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[doctorbadwolf]

I live in Vienna, Austria, but I am from small town Western North Carolina.

Okay. Lovely part of the country.

The bold applies to the place pictured. But it's not exactly a hole-in-the-wall spot when it's in the middle of downtown on the main street.

Location doesn’t matter in this context, but if “hole in the wall” bothers you, we can use another.

 

[Aldarc]

Okay. Lovely part of the country.

Location doesn’t matter in this context, but if “hole in the wall” bothers you, we can use another.

Or we can drop the matter entirely, which is my personal preference.

 

[soviet]

It’s more the thousand variations and adaptions that are the equivalent of dialects of language. Like putting your effort into learning Spanish only to find out folks in Barcelona are speaking Catalan. Which is fine right up until you want to have a good conversation with someone. Same with games.

Games aren't languages, they're media. I don't want to be locked in to watching season 57 of The Office or season 12 of The Walking Dead: Another Location. I want to have new things to enjoy.

 

[deganawida]

WotC has owned D&D for 26 years. Other than Eberron and the Nentir Vale, it's been a constant remix of TSR settings, lore, and concepts, and now MtG. It's well past time to leave FR behind, as well as the TSR lore, and make something new for the game. Keep supporting the old, but move the energy to something new, with its own takes on monsters and cosmology and so forth. You know, like Nentir Vale did.

 

[MGibster]

WotC has owned D&D for 26 years. Other than Eberron and the Nentir Vale, it's been a constant remix of TSR settings, lore, and concepts, and now MtG. It's well past time to leave FR behind, as well as the TSR lore, and make something new for the game. Keep supporting the old, but move the energy to something new, with its own takes on monsters and cosmology and so forth. You know, like Nentir Vale did.

I don't know if it's time to abandon everything, but I'm largely in agreement. Do I want Dark Sun? Sure. But Dark Sun had its chance. Do something different.

 

[deganawida]

I don't know if it's time to abandon everything, but I'm largely in agreement. Do I want Dark Sun? Sure. But Dark Sun had its chance. Do something different.

Just keep the old stuff available, maybe convert it to the newest rules, and then focus on new stuff.

 

[TheSword]

Games aren't languages, they're media. I don't want to be locked in to watching season 57 of The Office or season 12 of The Walking Dead: Another Location. I want to have new things to enjoy.

You can enjoy a TV show by turning on the Telly and watching. Everything else is provided.

Expanding your TV analogy it would like there being a thousand streaming services each with two or three short programs on it. All requiring a subscription.

 

[soviet]

You can enjoy a TV show by turning on the Telly and watching. Everything else is provided.

Expanding your TV analogy it would like there being a thousand streaming services each with two or three programs on it. All requiring a subscription.

OK? I mean that's not a million miles away from the actual television landscape. Doesn't sound so bad.

 

[TheSword]

OK? I mean that's not a million miles away from the actual television landscape. Doesn't sound so bad.

Ha ha true. Now let’s assume we need 500 different types of TV or TV adaptor to watch them?

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Wait, is Eureka is a chain now? I've literally eaten at the Eureka Burger on Eureka Street. Are they franchising out overpriced fancy burgers with ill-advised toppings?

Old Hotness: That's not a pizza because you don't put THAT on a pizza.

New Hotness: That's not a burger because you don't put THAT on a burger.