Mainly yes, they don’t have to pay residual payments to creators or for any music they chose to license. Streaming shows that aren’t successful don’t drive new subscriptions or help maintain current ones, so they are a nickel and dime drain to their service. Based on whatever arcane tax laws that apply based on when…

I believe with streaming the company pays a fee to have the content available to stream and then there are residuals when it is streamed by someone. Cutting the shows saves the upfront fee as the low stream count isn’t adding value since people aren’t streaming it. 

when something is “aired” on traditional network television, it runs alongside ads, which is how the station affords the licensing fees to air it in the first place. essentially under the old system, money was coming in every time something was aired on television. thats not the case with streaming. you collect a…

By writing down the value of the assets they can remove whatever cost of funds was used to fund the assets on the balance sheet. Unless you understand corporate finance that statement will appear equally confusing. But it’s the streaming business model that makes this possible - the costs to develop these properties…

WotC owns AD&D, D&D, and it’s successors, which is inclusive of all of the official rule sets and associated IP that was created for D&D since the 70's.

Gary’s own home campaign was always kept separate and distinct from what was published for sale to the public. I’m guessing that is what is being fought over here.

You don’t even need the PHB. The core ruleset is on the WotC website and is downloadable as a pdf.

You don’t even need the PHB. The core ruleset is on the WotC website and is downloadable as a pdf.

I think it depends on what you do behind the anonymity. I mean, my account here is me, in all but name. It’s a pseudonym, not a “fake account”; all info, knowledge, thoughts are the same as you would get from me face-to-face. Where-as others create entire fake lives.

... like assassinate the NPC they were hired to protect for no other reason than because they could.

Welcome to the fold, that is the exact reason why DMing is one of the most rewarding things you can do with friends. We just had an extended session at my place yesterday given we were all off work at the same time for once (yay holidays)!

If you look at the last picture you can see that it’s highly modular with pieces maybe 1.5’x1.5’ or so.