The Business: You're A Sucker To Buy This Twice

The Professor shills for Sorcerers again, despite saying previous that SOBS is not your friend.

What a sucker. Not just him, but everyone else in Conventional Play that buys this bullshit.

The man admitted in the video that SOBS has the means to wage Lawfare and crush competition with ease and only does so because it proved to be easier to keep the second-order effects going in their favor for now.

For now.

Furthermore, he admits that the also-rans and never-weres leeching off SOBS had to scramble to make Legally Distinct products just in case.

You have to be a pants-on-head retard or a True Believing Pop Cultist (see Tuesday's post for definitions) to buy this bullshit. SOBS tried this stunt once; they can, and will, do it again for exactly the reasons that the Professor admitted: they can win, and break the copyleft, purely by the hammer of massive legal bills crushing them.

SOBS has every incentive to do that once the medium transition from Tabletop to Digital is past the No Return point, which is fast approaching.

SOBS doesn't care because they've turned D&D into a Lifestyle Brand and thus expect that they can weaponize Brand Cult psychology as well as Network Effects to their benefit. So what if the other publishers still, technically, exist?

In the Brand Cultist's mind there is only Current Edition. To this day one of the constant whinefest topics is "My players only want Current Edition"; good luck getting enough to break away otherwise, especially as the Professor (and most Conventional Play people) admit that most of people in Conventional Play are Brand Cultists.

When you're more concerned with the Brand than the thing that gives it substance, you're no longer fit for purpose and neither is the business behind the Brand.

You are a sucker if you buy this bullshit. SOBS proved it can't be trusted, and it is again saying "Trust me, bro!" You deserve all the shit you're going to get when SOBS finishes their plans for the Brand and rugpilled Tabletop into collapse if you do so.

Meanwhile, from the Clubhouse, the Bros and I will shrug and carry on. We're hobbyists, not Brand Cultists. We don't need that, and never have.