https://paizo.com/blog/paizo-restructuring-a-difficult-update-about-our-future

>>98180533
Get out of here if you can't read a block of text and comprehend it-- you're ruining tabletop gaming.

>If I recall correctly from when Diamond fell over, there is some form (I forget the specific name of the thing - it got mentioned on the Legal Eagle episode on the Bricks and Minifigs fiasco) that you are supposed to file when you put a lot of value of goods on consignment, that would have protected publishers from the leins.

>>98180533
These are traditional game alright. Weimar Monopoly. Do not pass go.
All hail God Emperor Dungeons & Dragons!

>>98180527
It's always legal when someone with more money and better lawyers than you does it. That is the state of the world.
Not that I'm sad that Diamond went bankrupt, Steve Geppi fucking murdered indies in the 80's, so getting gutted by predatory lenders is fair play. Just too bad for everyone else involved.

>>98180533
TSR going bankrupt and getting bought by WotC which later got bought by Hasbro is an important moment in the history of the hobby of "traditional games"

Why do you entertain the troll.

>>98180535
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>>98180663
Oink oink corpo slave paypigs!

>>98180668
In case newfag retards can't tell it's a new shitpost they shouldn't take seriously

>>98180675
It's been here longer than you thoughbeit.

>>98180527
And nothing of value was lost.
Let's hope Wizards of the Coast is up next.

>>98180710
That's not a good thing

>>98180527
Yeah I'm sure JPMorgan is doing this on purpose to screw over Paizo in an attempt to make Hasbro's ticker move up like the tiniest fraction. Like you guys know that DnD isn't even close to the biggest money-maker at WotC let alone at Hasbro entirely.

>>98180830
Newfag.

>>98180532
>In January of last year, our longtime book‑trade distributor, Diamond Comics, declared bankruptcy. Diamond handled Paizo products for major retailers like Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Ingram, and our agreement with them was based on consignment (meaning we paid to ship products to their warehouse and were only paid when those products sold).
>When Diamond collapsed, the situation became far more complicated:
>JP Morgan Chase claimed a lien on all products stored in Diamond’s warehouse, including nearly $10 million in Paizo inventory. We cannot currently access this inventory, pending ongoing litigation.
Paizo and dozens of other publishers have been in court ever since, fighting to reclaim our own products.
>Diamond’s exclusive contract prevented us from immediately moving to a new distributor, even after they stopped selling our books. A judge terminated that contract earlier this year, but Diamond has appealed, delaying resolution.
>The result has been devastating. Paizo lost nearly $2 million last year, had to write off nearly half a million in additional sales covered by the bankruptcy, and book‑trade sales remain far below historical levels. While sales through Paizo.com and hobby retailers have grown over the same period, they have not been sufficient to offset these losses.
Corporate scum in America really are bold. Then they cry when someone takes justice in their own hands. Trash.

>>98180527
>So, JP Morgan just fucked over Paizo.
It was Diamond Distributors doing it and they are screwing over everyone whose inventory they still have in warehouses that they can't pay for.

No one should trust Diamond after they announced in 2020 they were going to "temporarily" stop operations after taking everyones money because of the COVID outbreak and that they would sue anyone who changed distributors to actually get their products to stores. Dc called their bluff and started outselling Marvel for the first time in years and has been riding that wave since.

>>98180674
I love when commies encounter someone who isn't commie

>>98180527
Episode #2716 of game publishing being an amateur hour clownshow

>>98180527
Traditional games?

>>98180527
Neo-feudalistic lords think their time is now and the world is theirs but really they're just fodder for internet shitposters to mock, ridicule and belittle for every little stupid thing they do. How long until they try to make it illegal to cyberbully rich people in addition to the chosen ones?

>>98180668
Which one is the troll? The one posting about news relevant to traditional games or the ones posting about board culture they can't control?

>>98180527
go woke go broke

>>98181690
probably the spammer who got rightfully deleted XD

>>98181372
Diamond has been the scummiest distributor since the 90s and they have always been colossal shitheads who were allowed to fuck over the entire comics industry uncontested because the US government didn't care about picture books getting fucked over.

>>98181320
Would Paizo have been able to call their bluff, or is there a chance they would have been locked into some multi-year contract with them even if they saw the rats fleeing the ship? DC probably has more money to throw around than Paizo does.

