D&D’s corporate overlords have “ideas” about milking more money from the franchise.
I would not at all be surprised if one day they moved everything to digital formats and then just slapped a big ol’ subscription fee on it all for access. I give D&D another 5-10 years before they stop printing paper books entirely. Just a hunch, of course, but…yeah.
Can I intereset you in an open source RPG before the Monstrous Manual macros start limiting your reading time to your subscription level?
Looks really interesting! Loving the Story Points mechanic. Will definitely check this out! Thanks for the tip!
I would actually be ok with that…
I wouldn’t. I like to own my gaming materials and not have my campaign at the mercy of someone else’s whims.
I get that. That’s not so much what I’m disagreeing with. It’s more that I prefer my materials to be digital over paper, so I won’t miss paper when it’s gone
That’s fair. I just dislke more and more of my favorite pasttimes becoming more and more subscription based. Music, movies and now (potentially) ttrpgs.
I would like more computer games, especially ones that aren’t in early access for 3+ years, but when burgies and their lackeys talk in that tone, they usually mean things even more scummy than the constant MTG gallop.
The bourgeoisie just have to go and ruin everything, don’t they?
For all the good parts of 4E, one problem was that it was certainly over-monetized, with hardbacks being released every month and a very expensive online character builder. With 5e, the plea to the higher-ups reportedly was that “just let us make a version ‘for the fans’, a labor of love, and you make money off of t-shirts and pinball games and such if D&D becomes a valuable brand again”… and it became the best-selling edition.
Now I don’t know what the heck they are doing. The fact that they own D&D beyond is not a good sign.
