Recent content by doctorhook

Right on! I think you won’t regret it. And I’m flattered that you credit my mini-rant for motivating you, haha

I don’t like the obnoxious ads either, but the real drum I’ve been beating lately is subscription. There are a buttload of prolific posters here who aren’t subscribers. They clearly enjoy ENWorld, but evidently haven’t bothered to consider a dollar value for they enjoyment they get. I think a...

How do they define “recreational books”? Most RPG books have more in common with a college textbook than a novel: large size, lots of graphics, indexed content, etc. How has the price of “college books” changed?

Sad to see the end of an era, little products are fun impulse purchases. But overall this change makes sense, since I’m not sure how many people were using only pieces of the path vs the whole thing anyway.

That’s Pedro Pascal on the cover

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...