Recent content by Mark Craddock

I honestly hope brighter horizons are ahead for her. If is an emergency I wish her well. Cocks made some big promises and on some leave, IMO, a higher up has to answer for their fallen stocks and the fact they were downgraded. I think it will eventually catch up with him but she is an easy...

My concern is how they will handle the logistics of all of those preorders they are going after with DnD Beyond. Who is handling the shipping once they release? I know that there have been some rough spots with their M:tG Secret Lairs. Its hard enough competing with Amazon as a local game store...

I don't think we are much of a factor. They probably fired everyone who backed the OGL and therefore we have brain drain on how to make this brand work. To me, the people in charge of Magic & DnD are like cockroaches, they are good at keeping their jobs by deflection. Probably learned it from Cox :(

Sadly, I can see her gender being a factor for being scapegoated :( Cox can easily claim, "Look at WotC's sales when I was in charge and Hasbro's gains before I hired her." Darkest timeline ever.

I'm leaning to she was under fire and found a different gig. Just my 2 cents. Her tenures at Amazon & Microsoft were more "successful" (read their corporate tyranny was better swallowed). I don't wish her or Cox misfortune I just wish they'd stop messing with things that were working. WotC was...

“She helped implement Cocks’ Blueprint 2.0 strategy, which narrowed Hasbro’s focus on licensing the company’s most profitable brands and emphasizing digital products as much as possible….That blueprint has not materialized in the way Cocks wanted. The company faces an extremely tough 2023 and...

Respectfully, I thought Zweihander started as a retroclone and at some point I feel like Daniel didn't want us to remember that. I'd feel the same way if Old School Essential's Gavin Norman decided that his work has no connection to B/X DnD. I mean, the name Zweihander was chosen as a connection...

I'm 51 and have been playing since the early '90s so there are certain things in rules I know won't work for me. I'm not a fan of FATE, Powered by the Apocalypse, or Forged in the Dark games. I'm sure it's my own issue and I avoid them. I usually walk away from a game if it doesn't have Hit...

Nerf the Rogue. Its too darn good.

Maybe there is some timeline where Larian got the opportunity and had the money? Maybe it could have been cool.

What we have to remember is that its not just about profit its about exponential profit every quarter and the is hard to do with DnD. 4E didn't fail it simply didn't succeed to their projections as they thought they could somehow experience the same profit from it as Magic. They don't understand...

At the moment, Hasbro is licensing many of their toy brands to numerous other toymakers. Additionally, the acquired eOne as a studio to make their own films and then sold it just as DnD & Transformers Rise of Beasts released. I think the bugbear for them with DnD is two-fold: 1) DMs who are 20%...

Do you have a link to the Discord?

Have they said if they are going to use the WFRP system or the Soulbound system which the Laundry will also use?

My enthusiasm has soured on Tales of the Valiant based on what I've seen of it so far. I was hoping for a bit more divergent design. However, Level Up has replaced it for me and I'm a big fan of Shadow of the Weird Wizard.