>>98181702
This one ? >>98180533
Its a bot. Its not even a troll. Get your shit straight. 0.o

>>98180527
Cursory google search says it's not just Paizo's stock being held. It's a little under 130 different publishers.

>>98180821
This was done by the ghost of nonces past specifically to aid wotc

>>98180867
>”my slave master isnt that petty!”
Surely

>>98180527
Don't give a shit, let Paizo and WOTC both burn for the overall health of the hobby.

>>98181827
Along with 126 other companies caught up in this bullshit.

>>98181745
>Americans are now finding out what happens when everyone depends on a single corporate chockpoint for their needs
Remember to act according to your own self interest and not what griftoids tell you on the internet.

>>98181843
Not every company has the same distribution agreements with Diamond, some may have more valid claims as creditors than Paizo

>>98180527
You think this is an insidious plot of JP Morgan deliberately fucking Paizo because of their Hasbro shares and that's because you have no fucking perspective at all.

Paizo are incredibly small fish. Fish that aren't really worth something like JP Morgan's time to fuck with. Especially since they're competing with, what, Dungeons and Dragons? Something that is effectively a vanity project for WoTC? D&D isn't a big part of Hasbro's earnings, and fucking with their smallfry competitors doesn't matter.

JPMorgan is concerned about getting their money out of Diamond. Which means that they're doing whatever they can to make sure that every cent that they are legally allowed to extract out of Diamond, they do.

Hell, JPMorgan aren't even the ones enforcing the exclusivity contract. All they've done is put a lien on everything in Diamond's warehouse - which includes Paizo's books but also contains a bunch of other shit. Hell, depending on how some stuff was handled when WotC swapped distributors, there might even be some old wotc product stuck in Diamond's warehouses as well.

The people enforcing the exclusivity, and tying up the Paizo product, is in fact Diamond themselves. Who are, correctly, trying to grasp at every straw of value that they have. Everyone who jumps ship right now is another source of revenue gone, and another means to repay their creditors lost.

You're inventing a nefarious conspiracy when really, it's a largely indifferent creditor trying to get money out of an incompetent distribution company that's fucking over a publisher.

>>98181890
>can someone please think of the multimillion dollar stock owned companies???!!!!!

>>98180935
That's not an argument

>>98181321
This
Buy buy BUY MORE or you're a commie

>>98181861
Those other 130 or so companies ARE getting screwed in the same way where their inventory is being kept from them because JP Morgan and Diamond pulled the legally allowed, but morally retarded move to drag it through court for several more months until it can land in front of a judge who will tell them to cut that shit out, only for them to, again, file a "nuh uh" request that will drag it out for months more.

>>98181843
Good. The more corpos that burn, the better.

>>98182003
I'm not going "poor JP Morgan." I think they suck ass in the way that all money lending banks suck ass. I'm saying that inventing some deranged conspiracy theory of JP Morgan trying to kill Paizo for some marginal gains on their Hasbro stocks is stupid. They're still doing the bastard work of debt collection, but there isn't some ulterior motive here.

It's also, and I really must emphasize this, taking blame off of the real shitheads here - who is Diamond. Diamond are the ones who made the decision to enforce the exclusivity clause and prevent Paizo from moving their stock to a new distributor. A company that had no real means to fulfill their obligations to their clients holding the client's goods hostage in the fleeting hopes that they can pay their debts to their creditors are the shitheads.

>>98182123
there's no conspiracy because they're taking products from people who already paid for them. if this was a single person doing this then all the morons and news would be over it saying how the west has fallen, criminality is unstoppable. but since the criminals are the rich fucking over others then the damage control is rolling up

>>98181320
post on the TGstation forums more, Crag.

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just read the official announcement and came to make thread(good thing I decided to check catalog this time)
Paizo is pretty fucked, huh?
I thought their adventure modules sold like shit becauase they were garbage(I still feel personally insuled by warden one), but looks like they got fucked by sellers

>>98182236
The stuff has also sold like shit because theyre garbage
Paizo chased the same faggot new gen geeks as 5e and got left with scraps instead of cornering a grog market (3e fanbase is still totally up for grabs right now)
Nobody sees a modern paizo book and is excited to pick it up. No inspiring art, or great DM tools or anything. Just pure cozy fantasy slop

>>98182236
>>98182275
Remember when Pathfinder used to be slightly edgy? Pepperidge Farms remembers.

Who from the 3.P era even still works at Paizo? The early Adventure Paths at least had a strong editorial hand behind them and tried pushing some conceptual envelope or other.

