had a laugh then, lying in stitches now.
Dang, I haven’t been keeping up. Was just planning on sticking with 5e.
Honestly I am glad my friends andni have gotten into Pathfinder and other games recently. It really just makes every time Hasbro/WotC news comes out I feel very justified in branching out.
You know, I was on the fence about getting back into MtG despite WotC being a piece of shit because while they're definitely greedy, so is every other company. However, laying off a ton employees before fucking Christmas is a whole other level of fucked up to me. This event made it incredibly easy for me to never interact with WotC/Hasbro product ever for a long time.
Was low key waiting patiently for the hasbro bit.
🔥🔥🔥Hasbro CEO & WOTC CEO: this is fine, this is fine this…is…not fine…. 🔥🔥🔥 *takes 14d8 fire Dmg*
Ah the good old everyone works hard to get a record yeah so let's lay them off before the employees can enjoy the spoils so we can keep it all. And then before Christmas to boot.
No. This is a "JFC, this company is a bloated corpse and we need to let the gas out before it explodes". You don't fire 1100 people to make money. That scares off any and all investors
About the Pinkerton Incident, what I'd like to see is some follow-up on that story, I never saw anything more after it broke.
Okay who left the supply closet unlocked? You know you can't do that, Hasbro's management will go in there and eat all the glue again!
It’s here.
As long as hasbro rules, it's not a question of if they will make another mistake, but when and how.
This is great! It feels in the same vein as Brennan Lee Mulligan's CEO series.
And the journey continues XD
Someone at Hasbro really needs a good seeing to
I cast fireball.
Hold up.
The 6th edition really is coming in 2024 ?
Man, I got the books this Christmas 2023.
And hasbros heart shrunk 3 sizes that day
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To be fair, the main problem with DnD is the very company owning it... Some day I'd be really happy if more niche tabletops would get some spotlight, just putting every single egg in the DnD basket leads big corps to believe that this is a cash-worthy product that needs, uh, "external supervision and decision-making to bring revenue" :(
It's starting to happen. I'm as casual a player as casual gets and I decided that Hasbro/wotc won't get a single dollar from me pretty much ever again over the way theyve treat their customers. It's the principle!!
That's why Pathfinder/ Paizo was doing great that year
I'll play Devil's advocate here (but not really):
Splitting up into development teams and making our own niche systems is a bit labor-intensive, but if we need more systems out there, that's one way to do it. Making our own alternatives to players all over the tabletop gaming community is the way we make sure that WotC and Hasbro doesn't have a monopoly on fantasy TTRPGs. And more variety than we already have would start driving in the nails, so to speak.
Really makes me want to try a different system O.o
There are many, many out there
And this is why my entire group moved to pathfinder.
Worth it!
I loved the movie. Wish more people had went to see it
See you again in a week
Why do layoffs always come right before Christmas? What sadistic psychopath set the precedent for this that everyone else decided was a great idea?
In theory, you cut costs in December so that in the next quarterly meeting (roughly January/February) you can brag about how much profit you've GAINED.
@@swordplaysorceryThis reminds me of Christmas Vacation where the boss decided to remove the Christmas bonus.
So to some up the current situation at WotC in one sentence "EVERYTHING'S ON FIRE ON GOD!!!"
Yeaaaah...
In my friend group we are calling it 5.2e
It's like Hasbro took a look at Handsome Jack from Borderlands 2, saw how everyone liked that character and thought 'Hmmm, so if I act like this more people will like me and buy my stuff!' and just completely missed the point of that character.
Im still not gonna forget OGL