Recent content by Michael Linke

I dunno, that trimmer sounds pretty useful.

Most layoffs involve a severance package that ensures the outgoing employees are actually still “payed” through Christmas. Nothing makes up for the fact that they’re out of work going into the new year, of course.

My issue with the Spelljammer adventure is that it read more like the summary of an adventure than an actual adventure. It was just a bunch of story beats it wanted the DM to hit, as though a book like Ghosts of Saltmarsh were stripped down to a 4 page summary of each adventure.

I’m not attacking his choices, I’m just questioning why companies would use kickstarter when all they need to raise are printing costs. POD feels like a more efficient path. Kickstarter makes more sense when you need capital to to pay development expenses. Upgrading dry rules text with color...

I guess that’s true in a sense. As I interpret those campaigns, the physical book is the product, and it needs the kickstarter to be realized. I wouldn’t consider the pdf content to be the “product”, but it’s semantic. If you’re saying you save your money for campaigns where the content is...

They kickstart new products that are “ready to go”? I haven’t encountered that, but I don’t directly browse Kickstarter much. I’m aware of biggish established hobby companies using kickstarter, but it’s still to fund products that aren’t finalized, certainly not “ready to go”.

Until enworld unlocks the option for ME to delete YOUR posts, dissent is literally not being silenced. Your post could have been quoted because someone wanted to engage with you directly, or just because it echoed a sentiment someone wanted to respond to. You’re free to respond however you...

If they have product ready to go, they don’t belong on kickstarter.

We get more fan content in a week via the internet than TSR could put out in a year at their prime. I don’t think the game is dead, just decentralized.

I think the MM would be the most needed, though. They say the MM is correcting the balance of monsters, so that they actually have a challenge that matches their listed CR. The PHB changes seem to be less about balance, and more about massaging class identity and offering new options. The DMG...

The comment you’re responding to isn’t about size of print runs, it’s about the number of titles released. They would rather do one book every few months that everyone buys than do 2 books a month that a small subset of the community buys.

Migration can spread popularity. My company just recently started sponsoring a team in a local a cricket league, and at least one employee is trying to join the team.

I’m 100% sure that that’s not the case, though I would find it hilarious if the reason Chapter 9 was a secret was because he hadn’t written it yet.

I'm sure the fan feedback on Spelljammer was heard loud and clear.

I might buy the DMG and MM at this point. But I don't think I would want the PHB changes at my table if they follow through with these proposed changes to the arcane caster classes. Seeing the direction of the playtest tells me that I should run a campaign soon, either 5e or OSR depending on...