Recent content by doctorhook

It’s frustrating as hell trying to follow a thread where someone is commenting a lot and generating a ton of replies but has also blocked me from seeing any of their comments (including in replies). Jd Smith1, not sure what I said to earn a block from you, but would you do me a solid and unblock...

This is a helpful explanation of what the hell is actually happening here, thank you for that. I’m slightly less baffled now… though the whole situation still seems dodgy to me.

I’m honestly shocked by this, as I’m guessing lots of other layfolk (non-lawyers, non-publishers) here are too. What kind of backward, broken legal system can possibly even entertain the idea of allowing a company under contract to claim ownership of others’ property to pay its own debts??? If...

Dead on, all true. And yeah, the balance aspect of “build your own species” would certainly need to be a consideration.

Cheers, valid points all around! Still I’d be in favour of reigning in the proliferation of races on a per-setting basis, just for verisimilitude. The Tolkien races are a well-established genre trope in gaming, but I think we could step back and be critical of it more often too: why must every...

Since 2020 and drama within the hobby, I’ve becoming pretty convinced that D&D should just go 100% post-racial. If I publish a game (and I likely never will) I’d scrap the entirety of race/species in favour of custom biological/body mechanics: short size, blue skin, fiery breath, innate spells...

I grew up on and loved the 3E/4E/5E style of blue dragons (they were one of my faves) so this still looks alien to me. Clearly a dragon, but like from another franchise or something. Oh well, I already got my big blue dragon sculpt in 2009 or whenever, this can be for others, no shade.

Something about the cover bugs me; maybe it’s that they’re all posing while casting spells? Or maybe it’s that only one character is a traditional D&D PC species and I’m a stick in the mud who liked the old ways? Or maybe it’s just that that lady is definitely gonna drop that potion she’s holding

D&D weapon grouping often massively undersells simple weapons. The staff is presented as basic (and generally assigned crappy damage). But there’s a reason it’s called “the grandfather of all weapons” in Chinese martial arts: it’s foundational to knowing so many other weapons and it’s extremely...

I wrote half a comment being surprised that this company was still around, then realized I was thinking of Evil Genius Games, the company that was making and cancelling other modern action IP licensed products. I’m commenting now in case anyone else made the same mistake

For anybody who doesn’t know: Paul Hughes makes great stuff!

Definitely likely to see more of this unfortunately, for both tariff and (especially) AI reasons. Welcome to the future

Once upon a time (pre-OGL debacle) I opined that Critical Role was a strategic threat to WotC: they were a huge driver of new fans to D&D even before COVID hit. My logic was that there seemed to be a large contingent of players who like Critical Role more-so than actually D&D, so the risk was...

I always wanted to go to GenCon of course, but never did. As a Canadian, I recently decided that I’d much rather go to UKGE instead of venturing to the USA for anything. Didn’t start planning in time for this year, but I’m very seriously looking at UKGE for next year!

Your response sounds possibly sarcastic, but I agree with it unironically. Information overload is a major psychological force in the modern age!