>>98180527
lol based, hope Pozzo goes bankrupt

>>98182123
Well if i were a conspiracy theorist i would call it monopoly building on the expectation that wotc's ai dm plans will finally get d&d to a mass market and save hasbro from it's impending bankruptcy. It might not make money to fuck a few mil out of paizo, but it costs a shitload for hasbro to go under and take all of WOTC's IP with it. Especially since ai is telling me wotc cost hasbro 325 million, so losing dominance in ttrpgs must be worth at least that much on paper to shareholders and vaulers

>>98182015
Correct, unironically. Communist pig-dogs are the only people who don't pay for the books they use. Your seething rage over people who aren't poor paying for their entertainment only makes our wallets fatter.

>>98182367
Your taxes don't make up for 0.00001% of the things you use.

>>98182380
My taxes don't cover anything, since I'm smart enough to not need to pay any. Loopholes exist and are easy to exploit.

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>>98180527
>How is this even legal?
It's not, but possession is 9/10ths of the law so they still have to litigate to get their property back.

>>98182387
>since I'm a communist pig dog
ftfy

>>98181618
Kill yourself retard

>>98180527
>Paizo's probably going under soon-ish
i'm still glad I definitely dropped d&d for pf2. I just wished they wrote better plots and characters instead of trying to pander to the same colourful crowd as wotc

>>98182519
Same. I hate how every time I'm writing my own adventures and characters they break in to my house and destroy all my hard work.

>>98182344
>Especially since ai is telling me wotc cost hasbro 325 million, so losing dominance in ttrpgs must be worth at least that much on paper to shareholders and vaulers
That purchase was 26 years ago. The cost is no longer a factor to shareholders.

>>98181699
go woke get robbed

>>98182344
>Especially since ai is telling me wotc cost hasbro 325 million, so losing dominance in ttrpgs must be worth at least that much on paper to shareholders and vaulers
The majority of WotC revenue is and pretty much always has been MtG.

>>98182123
>I think they suck ass in the way that all money lending banks suck ass.
That's cope, they got fined out the ass for being uniquely dickish.

>>98182541
>the fact that you can cook your own food means you can't say fast food is unhealthy

>>98181195
>put a party of adventurers together
>get into the warehouse
>liberate the loot
Find the flaw

I remember my uncle complaining about Diamond around 2000+ because they made kt difficult for independent comic book stores to succeed. I wish I knew the details.

>>98182057
>Good. The more corpos that burn, the better.
I'm seeing a big overlap with commie retards who can't handle reality and people who use gaming for escapism. You really think every little game company is a big evil corporation?
>people should spend all day every day developing games for me for free while living in their mom's basement
>how dare they try to make a living

>>98182344
>AI DM
That sounds like a complete nightmare scenario.

Woke faggots deserve what's coming to them. Based JPMorgan. Based Diamond. Fuck the left.

>>98182387
Post loopholes

>>98183183
nightmarish AND stupid; they're esentially making pc RPGs over again, but worse
>>98182541
I can prepare a published adventure in a fraction of the time it takes to write my own stuff, anon. I would love to devote most of my free time to work on my setting, but it just isn't possible, and using paizo material also helps me to get better at writing my adventures

>>98183116
>food analogy
Fat fuck

>>98182519
>trying to pander to the same colourful crowd as wotc
Here's something you need to realize: they aren't "pandering" to this crowd, they are part of this crowd themselves. They are true believers, not grifters, as retarded as that makes them.

>>98183134
10 Million worth of Paizo Books. You're going to need a lot of hands. And there's bo way we're getting in and out quietly. I dunno boss. Be simpler to just get all the stock insured and burn the whole warehouse down.

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>>98183474
Not before the rogue gets his share.

>>98183451
Well, fuck, I thought they were just boomers grifting on the woke crowd like the big shots in WotC, but guess I'm wrong
and nobody will be interested in picking up their stuff if Paizo goes under, will they?

>>98184061
JP Morgan had better start an RPG company LLC pronto and whiteout the images in the books or Paizo will sue them for copyright infringement. Kek.

>>98182123
>but there isn't some ulterior motive here
There obviously is, Hasbro and Paizo are direct competitors, but more than that Hasbro is the only other real company (not even a big company) in the elf game business, which makes them the only significant obstacle to Hasbro’s desire to claim basic D&D concepts as their intellectual property (via specious lawsuits which small basement-based publishers won’t be able to stand up to).

