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[Micah Sweet]

This is a tangential point, but The Last Jedi only became the penultimate episode of an a 40 year saga when Disney decided they should market Rise of Skywalker as the culmination of the "Skywalker Saga". When it was being written, it was the middle act of the first sequel trilogy (a far more appropriate designation when building on a saga whose central plot arcs were resolved in 1983).

Disagree. The original long term plan (when such a plan came into being) was for there to be nine films, with the original trilogy being the middle group. That makes Episode 9 the logical end of the sequence.

 

[Micah Sweet]

I'm trying to remember which company I saw doing that first, maybe Fantasy Flight Games? I just remember thinking to myself nobody would pay to be a beta tester.

Paizo was the first I heard of.

 

[Reynard]

Unpopular opinion: the absolute worst trend in RPGs is charging for your alpha, beta, or playtest materials.

I'm trying to remember which company I saw doing that first, maybe Fantasy Flight Games? I just remember thinking to myself nobody would pay to be a beta tester.

Paizo was the first I heard of.

Paizo did not charge you for the playtest. they charged you for the printing. I don't think there is anything wrong with selling a hardcopy of a playtest document if you are giving it away free digitally. Printing and distribution have associated costs, after all.

 

[Reynard]

Unpopular Opinion: The absolute worst trend in RPGs is startup companies with little to no design cred weaponizing FOMO in crowdfunding campaigns by offering "only for backers" materials that will never be available again otherwise.

(Corollary: the best trend in RPGs is startup companies offering robust previews and quickstarts to prove they do, in fact, deserve your support in their crowdfunding campaign and that they have a solid game/setting/whatever.)

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Most of those "only for backers" items are pretty crappy, to boot. Why do I want all of these "only for backers in the first 72 hours" mini posters? What am I supposed to do with all these damned things?

 

[Velderan]

Disagree. The original long term plan (when such a plan came into being) was for there to be nine films, with the original trilogy being the middle group. That makes Episode 9 the logical end of the sequence.

This was the long-term plan of George Lucas, right?

 

[Cadence]

This was the long-term plan of George Lucas, right?

That's what I heard back in the 80s.

 

[DammitVictor]

This was the long-term plan of George Lucas, right?

George Lucas didn't plan to make one trilogy until the first movie made so much money he had to.

He has a habit of having "planned it all along" only after flying by the seat of his pants and sticking the landing.

 

[aramis erak]

Do Americans not consider a bagel a sandwich? (I may be mis-reading between the lines here.)

My family does, but only when the whole bagel is used to make 1 sandwich; for some reason, cut in half and served as two open face sammy-like is always "bagel with " or " on a bagel."

Likewise, openface on toasted bread is "_ on toast" or "Toast with _" or "Toast and ___" But on untoasted bread, it's an "open faced sandwich."

Linguistic quirk.

 

[Micah Sweet]

George Lucas didn't plan to make one trilogy until the first movie made so much money he had to.

He has a habit of having "planned it all along" only after flying by the seat of his pants and sticking the landing.

I did say, "when such a plan came into being".