Recent content by jayoungr

WotC's own presence at GenCon has been very spotty since at least the 4E era. They were there for the launch of 5E and then didn't come back, announcing that they were going to concentrate on smaller cons instead. I gather they will be there this year, but I think that might be the first time...

I'm pretty sure D&D proper has regularly been underrepresented at GenCon specifically, relative to number of players "in the wild," since WotC sort of ceded that con to Paizo years ago.

One grows the total size of the market.

I mean. This cycle has happened multiple times already since the 1980s.

Looks like he has also written for Kobold Press. I've run a couple of his short adventures from The Book of Lairs that I really enjoyed ("Tomb of the Scorpion Prince" and "The Alchemists' Guildhall"). https://www.adventurelookup.com/adventures?q=Shawn%20Merwin

Love the bread mimics! I hope they were tasty.

A few that I have really enjoyed: https://www.dmsguild.com/en/product/295211/ddal09-08-in-the-garden-of-evil (Cursed grove full of blood-drinking trees, with a captive unicorn at the center.) https://www.dmsguild.com/en/product/178795/ddal04-04-the-marionette-5e (A creepy old house with a tale...

So are you saying a channel can't be a D&D channel unless it's crunch-focused? I'm confused. Pointy Hat has always struck me as fairly clickbaity. All his video titles are negative: "The problem with X" or "X SUCKS." I don't think anyone's mentioned Seth Skorkowsky yet. He doesn't talk about...

There are days, getting more and more frequent lately, when I feel that allowing monetization of YouTube videos was a mistake.

They didn't really have a reputation because people literally didn't know or forgot they existed. There would be tons of threads asking "Why doesn't WotC publish any short adventures?" I'm the first to concede that the AL adventures do vary widely in quality, but there are some real gems in there.

There were over 100 of them, and you always could mix and match. People just totally ignored things published for Adventurer's League for some reason.

If that was the issue, I'd expect to see more channels that started out with D&D advice and switched to "D&D is Dying" content. But the ones that I've seen running the "D&D is Dying" headline recently are ones that have been anti-D&D at least since the OGL debacle if not longer.

Awwww, what a sweet story! (And just inject some contrarianism, I don't believe having a most popular RPG is detrimental to the RPG as a whole--the opposite, in fact.)

I voted "sometimes." It depends on the campaign and the players. For players who are new to the game, I like starting at level 1 because it introduces the features gradually. For those who are more experienced, especially if it's going to be a short campaign, I am more likely to start higher.

The site won't open for me in Firefox. Is anyone else having trouble?