Recent content by djotaku

@Christian Hoffer typo: " including gothing, dark fantasy, cosmic, and the occult." - probably mean "gothic"

This is neither good nor bad - just an observation: it seems like they looked at what Paizo is doing with its APs and Society play and figured that would be good for D&D, too. It sounds good to me and anything that seems to potentially provide them with recurring revenue that isn't just digital...

FYI: that's the exact opposite of self-hosted. Self-hosted means you're running in on a compter/server that you control.

For me it's a push-pull. Larger the company, the more chance they'll stick around to make more content for me. The smaller the company the more passionate they are about any given release and will try to do right by the customer with more gusto.

For me, at some point the math stops mathing for some bundles. Once I had already gotten a PF2e bundle - a new bundle where most of the value was in the core books wasn't useful for me. (The cost to get the Adventure Paths was equivalent to just buying the APs directly from Paizo) I think that's...

This happened to me last year with the Black Friday sales. I went too hard on Humble Bundles and Kickstarters and then was screwed over on not having game budget to take the deals on Black Friday through into the new year. What saved me partially was Kobold Press extending their Advent Calendar...

I saw that today, but didn't have a chance to read it. I'm glad they went this way because I've been running Stonewalkers and conversations have been my nemesis.

Thanks for replying; It was great to hear your publisher perspective. I backed your Black Flag Asian and Hispanic monsters a few years ago. Used them in a game - loved them. Loved that you had FoundryVTT support.

I actually read all 6 pages. Here's what I have to add to that: 1. Self-hosting is a must for me 2. One-time payment is a must for me. I can't with 2026 and everything being a mother-flippin' subscription. Somehow we went through a huge history of computing without everything being a sub. I...

The back half of your reply echoes the reply to Morrus I wrote while you were writing this one. 2 data points don't mean much, but they mean more than just one! :) On the topic of piracy - I 100% agree with you that the easier it is to get something legitimately, the less it's worth the trouble...

I think this is probably the hardest part (or at least a very hard part) about running a business. I remember a few years ago Nintendo actually whiffed this one so hard they actually gave the annoyed customer a credit or something. But as a customer who already has too many books, TTRPGs, and...

On your FF6 note - that's what I think of every time SF2e mentions magitek

As I just got my notification of the Shadowrun Humble Bundle (and there's currently also Fallout TTRPG and a physical book TTRPG bundle) I thought of something - if you're a publisher (and a recent thread revealed there are a ton of indie publishers on here) - what's the pros/cons of doing a...

Numenera falls into this camp, right? It's post-apocalyptic Earth, isn't it?

Very interesting. I think there's probably something to be said for the fact that many Science Fantasy TTRPGs seem to adopt this late-80s/early-90s aesthetic. There's definitely some of it on Starfinder; especially with the official Cat Solarian with the crop top, but also in the color scheme...