Recent content by Maxperson

Chic Fil A had record profits spurred by the boycott against it. In N Out saw no loss due to the boycott due to loyal customers coming out in support. Amazon saw a 6% increase during a boycott. It literally has a name. The "Buycott" effect.

There was not another side to the D&D boycott as there usually is for other boycotts. That's why I said generally ineffective. Even when organized, the other side comes out in droves to counter the boycott. Most boycotts are based on politics or other social issues, and so there is generally...

Boycotts are generally just plain ineffective. There is usually a large group on the other side that comes out to rally against the boycott, and in my experience more come out to rally than are boycotting. The only effective boycott I can think of is against Target, because it managed to piss...

Isn't metaporn porn on Facebook?

Boycotts target the right people, but generally hit the wrong people. Generally owners/CEOs don't lose anything financially. If the boycott is hurting the bottom line, they cut jobs and hours to make up for it, so it's the innocent people who suffer the consequences of a boycott. And that's...

I would argue that there's a bit of product promotion happening when you use your older products. If I pull out my 5e stuff and play at a convention, people are still seeing me play a WotC product and some might go to a store and buy D&D for the first time, because they thought the game looked...

That's why it's so important for the DM to play with auto successes and auto failures. The 5e rules say not to roll unless the outcome is in doubt and failure has meaning. If you only have one of those, you don't roll. The Cleric of Osiris wouldn't be rolling at all for the vast majority of...

Some ideas. Gate the rolls behind proficiency for tasks like that. Alternatively, you can have different DCs for proficient and non-proficient, so not only does the proficient person get proficiency bonus, but the task is also easier.

100% static. The difficulty for climbing a specific rock face isn't going to change depending on who is climbing it. It's going to be DC 16 or whatever for everyone. Someone who is really, really skilled will make it look like a breeze. Someone unskilled could kill themselves on it. That...

Not what is called D&D. What IS D&D.

I'm just saying that not all opinions are correct. In this case WotC gets to be the one to decide if it's the same game or not, and they've decided that all the editions are D&D. That makes them factually correct and your opinion can't change facts.

500 people attended the first flat earth conference. Having others believe what you believe doesn't make it the belief correct.

Different iterations of the same game. And it's not just RPGs. Windows 11 is very different from Windows 95, yet they are all called Windows.

There's not enough money to make it worthwhile, and they might even lose money supporting prior editions. Far better to open those editions up to the 3rd party space.

Less does not equate to dead, so there's no exclusion going on. And third party stuff is pretty plentiful, so it's not even long-term home care. It's hiring a bunch of people to provide in-home care for you. :p