I don't think a Hasbro exec is going to look kindly on one of the digital platform licencees being so insecure that they have enabled a whole platform's worth of what will in their eyes surely be piracy, whatever the actual legal situation. I'd be eyeing the licence terms pretty nervously if I were them, not least because of the aforementioned scraping to Foundry. The problem for D&D Beyond is that they are 100% dependent on the whims of Hasbro. I'm pretty sure WOTC/Hasbro will be less than delighted about it. The mere fact that you can share via Foundry without the scope of checking that D&D Beyond's campaign share player limit is respected shows that it is not likely to be using the service as intended. Indeed I'm not sure what the legal situation with the D&D Beyond data scraping is. So I don't necessarily mean that the scraping is illegal. If they are really thinking about it, their smart move would be to license a limited version of Foundry or perhaps create a paid addon for Foundry that gets a direct pipeline to all of that lovely data they've made so accessible.Īside: I'm old, I use hacker in the old-fashioned sense of "a person skilled in information technology who uses their technical knowledge to achieve a goal or overcome an obstacle, within a computerized system by non-standard means", as Wikipedia has it. There are a lot of small pieces already there and they do high quality work. discord, a linked rollbot, and so on) and probably to just have a new subscription tier. If they go, their approach will be to leverage what is already there (i.e. They already have very, very key portions of the puzzle digitized and easily accessible on a proven platform. I would be more concerned about the DnD Beyond crew coming to play with a VTT entry than WotC. So actually running a campaign with scraped data isn't giving the players anything different from what they almost certainly already had access to see. D&D Beyond allows you to share all of your books with like a dozen other people that participating in your campaigns. legal access) and so I think it very likely that Foundry users added a nice boost to earnings there. The way this stuff was set-up was to almost guarantee a subscription to D&D Beyond (i.e. As for hacking, that assumes an unlawful use of the service and it's data. From what I could gather, at least one of these fellows was in contact with D&D Beyond and had learned enough to know what their data policies were. The are two devs that did this, though one has sort of fallen behind the other. The lack of 5E core books can't possibly have done them any good, and they didn't have Foundry's hacker to scrape from D&D Beyond.
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