I'm actually very pro this.
Then people will hopefully stop playing d&d and start playing other systems.
What's the "Bluesky" of D&D?
Edit: Or Mastodon, etc.
Pathfinder?
looks at my Pathfinder stuff
thinks about it
Fuck :pain:
At least Paizo treats Trans people with respect and let their workers unionize
Also Pathfinder is just a better sword-and-board system
All i know about pathfinder is that apparently the first edition had a lot of kink stuff in it, and some very explicit bestiality stuff. I don't even know if its true, a friend who is into tabletop stuff told me.
Early PF was a spinoff of 3.5 and the thing about 3.5 was they were letting fucking anyone write books for it which PF inherited. I don't know if it's explicitly any freakier than 3.5 having books on which species could interbreed and what different species breast milk tasted like
The worst you can say about early Pathfinder is that they really wanted to stand out from D&D, so everything was just maximalized
Ogres weren't just maneaters, they were also incestuous sex predators
There's not just one evil nation of slavers, but several and slavery is even in some of the "good" nations
Goblins weren't just nasty little level one fodder, they were violent little firestarters
I don't know where beastiality comes in, unless they're just upset that they had catfolk, gnolls, and ratfolk stuff in there
That's uncalled for, Pathfinder actually takes some critical thinking skills.
Pathfinder is too cool to be Bluesky (as a business model, I've never played).
It should be Draw Steel or one of those other new ones.
D&D but you feel a slight guilty twinge when subscribing to dndbeyond
dndbeyond
The blue checkmark of DnD
Recreating Disco Elysium's system
The DM is getting lazy. Wealthy racist villian plotting to own the realms is so overused. Especially when a low level rogue can easily one shot them. 
"we need to update the rules with tech trees and fog-of-war"
Apparently polytopia isn't even particularly interesting as a civ game or RTS or whatever it is.
It's fine to play on the toilet at work but Musk acting like it's the true Game of Kings shows what a bazinga brain he is lmao
Apparently he would always lose to Grimes so is she the reincarnation of Hannibal or something
11/28/24
Well, if he hasn't bought it by now, maybe he just forgot about it...?
Keep feeding him ketamine. He can't buy DnD if he keeps having to changed his soiled pants.
What if he balances his ketamine diarrhea with opiates constipation?
Don't give him ideas now!
timestamp. this was a particularly ridiculous claim he made, but it's nine months later so I doubt it's actually happening
Eh even if this does go through idgaf. Dnd (and other pen&paper RPGs) are so player driven it doesn't really matter who owns it. Don't like the current edition? There's like 5 - 7 editions of dnd depending how you count them, a few pathfinder editions, and countless other role playing games out there, take your pick and find a group.
Hell, maybe it would kick off a renaissance if people didn't default to dnd as The role playing game. I'd love to get a Shadowrun game together some day...
Why do you need Hasbro to play D&D?
There was some bullshit about the licensing. I forget what it was, but it's a string to be pulled in the cultural web
Hmm... Risk of Pinkertons being sent to my house, or 6th Edition being a rewrite of F.A.T.A.L.
Yeah, I'll still risk getting shot.
Pathfinder continues to remain the superior system. Especially considering the majority of content is already available to the masses.
Looking forward to Grok designed Magic cards and more anime booba on every female character 🙃
Pretty sure wizards of the coast has already been found to have accepted AI art
Also Magic has been a little trash for a while now. Spiderman as a summonable monster?
It's Fortnite the card game now. Nice Spiderman, I'm gonna counter it with my SpongeBob Counterspell, equip the Buster Sword to Aragorn, and power up a spaceship 😬
You know, I can see them torn on this.
Anime booba might make them happy and own the imaginary strawman that didn’t actually exist during gamergate, but anime is made by scary brown people and not Red-Blooded All-Americans^TM^. Also, booba might be too sexy and sex is an eeeevil invention of the debbil!
New rules!
Only one race can be used by players: Aryan.
Only male characters allowed.
Female characters can be rented at an inn to follow the main character, but aren't playable.
🤮
GURPS stays winning
Yeah, that'll definitely save his plummeting popularity.
It certainly won't inspire yet another mass exodus from a game that is already fledgling from company mismanagement.
He'll kill the already shaky popularity of a frankly terribly-designed ttrpg and he'll poison the well on other brands wanting to sign on to Universes Beyond. Overall, it could be much worse, even though the damage that he will do waifuizing and AI-ifying MTG is going to be miserable.
The one good thing I can see coming from this is that people stop referring to the genre of ttrpg as D&D.
Please, I am begging the swagbros to stop trying to gentrify gaming and just stick to mainstream culture. Sportsball and country music are more their speed.
Leave geekdom to the outcasts, you normies already have your own shit.
Madison Square Garden has been totally sold out for several live-play dnd games at this point, the ship has sailed on "geek" hobbies being insular.
More than you can afford pal 
or at least that is what I wish I could say 
to the richest hitlerite on the planet.
He can take my THAC0 from my cold dead hands! And I invite him to try because it's a very low number indeed.
Stop-posting has breached badposting containment
Stop-posting except it's people begging billionaires to stop posting on Twitter
ELI5 What happens then? Isn't DnD something you build from scratch in paper?
Isn't DnD something you build from scratch in paper?
Kind of. Wizards of the Coast sells the rules to the game and sells pre-written adventures for groups to play. Many groups use the pre-written ones, many groups make their own adventures from scratch. In the past when WotC has pissed enough people off, plenty of people kept playing D&D but simply stopped buying new books. Plenty more people switched away from D&D to other (frankly better) games.
The thing that complicates this now is the prevalence of digital tools over pen and paper. I haven't played D&D with a group that used paper sheets in years. The problem is that WotC is very strict about not allowing anyone else to build tools that compete with their subscription-based digital character sheet. If you want to use a digital sheet, you have to use D&D Beyond.
And D&D Beyond is expensive. The last time I looked into it, you had to buy digital copies of the new books you wanted to use at the same price as the hardcovers. And then if you wanted to share them with your table (and you definitely do) you needed to pay a monthly subscription. This results in a lot of groups with a major sunk cost of the hundreds of dollars tied up in online content. Leaving that ecosystem would be "wasting" the money they put into it.
The last time WotC did something greedy and pissed off their players, I saw groups go one of two ways.
The first group I was in was heavily invested in D&D Beyond and they came to every session up-in-arms about what WotC was doing. They couldn't believe it! But they also couldn't give up D&D or be bothered to learn a new game. The group ended up dissolving for unrelated reasons, but the last time I checked the guy who was the most mad is still paying his DND beyond subscription.
The other group I was in at the time was not at all invested in D&D Beyond. One of them texts the group asking if we wanted to play Lancer or Wanderhome next. I asked if switching games was because of the recent scandal and she told me she hadn't even heard of it.
ELI5 What happens then?
Tldr some people quit and play other games. Most people get mad but stay. Musk probably tanks the company anyways doing what he does best
You can. It's called "homebrewing" (adding/changing rules to suit your needs) and "hacks" (using the core rules of an RPG while transforming it into something else, like using the rules for D&D in a game set in The Sopranos). D&D has rules you can play straight from the book(s), which a lot of groups do.
....which is one of the problems of D&D. It often requires so much homebrewing and so many house rules you're better off just making your own rules to begin with. Or using a system with a narrower focus (like playing an organized crime game, instead of trying to force The Sopranos into D&D).
And so the rise of Pathfinder continues.
Hasbro and Elon deserve eachother
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