>>98184673
>(via specious lawsuits which small basement-based publishers won’t be able to stand up to).
Remain vigilant but the internet makes it harder for big shots to troll lawsuits. A big company like Hasbro starts fucking with the industry they'll find their opponents crowdfunded or pro bono.

>>98181195
Legitimately how is this legal? You lucked into a competitor's products and then said "Lol no you can't have the stuff you legally own"

Shouldn't the start and end of it be that they can move the stuff out of the warehouse but they have to store it themselves elsewhere?

>>98180527
lmao, hilarious

>>98183230
https://www.irs.gov/privacy-disclosure/tax-code-regulations-and-official-guidance
it's all in there

>>98185111
>Legitimately how is this legal?
Law in USA is made by the rich for the rich.

>>98185111
"Possession is 9/10ths of the law"

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I wish nothing but the worst for Paizo. Here is one of the poor xisters they're going to have to fire, theyms has resorted to begging for rent money on temu twitter.

>>98185708
>Decolonize TTRPGs
What... what is that supposed to even mean?!

>>98186084
Presumably it means they want to move into the rpg space, subjugate the native geeks, and rewrite history to make themselves look like the noble benefactors.

>>98186084
It means make it gay and brown.

>>98186084
social posturing, because if they don't present themselves as enough of an "activist" (even if it's entirely performative and they're not accomplishing anything) they're liable to be caught up in the next round of purity spiral purges

>>98186084
Racist but against Whites

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>>98186390
No no, I get it that it's lefty talk and all, I'm trying to figure out the literal meaning. Who are the TTRPG natives that got colonized? Does this guy propose he and his buddies cut the bullshit and try to enter the hobby properly? Should only injuns play TTRPGs that use all parts of the character sheet like their ancestors did before the mean medieval europeans arrived? Like, what?!

>>98186983
>Who are the TTRPG natives that got colonized?
All the losers itt that don't have their own groups.

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>>98186983
Ironically whites invented wargames and by extension, ttrpgs.

So any non-whites playing ttrpgs are the colonizers.

Only whites are ttrpg natives

>>98186983
>Should only injuns play TTRPGs that use all parts of the character sheet like their ancestors did before the mean medieval europeans arrived?
okay I lol'd

>>98187070
>Ironically whites invented wargames
Indians, no?

>>98187116
Nah, it was Germans
Kriegsspiel

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>>98187116
>Developed in the early 1800s by Georg von Reiswitz and refined by the Prussian Army, Kriegsspiel became the first standardized wargame adopted by a military organization to train officers. It is widely considered the grand-grandfather of all modern wargames and tabletop roleplaying games (including Dungeons & Dragons).

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>>98187157
>germans
I thought you mean Greece and petteia, but holy shit, why would you care about germanic barbaric tribes copycats?

>>98186983
It is a purely racist term to mean anything done by Whites

>>98187232
>if your enemy dies you lose
Yeah, sure boss. FISTS UP FOR XISTER.
>Millenial queer
On second thought let's just not.

>>98187232
I just realized you think backwards. You take the end result you want and think all the way back to what you assume leads to it. Then you talk to that assumption because you already have your strategy for beating it in an argument.
Bringing up jews is a part of that strategy.

>>98187232
Non wokies who get drafted to die for israel will be armed to fight the draft enforcers

There's no way he got banned. That's him deleting his singular post.

>>98187116
>rolling dice
>I WILL SHOW YOU MY TRUE POWAR

>>98186983
There's no meaning, it's just pure virtue signalling.

>>98187202
>but holy shit, why would you care about germanic barbaric tribes copycats?
Why would non-whites play games by Germanic barbaric tribes? They're so icky, you should definitely stop playing D&D and wargames.

That would show us whites, force us to only play with eachother

>>98187614
Not him, but fuck you. The guy who used to DM for me is like, green.

>>98185708
This post right here is a big example of why things get worse instead of better. You posting an opinion from this person on Twitter with their absolutely empty take suddenly serves to justify a giant satanic corporation fucking not only over Paizo, but over a hundred other publisher of books, comics and hobby creatives. You don't stand in principle against an evil action like fucking over small publishers and robbing them and by extension, robbing the people who may like to buy these. No, you have to TAKE the side of the bastard billionaires because it makes an imaginary person in your head mad. Unaware that they're spitting on your face because for them you're not different from the person you just posted in that twitter screenshot.

