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Havain reacted to JConstantine's post in the thread Critical Role to Use D&D 2024 Rules For Campaign Four, Expands to Three Tables and Thirteen Players with Like.

Paizo benefits from D&D for exact reason Steve Jackson laid out with GURPS. That's true for the smaller games as well. There is simply a...

Aug 25, 2025
Havain reacted to AlViking's post in the thread Critical Role to Use D&D 2024 Rules For Campaign Four, Expands to Three Tables and Thirteen Players with Like.

Based on the estimates we had, there was no sudden uptick in sales after either CR or Stranger Things. The upward trend in sales was...

Aug 25, 2025
Havain reacted to JConstantine's post in the thread Critical Role to Use D&D 2024 Rules For Campaign Four, Expands to Three Tables and Thirteen Players with Like.

This is the case according to actual RPG developers. In addition to Steve Jackson's comment that @Staffan pointed out, a few years ago...

Aug 25, 2025
Havain reacted to kermit4karate's post in the thread Critical Role to Use D&D 2024 Rules For Campaign Four, Expands to Three Tables and Thirteen Players with Like.

Bingo! Totally agree. Most people, regular people/casual gamers, care about games because they want to have fun. That's the only goal...

Aug 25, 2025
Havain reacted to Clint_L's post in the thread Critical Role to Use D&D 2024 Rules For Campaign Four, Expands to Three Tables and Thirteen Players with Like.

I think that it is mostly DM types (i.e. 90%+ of the people on this forum, I suspect) that are driven to try out different TTRPGs and...

Aug 25, 2025
Havain reacted to kermit4karate's post in the thread Critical Role to Use D&D 2024 Rules For Campaign Four, Expands to Three Tables and Thirteen Players with Like.

Yeah, I think the bigger factor is that there isn't more room within most people's headspace for other games. Most casual gamers --...

Aug 25, 2025
Havain reacted to AlViking's post in the thread Critical Role to Use D&D 2024 Rules For Campaign Four, Expands to Three Tables and Thirteen Players with Like.

If there was demand for those other games they'd find room for them. Meanwhile no game is perfect, that doesn't mean a lot of people...

Aug 25, 2025
Havain reacted to SkidAce's post in the thread Critical Role to Use D&D 2024 Rules For Campaign Four, Expands to Three Tables and Thirteen Players with Like.

I like DnD and other games. Enjoy my opinion that 2014 DnD is both an elegant and simple system that is a mixture of both old school...

Aug 25, 2025
Havain reacted to TiQuinn's post in the thread Critical Role to Use D&D 2024 Rules For Campaign Four, Expands to Three Tables and Thirteen Players with Like.

If I’m judging by the games played in game stores locally and the space they dedicate to various games, I would say Magic and Warhammer...

Aug 25, 2025
Havain reacted to kermit4karate's post in the thread Critical Role to Use D&D 2024 Rules For Campaign Four, Expands to Three Tables and Thirteen Players with Like.

Another thing about some of the frequent arguments for/against D&D...most players don't care as much about game mechanics as game...

Aug 25, 2025
Havain reacted to kermit4karate's post in the thread Critical Role to Use D&D 2024 Rules For Campaign Four, Expands to Three Tables and Thirteen Players with Like.

Maybe so... I still love it in its entirety, not any one edition in its entirety but altogether. I believe that every other system I've...

Aug 25, 2025
Havain reacted to AlViking's post in the thread Critical Role to Use D&D 2024 Rules For Campaign Four, Expands to Three Tables and Thirteen Players with Like.

So because you don't personally care for the game it's "overstayed it's welcome" is your justification for the harm it's doing? That's...

Aug 25, 2025
Havain reacted to The Soloist's post in the thread Critical Role to Use D&D 2024 Rules For Campaign Four, Expands to Three Tables and Thirteen Players with Like.

LOL! The man is right. That is exactly what happened to my first D&D basic group in 1981. After a summer of play, two of my players came...

Aug 25, 2025
Havain reacted to CleverNickName's post in the thread Critical Role to Use D&D 2024 Rules For Campaign Four, Expands to Three Tables and Thirteen Players with Like.

That's true even without D&D, though. It's a crowded market now, and D&D is just one game among many. The theory is that if D&D...

Aug 25, 2025
Havain reacted to CleverNickName's post in the thread Critical Role to Use D&D 2024 Rules For Campaign Four, Expands to Three Tables and Thirteen Players with Like.

What clear negative impacts are these? I'm sure they exist; everything has its downsides. I'm just struggling to see them. From what...

Aug 25, 2025

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