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Finally got the time to sit down and watch Glicker's "analysis" and boy is it a doozy. He's not claiming WotC "bribed" Critical Role...

No, they are saying it because "Pathfinder outselling 4e" is a myth that has been debunked by the people who were there at Paizo and...

I .eqn,5E already has Inspiration, which is a metacurrency.

Basically the premise, yes.

I agree, I don't think you need to do anything to 5e to make it modular other make the specific modules. The fact that many people are...

That was my memory as well, but I wasn't sure so I didn't add that bit

The person who discussed that idea, Monte Cook also quit almost immediately after that blog post.

I guess I just think your being dishonest or misremembering (I could be too). I think you are putting a lot more importance and...

Because the broader impacts and individual risk level are way lower, D&D dominance is not nearly as intense at suppressing alternatives...

Here's the thing: I think they delivered a system in 2014 that had modular capabilities. You can weld stuff onto 5E, and hack stuff in...

Well the never informed us it was gonna happen or even what exactly that meant to them. It was discussed in some blog posts, that was...

The stakes to society are way lower in TTRPGs: WotC market leadership status doesn't give them massive power over society.

If past performance guaranteed sustained popularity we'd still gave Pan Am, Toys R Us, Blockbuster just to name a few off the top of my...

That's a big part...but the scale of the market not being a major lode for investment is another.

I agree. My point was, as is, every character pretty much has an attribute + proficiency to hit or to skills etc…. At a certain...