Hasbro/Wizards has laid off almost all of the people responsible for the $63M in digital licensing profits from BG3 they brag about in their investor letter. Two weeks before Christmas.
Meanwhile, Dropout (Game Changer, Dimension 20) has instituted a full profit sharing program with everyone who worked on their productions, the majority of whom are contractors.
Get the D&D people in your life a Dropout subscription instead of the newest 5E book this Christmas!
@RethinkJeff There's lots of great stuff that's produced/edited!
DesiQuest (https://www.desiquest.com/) is a new show with an excellent cast and phenomenal production (including the director of D20, Michael Schaubach).
CR has a few shorter and more tightly produced side-seasons like Exandria Unlimited and Candela Obscura.
Wizards briefly was doing good stuff with Battle for Beyond, though the team was laid off.
In audio-only land, NADDPOD and Worlds Beyond Number are both edited.
@RethinkJeff Yeah, totally fair. There's not a lot that quite hits the production of Dimension 20, either.
I'm a newer Actual Play convert (been playing for forever but also never really felt I had the time for something like CR; I came to Dropout through Game Changer) so I can't tell how much is just me and how much is this is actually the case, but it does feel like there's a huge surge in AP popularity and new programs right now!
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