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What else would he say? There's plenty of evidence that that take isn't odd at all, and it's kind of the darling topic of the...

exactly. I think he's reading the room and knows when its time to "peace-out!"

If he did it as an unofficial product, now that he's retired, I'd consider picking it up. Dragonborn is in the SRD, and Io is from...

Too bad. I had hoped his influence might lead to an official Iomandra product at some point. Alas, all good things must come to an end.

Nothing wrong with it in theory; it's usually extremely poorly executed in actual practice.

I agree; privately, I think more people engage with the hobby by reading books more than anything else. Even people who are actively...

When you read a recipe, there has to be something (a description, a picture) that makes you excited about the end product. Otherwise...

Correction, you don’t Like it. Now go look up Like in the Rules Glossary.

Arguably, that's exactly what the real problem actually is, isn't it? Starting somewhere around 1977 and the AD&D rules, the game got...

That seems a bit harsh to call out the OSR for that (and I say that as someone who doesn't identify as an OSRian) when the same would be...

To be fair, there are a lot of systems that do exactly that, except without the D&D branded stuff, of course. GURPS. BRP. Savage Worlds...

I'll take 'em! I mean, I may have most of them, but there's a few holes in my 3.5 collection that I'm retroactively trying to fill. You...

I don’t see why OSR gets so little credit for fixing (or attempting to fix) what so many edition warriors are upset about. New...

I know, right?

And the first of those factors, you'd expect, would vastly more than mitigate the second. At some point, if the sales are lower, and I...