Recent content by Parmandur

Overall, yes, but I don't think @Zaukrie was saying otherwise. It takes a lot of hustle and luck, not an easy road to travel.

I understood where you were coming from, so I wasn't offended, but the apology is super cool.

Should be fun!

That's a point, and Perkins is lead on the first mystery Setting...

For sure, I'm certain that he made a shrewd decision based on data from the late 90's. Kind of gets old that people kept citing it into the teens as a Gospel about the games industry.

It seems like a hard market for creators, to be sure.

It wouldn't be crazy, though they do have two upcoming books that they might want to keep highlighted.

Yes, and perhaps a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy.

They did an hour long panel with Schuh and Winninger last year. Should be interesting, as they probably have a better handle on their path forward this year than they did in 2020 with Winninger just starting.

Ryan Dancey was certainly no slouch, but he didn't necessarily come to absolute, objective conclusions for all time in his analysis.

I'll believe that they were not selling well by 2E, when WotC purchased TSR.

That's actually a really common small business mistake: "if we spend X, we make Y profit, if we increase X we will profit even more!" Not how it works.

Really shows the difference between revenue and profit: at peak revenue, they had started losing money.

I both believe that Price (who is Jewish, incidentally) and others raised objections, and that Mona doesn't remember that they did, probably because it went in one ear and out another. Compatible truths. Entertaining harmful ideas for amusement, particularly in a work environment, is almost as...

Yes, most of the components of Fascist thought were. I don't at all imagine that Mona is a Fascist or a "Racist" in the hard sense of the term: but he has been playing with Racist ideas and symbolism as a side hobby around people who voiced discomfort with that, and tried to fit in weird 19th...