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Well if anything was signed at Gen Con I doubt we'll find out about it right away.
Who would defect to FG? That's a sincere question, not a statement or challenge. I looked into FG when the WoTC deal was announced, but if you just want digital character sheets and maybe some encounter management, but don't want VTT, it seems like a lot of money for an application whose features and strengths would mostly go unused.
I'm not knocking FG, if I played with a group that was not co-located, I would own it already. But I don't want a VTT, I just want digital character sheets, some basic encounter management, and integration with RW.
Even if I lose all hope of HL and RW getting DnD 5e licensed content, I don't', see a compelling reason to spend the money for FG and all the DnD 5e content, at least until I decide to give VTT a go.
Honestly I think the real question would be an agreed upon price. Fantasy Grounds is very expensive for your buy in already, especially as a GM. LWD tends to keep prices at $20 for a base system and around $9.99 for add-ons.
I won't be using FG. I'm already invested in HL & d20Pro (via the recent Kickstarter).
I also know that 5e will sit on the shelf gathering dust until we get HL support.
Yeah, but I think there are more people that are the other way around: they won't use HL until it gets 5e support.
And neither of us like the subscription model of d20pro.
There's no subscription model for d20Pro... Can't remember the name of the one you're probably thinking of. Roll20?
I'm running a campaign in a world I'm creating myself, and RW was the best product for me to manage it. But if I were interested in running WoTC's canned adventure paths, I would definitely consider FG.
@Ddaley, did you play Lost Mine of Phandelver at table? How useful was FG at table if you are not using the VTT functionality?
Some assumptions above require clarification.
In general, the only companies who actually sign something at GenCon or other such events are the small ones. For sizable companies, meetings and discussions take place at GenCon, but any contracts must still go through lawyers, so nothing gets signed at GenCon. And, in the case of Wizards, they don't even send people of sufficient clout to GenCon to actually attempt to work through licensing details.
So nothing of major note typically gets signed at GenCon (unless it's more of a ceremonial signing after all the lawyers are done in advance of GenCon). And even that's not possible for anything with Wizards.
I find it hard to believe that LW is being hardheaded. Even if LW make little to no profit from the WoTC IP, having that content available would lead to more sales of HL and RW.
I suspect that this is all on WoTC.
For what it's worth, I have been mentioning Realm Works every chance I get on the wizards forums. Not sure if that helps at all...
Some assumptions above require clarification.
In general, the only companies who actually sign something at GenCon or other such events are the small ones. For sizable companies, meetings and discussions take place at GenCon, but any contracts must still go through lawyers, so nothing gets signed at GenCon. And, in the case of Wizards, they don't even send people of sufficient clout to GenCon to actually attempt to work through licensing details.
So nothing of major note typically gets signed at GenCon (unless it's more of a ceremonial signing after all the lawyers are done in advance of GenCon). And even that's not possible for anything with Wizards.