I can't blame them for doing this. I can still say that it's a waste of time; these were Roll For Combat's end-of-year filler streams.
What astounds me is the continued resistance against the logical conclusion to Just Play D&D and dump the Also-Rans, Never-Weres, and Never-Wills by Stevie, Derik, and Pat despite acknowledging this state of affairs.
No, they even acknowledge that there is no competition for The Only Game That Matters. They acknowledge that everyone else is wasting their time and money pretending that this is not so, but then carry on in the same breath as if they didn't just confess their own insanity.
If they weren't trying to pretend that they were viable commercial operators, I wouldn't care; non-commercial hobbyist publication is how things ought to be in this hobby. The objection comes from the insistance that there is competition; there isn't, and they keep refusing to accept the conclusion that they ought to just shut down and do something else or openly become solely motivated by fulfilling patronage demands- i.e. being paid to do what someone else commissions them to make for them.
These people can't crash and burn fast enough.
You compete within the D&D Network Effect, which means only Past Editions can compete with Current Edition.
Not knockoffs. Not Temu D&D. Not Just So Theater Sports. Real D&D Editions.
Everything else is better off shutting down commercial operations and going non-commercial hobbyist publications or going with neo-patronage and just fulfilling commissions.
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