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occam reacted to Jacob Lewis's post in the thread D&D General Self-Defeating Rules in D&D with
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I think the “GP outweighed kills in XP” point gets repeated as if it’s a silver bullet, but I don’t think it proves what people often... -
Armour was pretty effective, otherwise they would not have spent all that money getting it. Is part of a pretty good series on the...
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Some of these posts remind me of the people who claim that a modern tank is easy to take out because "All you have to do is throw a...
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occam replied to the thread D&D General Self-Defeating Rules in D&D.It's worth noting that it hasn't always been this way. In 3e, elves and half-elves had low-light vision (normal vision in dim light...
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And the Joys of At Least Occasional "Simulationism" There's an approach to rule-making that shows up in a few places in D&D 5e (and...
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occam reacted to Parmandur's post in the thread Wizards of the Coast Head Explains Benefits to D&D Franchise Model with Like.
Earlier this year, when they announced this, Mike Mearls had said this about the change:
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occam reacted to AlViking's post in the thread Wizards of the Coast Head Explains Benefits to D&D Franchise Model with Like.
Better for who? I get that some people have this concept of an ideal, altruistic owner but there's no guarantee that owner would make a...
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occam reacted to Parmandur's post in the thread Wizards of the Coast Head Explains Benefits to D&D Franchise Model with Like.
I have heard of enshittification. I have also heard of hammers, that doesn't mean everything I see is a nail.
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occam reacted to Hussar's post in the thread Wizards of the Coast Head Explains Benefits to D&D Franchise Model with Like.
No, it's more that some of us have heard about the "enshittification" of D&D for decades now and we're rather tired of it. Weren't you...
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occam reacted to Parmandur's post in the thread Wizards of the Coast Head Explains Benefits to D&D Franchise Model with Like.
Prime case in point: the cocaine fueled fiasco that was Gygax/Blume era TSR.
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occam reacted to mamba's post in the thread Wizards of the Coast Head Explains Benefits to D&D Franchise Model with Like.
they do not vote on business decisions, at all. They vote once a year whether they trust the leadership of the company, but that is it
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occam reacted to mamba's post in the thread Wizards of the Coast Head Explains Benefits to D&D Franchise Model with Like.
that usually is a function of the company being smaller, not so much its shareholder structure these kinds of shareholders also do not...
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occam reacted to mamba's post in the thread Wizards of the Coast Head Explains Benefits to D&D Franchise Model with Like.
selling more products to more customers is serving the shareholders. Getting people to buy more of your products should mean that you...
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occam reacted to mamba's post in the thread Wizards of the Coast Head Explains Benefits to D&D Franchise Model with Like.
and you do not think that the way to make more money is to release more good products that people buy?
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occam reacted to AlViking's post in the thread Wizards of the Coast Head Explains Benefits to D&D Franchise Model with Like.
Who gets to decide enough is enough? Why the artificial limit? Why not employ more people, pay more people to produce something people...