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MerricB replied to the thread Project Sigil 90% Of D&D’s Project Sigil Team Laid Off.It laid off six people. Six. Warner Games shuttered Player First Games AFTER the quick death of MultiVersus. (It launched in beta to... -
MerricB reacted to Remathilis's post in the thread Project Sigil 90% Of D&D’s Project Sigil Team Laid Off with
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Sigil released at the WORST time to be doing this. The United States is attempting economic suicide right now with tariffs and trade... -
MerricB reacted to Kurotowa's post in the thread Project Sigil 90% Of D&D’s Project Sigil Team Laid Off with Like.
Indeed. While I feel for the people that are out of a job, nothing in this sequence of events feels unreasonable. Wizards took a chance...
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MerricB replied to the thread Project Sigil 90% Of D&D’s Project Sigil Team Laid Off.I would not be at all surprised if that is the case.
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MerricB replied to the thread Project Sigil 90% Of D&D’s Project Sigil Team Laid Off.Many people told Gary Gygax that D&D would have low interest. (e.g. Avalon Hill).
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MerricB replied to the thread Project Sigil 90% Of D&D’s Project Sigil Team Laid Off.I'm going to be utterly astonished if it stays around - despite what Andy says. I hope he finds a new job soon! He's too talented to...
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MerricB replied to the thread Project Sigil 90% Of D&D’s Project Sigil Team Laid Off.My take is that Project Sigil is dead. They saw the interest in it - and it was LOW. (See Concord from last year). I'm not actually...
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MerricB replied to the thread D&D General Why Combat is a Fail State - Blog and Thoughts.Some of the things OSR people are reacting against... are quite visible in actual Old School products. "Modern" D&D didn't come from...
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MerricB reacted to Remathilis's post in the thread D&D General Why Combat is a Fail State - Blog and Thoughts with Like.
See I don't see where that's any different than any other modern well-designed dungeon in Pathfinder or 5e. It ain't exactly "Old...
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MerricB reacted to Ruin Explorer's post in the thread D&D 5E Obojima: Tales from the Tall Grass with Like.
Let's be real. People aren't KS'ing this because they're actually going to run it, they're KS'ing it because of the art/concept. So it...
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MerricB reacted to Shardstone's post in the thread D&D General Why Combat is a Fail State - Blog and Thoughts with Like.
I'm someone who learned D&D largely through 5E. It has never made sense to me that people act like 5E is a game that enforces balanced...
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MerricB reacted to Remathilis's post in the thread D&D General Why Combat is a Fail State - Blog and Thoughts with Like.
Ok, the paranoid "triple check everything" approach.
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MerricB reacted to Remathilis's post in the thread D&D General Why Combat is a Fail State - Blog and Thoughts with Like.
Right, which makes them paranoid that everything and anything will kill them, so they take excoriatingly long times to handle even the...
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MerricB reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread D&D General Why Combat is a Fail State - Blog and Thoughts with Like.
This constantly comes up in the context of D&D5e players trying out PF2e; the latter assumes a certain degree of commitment to and...
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MerricB reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General Why Combat is a Fail State - Blog and Thoughts with Like.
I know I'm a bit late to the party on this one, but this pretty well encapsulates exactly my problem with a lot of OSR. I don't think...