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SpaceDrake wrote:WildManPiet wrote:No Darrington Press eh?
How sad.
Well at least they have their loyal fanbase.Like others have posted, the Darrington crew almost certainly have metaphorical - and perhaps literal - guns to their head. Hasbro will want them to continue to promote the D&D brand, and are certain to face major repercussions if they just cut out and run in the middle of a campaign.
If Matt's been smart (and I hope he has), any such agreements will only last to the end of the Bell's Hells campaign.
I keep trying to tell people this. CR probably has a legal quagmire to wade through before they can publicly say or do anything more than they already have. Like you, my hope is that their current advertising contract with WotC/Hasbro for DND Beyond only lasts until the end of Campaign 3 and after that they'll throw their full support (and by extension that of their fan base) behind it.
And if they don't, though I love them, I have my torch and pitchfork prepared.
I want to point out that
1) They may have already signed on, but requested that their name be kept out of announcements such as this to avoid legal issues.
2) Even if they don't sign on, that's not really going to change much. The ORC would still go through. CR and Darrington Press just wouldn't get to offer their input on its language.
Of course, they would bring with them the basically automatic support of their fanbase, but I don't know if that's really going to affect much.