The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[overgeeked]

Hottest take: I miss the TTRPG internet from before Patreon and Kickstarter. Where the only monetization was you made a tangible product, and if it looked cool, I gave you money for that tangible product. Not some arrangement where I give you money for some nebulous future content that I may or may not like. Patreon and Kickstarter was the starting point. Like the Oblivion Horse Armor DLC in video game terms. That's where it started innocuously enough and this is where we end up, with dudes wanting to sell me NFTs of Blackrazor.

Splat books were the first DLC.

 

[payn]

Hottest take: I miss the TTRPG internet from before Patreon and Kickstarter. Where the only monetization was you made a tangible product, and if it looked cool, I gave you money for that tangible product. Not some arrangement where I give you money for some nebulous future content that I may or may not like. Patreon and Kickstarter was the starting point. Like the Oblivion Horse Armor DLC in video game terms. That's where it started innocuously enough and this is where we end up, with dudes wanting to sell me NFTs of Blackrazor.

You should make a youtube video with a shocked face and title saying something like "where it all went wrong".

 

[eyeheartawk]

Splat books were the first DLC.

I consider those more analogous to expansion packs PC games used to have. But yeah, the line can get blurry.

 

[trappedslider]

 

[Mannahnin]

Hottest take: I miss the TTRPG internet from before Patreon and Kickstarter. Where the only monetization was you made a tangible product, and if it looked cool, I gave you money for that tangible product. Not some arrangement where I give you money for some nebulous future content that I may or may not like. Patreon and Kickstarter was the starting point. Like the Oblivion Horse Armor DLC in video game terms. That's where it started innocuously enough and this is where we end up, with dudes wanting to sell me NFTs of Blackrazor.

I do have some nostalgia glasses for the phase of the OSR when it seemed like virtually everyone was making stuff and putting it out there for free or at cost.

That being said, since folks started charging we have even more stuff and more of it has really sweet art and production values.

 

[eyeheartawk]

I do have some nostalgia glasses for the phase of the OSR when it seemed like virtually everyone was making stuff and putting it out there for free or at cost.

That being said, since folks started charging we have even more stuff and more of it has really sweet art and production values.

Yes, 100%.

But also it just irks me somehow, deep down in what remains of my soul, when I see Patreon paywalled posts that would have been just like, a normal blog post ten years ago.

I can't help it. It's like when there is a bag of slop in front of me from Taco Bell. I'mma eat it, it cannot be helped.

 

[MarkB]

Now I’m just imagining a Giant Barbarian Goliath who battles in the name of Odin by fighting with brains instead of brawn, and by brains I mean by wielding two massive Ravens as weapons named after Huginn (Thought) and Muninn (Memory). He doesn’t understand how these birds are better weapons then a sword but who can argue with the All-Father right?

Sounds like a rook-y mistake.

 

[Alzrius]

The sheer number of statements regarding that Youtube video's thumbnail's font type, color, arrows, etc. makes it clear that the old adage of "don't judge a book by its cover" is well and truly dead.

 

[Mannahnin]

The sheer number of statements regarding that Youtube video's thumbnail's font type, color, arrows, etc. makes it clear that the old adage of "don't judge a book by its cover" is well and truly dead.

Eh. Some of it is just consumer opposition to a particular marketing trend.

Normally if there is substantive data it is available from multiple sources. IMO people choosing not to read/watch/support third party reporters who annoy them is understandable. Even if seems rather Quixotic at times.

 

[Thomas Shey]

Hottest take: I miss the TTRPG internet from before Patreon and Kickstarter. Where the only monetization was you made a tangible product, and if it looked cool, I gave you money for that tangible product. Not some arrangement where I give you money for some nebulous future content that I may or may not like. Patreon and Kickstarter was the starting point. Like the Oblivion Horse Armor DLC in video game terms. That's where it started innocuously enough and this is where we end up, with dudes wanting to sell me NFTs of Blackrazor.

I'm going to counter with an equally hot one: prior to Kickstarter, there are a number of pretty good games that I suspect would never have seen the light of day. I'm quite willing to put up with the fact that also means we got more drek.