Recent content by delericho

I'm afraid I have really mixed feelings about this (and the Buffy reboot, for that matter). I just find it really hard to muster any enthusiasm for those without Whedon's involvement... and have absolutely no interest in them with his involvement. It's a shame, but perhaps best just to let those...

A gummi bear? As regards owlbears and teeth: by rights, they probably should not. But the illustrations are equally clear, so I guess they do. :)

Every 5e campaign I've run has started at 1st level. For previous editions that's a little less true: of two 4e games I ran, one was at 1st level, the other at 10th. Neither made it to a second session. All (I think) of the 3e campaigns I ran started at 1st level, and there were a good many of...

This is definitely something I can see having value. I've now had multiple groups fall apart because we gradually lost people, down to a point where we could never get to a quorum. Adding virtual players would represent a significant mitigation for that - if I have three players and one can't...

Technically there were only two editions of AD&D... :D But 2nd Ed is a really odd one - according to the various sets of sales data that were posted here a few years ago, it sounds like sales of the edition, or at least individual titles within the edition, dropped like a stone pretty much...

I think 6e will come sooner than you'd expect, will change more than you'd expect (probably leaning hard into AI, either in design or the use of AI players/DMs), and then fall into the "even editions" rule where the game all-but-dies shortly thereafter (though not necessarily because of anything...

You need a poll, but not here. Ask your group to vote.

I do wonder whether this has anything to do with the recent staffing changes at WotC - could be someone in the old team was adamantly opposed to the 5.5e designation while the new team is all for it.

I had a huge amount of fun with 3.x... but I don't think I'd ever go back now. 5e is just a better fit for what I want to do now - I'm too casual a gamer to want to go back. (That said, I know at least one gamer for whom 5e is just too simple, and the heaviest crunchy parts of 3e were just about...

Eggs are one of two foods that I generally feel I should enjoy rather more than I actually do (the other being fish) - they're just so versatile that I'd have thought there should be some form of eggs that I'd enjoy... but I just haven't found one. I do enjoy other things that are made with...

On the one hand, there's no such thing as a truly perfect movie. There's always something that could be tweaked. On the other hand, there are a handful of movies where pretty much any change would end up being a change for the worse. I generally put three movies in that bracket: "The Empire...

Yes. He made the classic management mistake of badly underestimating the difficulty of the job being done by his staff. He then compounded it with the currently fashionable management mistake of dreaming that AI is an adequate substitute for that staff.

I have no idea - I'm not a lawyer. But I wouldn't bet a business on it!

Well... three years ago there were several lawyers on here who took a look at it, and their conclusion was that that assumption wasn't as iron-clad as had been assumed (and, indeed, intended), that there was just enough ambiguity in the word 'authorized' to suggest it might be possible to...

I deleted my previous reply, but I do owe this a proper response. My view is that everything good that has happened since (and there is quite a lot, as your OP lays out) was either possible regardless of the OGL situation (things like the DDB market), or alternately happened despite what...