>>98186983
There's some really weird things that come out of this lens.
There's stuff like Free Kreigspeil trying to make osr dnd less about going into the dungeon and killing goblins. I don't think it worked but that was a lot of what they were up to, I think in practice it was more about being able to put a
>keep on the borderlands and gygax are bad
boiler plate on stuff to sell in itch.io
There are things like Cyote & Crow, which looked like a fairly standard ttrpg when I read it, so I think the focus was more on representation. Something like afrofuterism presenting the game as made by the cultures its representing being more authentic or perhaps just pleasing to those people. Not a lot interesting mechanically, mostly a sales pitch and award bait but I can understand how it worked.
There was an actually interesting game called The Quiet Year, more a map making group thing, some of the people became uncomfortable with the colonial settler narrative of post apocalyptic fiction (I don't have this discomfort but there it was for them and their ilk) so made a variation as fantasy humanoids recovering from an encounter with the conquistadors or similar that was actually interesting to play.

It mostly means changing the use of ttrpgs as story telling devices from a tool of the colonizers to a tool of the colonized. Most of the results were not substantially different and primarily focused on PR with some outliers. Its a product of low level propaganda war integration, its so common place its a marketable pitch to people who want to feel Good for just doing what they were already doing, playing nerd games.

Why are trannies so interested in fantasy? Oh wait their entire life is fantasy nevermind kek. This is like the lego thing but even gayer wow!

>>98187646
I don't understand what you mean. Why would you play an icky game made by those Germanic barbarians?

Traditional games?

>>98187769
That person is not imaginary, though I wish they were. They are a representative of evil forces that are trying to kill my race. No billionaire ever called me a privileged incel chud Nazi Trump supporter. Fuck you and fuck leftists. I side with billionaires, banks and corporations 100% of the time over some anti white tranny leftist.

>>98187799
>Cyote & Crow
Let me guess, injun focus, but openly made by descendants? That's what "decolonize" means, like, they're still complaining about "cultural appropriation"?

>>98187769
If you wanted to be treated as anything other than evil and subhuman, you wouldn't have chosen to be a tranny loving leftists. Sorry not sorry. Good luck getting a job somewhere else LMAO.

>>98188099
>Let me guess, injun focus, but openly made by descendants?
Yep. Its meh as a game, by and large indistinguishable from any other except the packaging. There was a pack rim locals made game a while ago that starts with a B about martial arts I only glanced at, not very interesting to me. The 1000 1000 Islands and associated works have been perhaps more interesting as it engages with colonialism as a local practice between various groups as well as other foreign fantasy peoples, but a consistent thing I've noticed is when the work is being made by locals its less about fighting the power or some deep political message compared to things like Lancer or Sword Dream or whathave you, and more about contextual changes in how they live and adventure in that. Lorn Song of the Bachelor and the posting around it was a good example of this distinction that gets missed.
There are times and places when it means other things but in publishing spheres focused around western hobby spaces its largely going to be low hanging fruit for upvotes.

>>98188149
>more about contextual changes in how they live and adventure in that.
That sounds genuinely interesting, anon. Please do elaborate on this.

>>98180527
God I hope so. Fuck those faggots for printing monke lunge.

>>98183166
You misunderstand. I'm not a communist. I support capitalism. What we have now is not an open and free market where anyone can compete. It's corporatism where the wealthy elite have locked out anyone from getting a foothold, and continue trying to stomp out small businesses so that 3 companies can have total control.

I can't believe you're out here defending WOTC and Paizo and all the other huge corporations that push the "woke" shit you claim to hate.

>>98181690
The one posting about news, since the name of the board isn't /news/. Obviously. Dumbfuck.

>>98187821
They're interested in fantasy because I personally told them to stop seething and just make their own.
A thing they are willing to do, but you are not.
I know this, because instead of leaving to make fantasy when told to stop seething and make your own, you just keep seething.

