Dungeons and Dragons folk: The Beyond Printing extension for Chromium based browsers seems to do a pretty solid job backing up your #DnDBeyond content if you're worried about #WotC / #Hasbro shenanigans.
Well over 20 years ago Hasbro sold off its wildly successful games publishing division. Now they are looking to bring it back ? :hmm_cat: #gaming#hasbro
Während #Hasbro im Q1 insgesamt verliert (-24%) zeigt #WotC ein starkes Wachstum um 7%. Digital and licensed game sales am stärksten mit +14%, Tabletop gaming gesamt +5% und Magic the Gathering #MtG +4%
I picked up a pretty nice-looking CD/cassette player at the flea market and then I realized I got rid of most of my tapes from my last Volvo, so how am I going to test the cassette part? Except, wait, I still have one…
"#Hasbro has no problem taking money from companies funded by the Saudi government, but this partnership with #StumbleGuys, which at first blush seems a goofy and innocuous Fall Guys knockoff, is the first time that the #DnD brand has been in contact with a now wholly PIF* owned company."
I’m reading stories (well, a story) that Tencent is looking to buy #DND from Hasbro. I’m not certain how reliable the news site doing the reporting is though.
For the #DnD or #Hasbro nerd the working together is very notable.
Skydance was one of the other producers on some GI Joe and Transformers movies.
Tent poles the push cross promotion and tie-ins are kind of Skydance's thing -- they also did Mission Impossibles, Top Gun: Maverick, the Reacher film that didn't work, and things like Tomorrow War that still do well on streaming.
If you're a person that wants movie people to make movies Skydance and Paramount make sense.
People need to stop worrying about what #Hasbro#WotC is doing to #DnD. #RPG, at its core, is a very simple thing: rules, dice, paper, pencils, people, time and space, and a lot of snacks and beverages.
The genre transcends its progenitor. Your rules need to govern how to describe a character, how to describe the environment, how to resolve conflicts, and how to handle rewards/progression/improvement. All of it can be and in fact is made up.
What #Hasbro#WotC will decidedly NOT do is "kill" #DnD, not in any sense of the word. They will, eventually sell off the rights to the game, when it stops being profitable, because of their own stupidity.
But, "D&D", in the cultural sense, is a 50 year old industry-defining pasttime. It can't be "killed", even by malicious actors. Its spirit lives on eternally in too many of us for that to happen.
I'm not going to harangue you to "try other games" because I'm mad at #Hasbro#WotC, or because I think "other games" are better than #DnD#DnD5E (most of them are not), except to say that it can be beneficial for your understanding and enjoyment of the hobby to expose yourself to different ideas about how the key, core features of #TTRPG#gaming work in the minds of other people, and to see and know that the things you need to play are really very simple and inexpensive.
#RPGs were always meant from the very beginning of #DnD to be mostly #DIY, just like D&D itself started.
And, for the love of Selune, Lliira, Eldath, and Mystra (insert your preferred $deity value), #Hasbro makes the Basic Rules available for free download. It contains the most important bits of the framework, enough that you need never spend a penny, provided you are willing to supplement that framework with an active imagination (which really, is the first requirement to play, after all!)