Recent content by kenmarable

Citation needed. One thing that watching online discussion of this industry over the past few decades has taught me (including with how wide the reach of the OGL fiasco wound up being) is that forum posters citing how large they think certain subgroups are typically has zero actual evidence...

Exactly. Now marketing to Wall Street is another matter (although I doubt that's the case here without a clearer message behind it). But, yeah, thinking this has anything whatsoever to do with influencing customer opinions is laughably wrong.

Not to continue this tangent, but there is a massive difference between the fact that WE know they are clear of any IP and the level of management that likely got massively chewed out for releasing "Strahd" and such knowing that comfortably enough to sign off on it. They likely set up an overly...

No need to go into detail since sometimes things happen and they have otherwise done very well (so I don't want to slam them for 1 bad product they had out of the many other solid ones in a promo thread for them!), but hopefully you got an updated version. The initial release needed more much...

Dark Souls was definitely a low point, and I've found their other game development to be uneven but passable in quality (some is great, some just ok), however in this case they are taking Kobold Press's existing system and presenting it as a Starter Set. So this is much more about presenting...

I am fully, 1000% supportive of therapy and absolutely do NOT think anyone can be a therapist. Also, RPGs can definitely be used effectively in therapy sessions. That being said, not everything that calls itself therapy is therefore a good thing. I'm not trained in therapy, but from my...

I was curious and did some digging, but the actual lawsuit seems to only be accessible behind a Pacer login. However, in the search it turns up that this isn't Bean's first lawsuit. If I understand correctly, it seems he originally tried to launch his "certification" services under the name...

Bob World Builder made a nice video covering the character class & ancestry options at a GenCon demo game he was in complete with some actual stats. Many will surely change (a couple things were literally hand-written on index cards) but it's a nice preview of the general direction they are...

Wow, I know this thread has suddenly become just responding to you, but I gotta say it's amazing how you simply fixated on one particular word out of her post and completely ignored everything else she said, and thereby completely, utterly missing the point. You described a situation that you...

Yep! Plus it's not like they don't have a track record of these exact same products for past adventures. I could probably guess the contents right now with about 90% accuracy. I'm a bit torn on this oddly because I have several and absolutely LOVE Beadle & Grimm's products, but I'm actually...

You and everyone who has studied ethics rejects that as well! Just because some issues are debatable doesn't mean there is no consensus on anything at all. Sure, there can be reasonable debate on how serious these accusations are, but something like "Is not paying your employees bad?" isn't...

Actually, clicking around the links about his past ventures, I wouldn't necessarily say he got lucky with those either. ;) Only one lasted more than a couple years apparently only through near-annual visits of the VC train.

Not to detract from the far more serious accusations, but I did laugh out loud a bit at the "innovation" of getting into NFTs in 2024. Thinking that your future is excitedly hopping on a bubble that already burst a year or two ago should be disqualifying for any CEO! :ROFLMAO:

Precisely. Just echoing and elaborating… simply going from full time employment in your dream industry to suddenly unemployed can be traumatic as well. Furthermore, I know many in the generations younger than this 50 year old grognard recognize a wider range of circumstances as harm and trauma...

This has already been brought up multiple times in this thread. Yes, it is relevant to note but as already been mentioned, there are other reasons for investing including diversifying a portfolio. So, it is noteworthy, but not some "gotcha" proving their stated technology policy is necessarily...