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A stunt is designed to generate loud but short lived audience engagement vs most PR which is focused on building brand good will over the long term which is to be spent later when your C suite does some thing stupid or you have to take unpopular actions. Hasbro/WOTC has one of the worst comms...

This reeks of a PR stunt, “DnD and Gygax back together again!” Who is the target audience for this? What market niche are they hoping to exploit by bringing back Greyhawk, an ancient and nearly forgotten setting and attaching the Gygax name (hallowed saints among the OSR).

Just coming back to this thread to respond to the title, gonna let you know that the Books A Million in my little tiny ass town in Central Kansas has more Cosmere RPG stuff on the shelf for sale than Dungeons & Dragons. The clerk told me its out selling all the other role playing books.

First off your rolling to often as most people who don’t play skill bases systems do. Per page 31 of the core rule book in the call out box labeled “ONLY ONE CHANCE” “As a rule, you only have one chance to succeed with any action. Once you have rolled the dice, you may not roll again to achieve...

I personally believe there are two main reasons. One is GM burn out especially for games with complex rules like DnD5e the second is that long campaigns are inherently unnatural as most stories are relatively short and have well defined beginning middle end structure. If you look at the vast...

I love how he just pinballs through high level industry jobs doing either unremarkable or actively damaging work and then blows himself up by saying the stupidest takes in public. Lets see which gaming company hires him next since its clear hes blessed by the gods of failing up.

One of the worst print on demand books I ever got was from Lulu. It fell apart in less than a month. Books produced print on the demand are not great, but lightning source does a pretty damn good job for the volume they handle.

My approach is always been to run through a couple of situations 100% rules is written to get a feel for the system maybe play a session or two and then start thinking about what I like and don’t like and making small changes as we go. A good example is hit points, I hate hit points I don’t care...

I just want to say that this has become one of the most civil and academic discussions of racism out side of a university setting I have read in a very long time and it warms the cackles of my political science heart.

I can’t agree more on the whole grim dark thing. I am so tired of Settings being Grimm dark. I actually went back and rewrote my 70,000 word draft novel because I wanted to be more hopeful because Grimm dark is just dumb. A grim dark society doesn’t function at all unless it is literally at its...

I wish I could, but new siding on the house has trumped all gaming fun for the next couple years. Going to try to get a game in at our localish con midwest game fest in kansas city in april though!

When I played a lot of Wargames, we often had role-play elements incorporated especially in BattleTech. I feel like it was pretty common in most games except Games Workshop stuff which didn’t lend it self to real roleplaying, narrative sure but not much in the way of actual role play the way I...

Oh yes, the forge. Is there anything that the folks on the Forge didn’t claim credit for creating in the gaming hobby? They sure as hell didn’t come up with the term heartbreaker because we were using heartbreaker in the late 80s early 90s well before the forge even existed. I’m sorry you had...

This is how I always saw it used but much like grognard ( in wargaming its a term of endearment for older grumbly gamers) the youngs like take old things out of context/connotation and completely change the meaning/usage. Language evolves I guess.

This feels like chasing the market if the market was a couple years ago, dungeon crawlers are waning right now as we’ve had quite a glut of them the last 10 years or so. MCDM looks like a company thats building a business model on stringing along kickstarters hope it works out for them.