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It is an odd term I haven't heard before, but . . . with RPGs, the audience (the players) is telling the story. Perhaps the opposite of...

Ya. Radiant citadel isn't what you say at all. Not even close.

That’s certainly the way the TTRPG studio operated, but our production was much more predictable than video games or entertainment...

Nothing prevented it, but nothing required it either. The four groups frequently collaborated, but only on initiatives they all agreed...

I started playing D&D at age 9. And I wonder, today, would I be able to understand the current edition of D&D well enough to run games...

Fans still have PTSD from BECMI and "Advanced" D&D being actually different games . . . Using the terms "basic" and "advanced" probably...

Who would think that Hobbits could challenge Mordor, destroy the One Ring, and become captains of Gondor and Rohan? :cool:

Just pre-ordered the LotR5E starter set and downloaded the PDFs from DriveThruRPG (physical boxes won't ship until late July, PDFs are...

@SlyFlourish just posted a podcast that talks about the book. Lazy RPG Talk Show - Labyrinth Worldbook Spotlight. My personal capsule...

Three historians!! Ben Riggs talks with Shannon Appelcline and Jon Peterson.

Discussing TSR as if it were a publicly traded company is not accurate. That's the larger point here. As for the debt and the finer...

It all depends upon how the private company is structured and how the stakes are held. For the purposes of this discussion, comments...

The stakes held by owners in privately held companies are not the same as publicly traded shares. They operate in very different ways.

I didn't say you were criticizing me directly or implicitly. Again, you seem to be assuming and assigning motives with no actual...

Your hasty summaries about what WotC or TSR "care about" are nothing but speculation on motive, and in this case, a reduction of complex...