Recent content by doctorhook

Interesting. Not a lawyer so I don’t get to roll for traps when reading this, but I’m assuming that there’s not much substantially new to parse from this since the hearing still isn’t for another week?

Some of these are pretty hilarious

I’m wondering if there’s been a summary of GenCon product announcements this year? I’ve been watching the front page and saw some news, but nothing huge that grabs me. Has this year been smaller/quieter from a product announcement standpoint? Or am I just out of the loop on the juicy stuff...

It’s a strong argument in favour of creating some new settings. Unlike in comic books, TTRPGs aren’t all about established characters—although WotC has really shifted to marketing based on tie-in media moreso then than ever before.

You’ll get no argument from me! Alien seems like the sci-fi equivalent of “low fantasy”: mostly humans, no “space magic”, high lethality, gritty, etc. It’s the exact opposite of Guardians of the Galaxy in a lot of ways. And Starfinder’s artwork has always evoked a specific tone: colourful...

Ugh I was almost ready to be okay with this lore change, assuming there might be a reasonable explanation. But based on the text you found… nope! That lore change is dumb as hell.

Might be that this is part of the problem, no explanation was offered and the story online morphed into no explanation existing. Still WotC ain’t off the hook, they probably should’ve known people would expect to understand why.

At least you’ve pitched some lore to try to justify the change! That’s certainly been missing for me so far: any explanation of why this partnership between PDKs and amethyst dragons now exists. As it stands, it’s presented as “They’re Purple Dragon Knights, why wouldn’t they have purple...

I’m late to this thread and haven’t read the whole thing. Personally, I’m trying to recalibrate my price expectations to the current reality. With Paizo products, I strongly prefer to buy their digest sized books, partly to save money and partly because of lower environmental impact of shipping...

You’ve made an important point here, but probably not the one you intended to make: It was a mistake to turn a popular established setting into the default setting, because newcomers will have no incentive to learn that setting. 4E gave us a perfect default pseudo-setting in “Points of...

If PDKs are a boring organization, why not just put them to bed? Why the need to retool them into something that makes little sense for PDKs and even less sense for amethyst dragons? The ol’ Dragon mag purple dragons were such a deep cut with no significant role in D&D, so the 4E lore to roll...

No one is suggesting D&D shouldn’t have the possibility for knights to ride dragons. (Although there’s a whole other setting about that, it’s called Dragonlance, you may have heard of it.) Whereas the practice of dragon-riding hasn’t been common in FR nor most other D&D settings because it kind...

It’s pretty wild to use your own ignorance and apathy about a franchise to justify why you think it should change to be more “cool”. I’ve never been interested in Downton Abbey but I’d never suggest to its fans that it would be a lot cooler with spaceships and bikini-babes on motorcycles...

For whatever it’s worth, Starfinder feels like a specific subgenre of science fantasy. It’s basically Guardians of the Galaxy, and perhaps it’s gonna need more tweaking to achieve Star Trek or certainly Alien.

Hallelujah! It’s encouraging to hear that WotC actually responds to criticism about butchering their own lore. A Purple Dragon Knight with a literal dragon pet makes as much sense as a Fighter with a fighter jet.