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>>98188306
For a while there was a zine called A Thousand Thousand Islands in the osr milieu, very far on the artsy side. The zines were made by a Munkao and Zedeck Siew. around 2019 with Malaysian fantastical stuff, really great line drawings, fanatical creatures and places, tables, adventure seeds, good shit. The different zines were about different kingdoms and peoples in the islands, some of which were in the process of, or had been for some time, colonizing each other, trading and doing what cultures do. This was presented in a connected and nuanced way rather than a moral anticolonial tone. They had a falling out as artists do and there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth about identity.
Anyway, Zedeck went on to make Lorn Song of the Bachelor, a point crawl up a river in a similar place and has a very thoughtful note at the end about player choice, writing adventures and presenting colonialism as a much less one sided moral tale. Various parts of the internet got mad at them about this, but it was at least trying to grapple with the subject matter from an internal, actually 'decolonizing' way instead of the grandstanding and it was refreshing.
They did more stuff like Reach of the Roach God, very cool campaign set up, again about the mixed relations and power dynamics of colonialism, parasite monsters and other things. That might be some of the secret sauce, I found all their material inter related to the subjects but also distinctly about games to play that can have some thought to them but aren't just wanking off about how good or evil people are based on their socioeconomics.
Munkao and Zedek both still make gamestuff, I haven't taken time to look at the new stuff from Centaur games (munkao) but it appears similar, curious to see how much of the game side was Zedek. Haven't seen as much content from their blog recently but that's not unusual for osrish blogs at this point. They did a bestiary called Creatures of Near Kingdoms and I'm out of room.

>>98188095
>That person is not imaginary
Don't lie to yourself. You don't know that person and the effect they and Paizo have in your life is infinitely smaller than what JP morgan and Diamond fucks have.
> kill my race.
> No billionaire ever called me a privileged incel chud Nazi
Oh fuck, my bad. I didn't realize I was talking to a retarded racist tourist LARPing as a /tg/ user. Go on and keep your bootlicking.

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>>98188485
>Don't lie to yourself. You don't know that person and the effect they and Paizo have in your life is infinitely smaller than what JP morgan and Diamond fucks have.

>>98185111
I suppose things got complicated because the company went bankrupt.

>>98187769
Paizo is also satanic.

>>98189631
>here's the two souled native american who hates colonialism in ttrgps i've been telling you about.

>>98189631
>cum brained /pol/ tourist worried about the physical appearance of a stranger they'll never interact because they can't jerk off to them.

>>98180867
WotC is Hasbro's biggest financial contributor, with most of that coming from MTG. Traditional board games and toys are dead.

>>98189669
Not a /pol/ tourist, but nice projection. Look, I get that you and your mentally ill friends have carved out a little Mini-Reddit in Paizo Generals and you think that you belong here, but you don't. You're reddit fucking incarnate, man, and reddit has never been welcome here. I find /pol/ cringe and embarrassing, but they're allowed to be here because they're 4channers at the end of the day. You're the fucking tourist, so go back to your echo chamber and start screeching about racists or fascism or whatever the fuck you freaks do in the short amount of time you have on earth before putting the noose around your neck.

>>98189631
>This is the human that wants to make sure you're never comfortable, much less happy, in TTRPGs again.

>>98189700
Schizoid behavior.

>>98189710
>calls people racists and /pol/ tourists... on 4chan
>defends jabba the two souled native american hutt who hates white people despite clearly being white
>gets called out for being a redditor
>"you're actually schizophrenic"
Lmao ok

>>98189738
>calls people racists and /pol/ tourists... on 4chan
you new here or something? fuck off you retard and go debate your politics on discord with your corporate cuck "friends"

>>98180527
This is more a case of Diamond fucking over everybody. They defaulted on their debt to the bank while holding onto a bunch of other people's inventory. When the bank came to take their assets, the other people's stuff went with it. Depending on how exactly these other companies (Paizo included) set up their agreements with Diamond, they may or may not be entitled to get their stuff back (that's the topic of the ongoing litigation Paizo mentioned in their release). In any case, it doesn't seem like the missing inventory is what really hurt Paizo, but rather that there was a period of time during last year when, while Diamond was going through its bankruptcy death throes, they weren't moving any inventory but were still hanging onto an exclusivity clause in their agreement, meaning that not only was Paizo's distributor literally not distributing, but Paizo was legally forbidden from finding another distributor that would. The result is that, for a certain period of time, despite Paizo's online sales going up, their physical sales effectively dropped to zero, which hit them like a shotgun to the stomach.

They've indicated that they've found a new distributor now, so the worst is over, but they've clearly still got a hole to dig themselves out of considering these cuts that they're making. When you get to a point that giving out free PDFs to organized play GMs starts cutting into your bottom line, things are dire.