Recent content by lyle.spade

Cop Rock RPG

Agreed...that much for a 196-page book? Nope; no; not going to happen.

I've played Traveller, on and off, since the LBBs. Mongoose's latest version is Traveller, with some minor revisions and additions to update it just a touch and smooth out some slightly rough edges. It's great - really, I think it's the best version of the rules.

Interesting ideas, but I'll suggest one revision: the notion of a "Pure Imperialist" colony - one without any economic, strategic, or other benefit to the home country - only works well in a setting where the antagonist is twisting his mustache and needs no reason for his evil schemes other than...

They do have a consistent history over the last several years of finding ways to piss off their fans, show a tin ear to their community, and show that they don't care about individuals. Sounds like a big, dumb company that's interested in profit over a quality product. If you do the latter, and...

WOTC is such a crappy company, putting out trash games. Just accept it and take your money elsewhere.

Great show - used to catch it every week right after Magnum PI

I anxiously await a Simon & Simon RPG, as well.

This would have made a much better PHB cover than the other piece of art.

HA. Yeah...I can see so much of their art being the result of the dreaded committee...they have a too-long meeting, everyone feels like they need to add something, and when they all think, finally, they're going to be done, someone else brings up "but what about Dragonborn??" and another hour of...

Great idea - it'd be original, at this point.

When everything is awesome, when every battle or scene is epic...it's all boring. DnD art has been striving for AWESOMELY WORLD-SHAKING ACTION!!!! for the last two editions so hard that it's not at all remarkable anymore.

Good points, and yet the company isn't helping the issue by pushing more things online. Consumers will go where stuff is cheap, but given WOTC's dominance of the market, they could choose to better support FLGSs; instead, their move to perhaps all or mostly digital is a huge middle finger to them.

I wonder what share of FLGS RPG sales are books as compared to minis and other accessories. WOTC, by going more and more digital, is actually at least partially responsible for killing the physical stores that have served the community since the beginning. But all WOTC cares about is money, and...

Thanks - details are helpful! :)