Recent content by michaeljpastor

You might like to watch Reading D&D Aloud this week, where Mike Mearls and Kelsey Dionne talk about the DMsGuild and the OGL and how it was seen and used. It's just a great conversation either way. (is there a way to suppress embeds? that thumbnail is obnoxiously huge) s

Goodness gracious. It's BOTH duck season and wabbit season! Altruism and enlightened self-interest are not mutually exclusive

Yes, and B/X and BECMI became increasingly more kid friendly as well. The original Munchkin generation (those of us who were kids who played when AD&D was released) are basically the same GenX latch key kids who suddenly had access to R-rated movies for the first time through cable. We were...

I know it's not what you meant, but at first I thought the 'it' to which you were referring was 5.5, not D&D and my reaction was, well they missed the boat on the branding of that, since they wouldn't take a stand on a version #.

Crack is whack.

And Magic's entire business model isn't?

Looks like the digital microtransaction on Project Sigil stops there...

no, that's YOUR point. My point is that there IS a difference, otherwise I wouldn't have made the distinction.

But I do see a difference, hence why I made the distinction. I established my terms, I defined them, I applied them. If one has a problem with that, then that's their issue. I see many similarities between Project Sigil and the failure of 4th edition. It was a great product. The business...

Yes, and I am speaking from the point of view of the customer (and also from someone who worked at a startup who attempted the same kind of thing in the past, which also lacked a business model in much the same way).

The most unhelpful phrase, ever.

I don't consider the business model of a product to be a part of the product.

I neglected to mention worldbuilding for others to play in in my other post when I talked about options for the future. I had mentioned it before on another thread. I envy people who have the perceptive skills to render in 3d, and I happily consume their efforts. Would I pay for it? Probably...

I don't think the product is a failure. I think the business model was. That's all.

Emphasis above mine - it's not that Project Sigil was a failure - they just concluded (correctly, IMHO) that it's not a money maker unto itself. Real Estate and clothes and furniture as a money making enterprise when it's essentially infinitely available just doesn't work. I personally don't...