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Parmandur reacted to Clint_L's post in the thread WotC Chris Perkins announces Retirement from Dungeons and Dragons with
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I'm not sure how you define "break-out success", but it was definitely unexpectedly successful right out of the gate. Perkins deserves a... -
Parmandur reacted to FitzTheRuke's post in the thread WotC Chris Perkins announces Retirement from Dungeons and Dragons with Like.
If they'd shown a few tens of thousands of units, I might have thought, "Yeah, those BookScan numbers are unreliable, but it makes sense...
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Parmandur reacted to Dire Bare's post in the thread WotC Chris Perkins announces Retirement from Dungeons and Dragons with Like.
That was true for D&D before 5th Edition. It was not necessarily true for other RPGs, and it is not the sales model WotC has pursued for...
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Parmandur reacted to bedir than's post in the thread WotC Chris Perkins announces Retirement from Dungeons and Dragons with Like.
It's notable that the "D&D is dying" clickbaiter that used bad Bookscan data never released any other Bookscan data despite supposedly...
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Parmandur reacted to FitzTheRuke's post in the thread WotC Chris Perkins announces Retirement from Dungeons and Dragons with Like.
Not really, no. We could get better information than what we've been given, probably. I'd try it, but I'm not sure that it's worth...
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Parmandur reacted to darjr's post in the thread WotC Chris Perkins announces Retirement from Dungeons and Dragons with Like.
It was. Because clickbait is a powerful drug.
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Parmandur reacted to Gradine's post in the thread WotC Chris Perkins announces Retirement from Dungeons and Dragons with Like.
Yeah, wasn't the whole BookScan thing thoroughly debunked like the moment it started prompting clickbait titles from that part of...
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Parmandur reacted to BruceWright's post in the thread WotC Chris Perkins announces Retirement from Dungeons and Dragons with Like.
I work under a contract that says that ideas i come up with in the same industry belong to the company. Whether folks think that’s...
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Parmandur replied to the thread Wheel of Time S3.In my experience, it is neither who do. Which is, also, a major theme of the novels. Robert Jordan said that he really wanted to...
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Parmandur replied to the thread Wheel of Time S3.Some people level it as a criticism of the books ("these guys are stupid, this would never work!"), but I rather feel that is missing...
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This had only been hinted at in the show up until now, but this last episode showed it very explicitly, with Liandrin's group getting...
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Parmandur reacted to Dire Bare's post in the thread WotC Chris Perkins announces Retirement from Dungeons and Dragons with Like.
WotC definitely could claim ownership over Perkin's Iomandra campaign, and anything else he developed while working for WotC . . . but I...
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Parmandur replied to the thread Wheel of Time S3.It was a definite theme in the novels that the Forsaken were fundamentally broken and incapable of working together properly...and that...
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Parmandur reacted to EthanSental's post in the thread WotC Chris Perkins announces Retirement from Dungeons and Dragons with Like.
Kind of an odd take given the lack of public facing info and that Chris even said it was selling like gang busters and he was going out...
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Parmandur replied to the thread WotC Chris Perkins announces Retirement from Dungeons and Dragons.That's not uncommon for creative publishing fields: you work for Board Company X, you sign a contract that any board game you design...