Recent content by Dire Bare

So, yes. "Performative" playtesting involving actual playtesting, surveying for feedback, and incorporating that feedback. Okay. Is WotC also using these opportunities for some marketing? Sure. Shrug.

I would love to try the brews . . . but yowza, those prices! Probably reasonable, but too rich for me! The dice tower is kinda boring. Not that I'm going to purchase these drinks anyway, but I'd love to see some in-universe brew names . . . Waterdeep Stout or something like that . . . Now, if...

Yup. I fail to see the problem with D&D Crochet. It's not bumping a game book off the schedule, and it's going to sell very well, in my expectation. But you know, we gotta complain about something!

They've been pretty upfront about that too. Although, they moved away from making each book an "event" after Rime of the Frost Maiden. It sounds like they plan to get back to that model with the decision to move D&D to a "franchise" model.

This is a problem within the Magic community also . . . the current pace of releases is intense, and many fans are feeling left behind. So far, this has been profitable for WotC, but a lot of folks feel like this is due to speculators buying up the cards hoping they will increase in value. D&D...

Because we don't want WotC to go under like TSR and for the D&D product line to die? And, as others have already pointed out . . . very few of us actually managed to collect all of that wonderful stuff from the 80s and 90s. We appreciate being able to keep up with the current release schedule.

4, 5, 6 . . . we can quibble over the exact number. But fewer, higher quality releases as opposed to more frequent, lower quality releases . . . seems to be working for WotC for the past decade.

While some of us might want more books that WotC currently puts out, and remember fondly the 80s and 90s firehose of content . . . much more than current levels would probably get WotC quickly to the point of diminishing returns . . . just like it did for TSR.

While my overall point isn't changing . . . I'm realizing I'm confusing Hasbro/WotC's video game studios with their movie studios.

The one in the OP?

Yes . . . but I was responding to frustration with WotC opening and closing game studios over the past few years. Hopefully this new studio will stick around for a while.

Different management, different strategies. But yeah, the opening and closing of game studios within WotC sure seems like the company does not have its act together. And folks losing jobs is the result. Yay, capitalism! Hopefully, this time around the decisions will be stronger and more...

What you are asking, that we shouldn't lessen the reading/thinking skills necessary to play D&D, is NOT gatekeeping, IMO. These are the benefits the game can bring to young minds, giving them motivation to improve those skills. Its the reasoning educators use to advocate for RPGs in schools and...

Not so much "in-universe" but metaphorically. In universe, they gave the same wishy-washy explanation as above, that since the serum is based on Spock, somehow Spock's view of Vulcans is affecting the team. Makes no sense to me. But the metaphor Umbran mentions I think is the writer's intent...

Maybe this isn't possible with current restrictions or with bringing in enough to cover costs, but what would have made me excited to click the "Back this project" button . . . Tier A: PDF only - Includes both 5E and ToV versions, $30 for one title, $40 for both titles. Not sure how DDB...