Recent content by Plageman

If it was to be released in the 90's, I'm pretty sure it would have landed with West End Games and become a d6 variant or later on a Master book sourcebook. In the 2000 it may have been an Eden Studio game powered by the Cinematic Unisystem. Both of theses companies were known for their...

Errr... So you played only Greyhawk during 3.x because it was the "default" setting of DnD ? Or only Nentir Vale during 4e era ?I guess not. AD&D 2e didn't have a default setting baked into the CRBs, classes were written as neutral as they could be regarding settings and it never was a problem...

Prices have risen across the RPG industry but the production value has also taken a huge step up from the early 2000s. The more recent issue is (for some of us anyway) that the inflation has run faster than the household income. I can certainly bear a price increase on gaming products like RPG...

The issue with the price increase is that it is not consistent on the whole ttrpg and/or boardgame market. Only a handful of companies, WotC included, have had a major raise of price. Can I pay for that price increase ? Maybe. But I may also wonder why other smaller companies have not increased...

Well... Depends on who you will talk to. We tried playing through a VTT for a couple of years but our different groups vastly prefer playing in person. If WotC pushes a digital only experience we'll not play that version. But I don't think they'll drop the printed products for now Btw I think...

I like the simplicity of 5e, even if it lack some aspect I liked in 4e and 3e and would have liked seen kept in that new iteration. Mostly my issue is with the way content is delivered with the focus on AP rather than developing settings (or at least -a- setting). I like my background books...

Yeah, Fan production is at a all time high. And quality is sometime even better than WotC own products. But it's not official releases. If they want to release something be it crunch or lore, that invalidates some fan-produced content, it is their right to do so. We are blessed with all the toys...

Look, unless I'm mistaken we're all entitled our opinion ;) As far as I'm concerned I've bought a lot of WotC products including -recent- products. Call me a boomer if you will but I'm not the target audience for the current market of WotC products. I'm genuinely curious about their 5e refresh...

I'm not concerned about staggered release, I'm concerned about book-to-book incoherent content. Because the MM book will take 6-9 month more time to be released and will see it's content change evolve, making the first in the line, the PHB, need to be corrected to stay consistent. But to be...

Third party publisher with printed products may want to leave the 5e market; it's already happening with Kobold Press and Troll Lord Games. What I'm more curious about is what will happen to the thousand of the PDF-only/PoD products in the DM's Guild.

I'd say nay with the rule number two in some aspects. I love to surprise my players with abilities and spells that my NPCs are the only one to have access to. It helps deconstructing the habits some players have of applying their knowledge of the game to their characters.

And Eric has a sword now. No longer is he hiding behind the shield 😁

Anakin's story has already been expanded greatly through the Clone Wars tv series. Heck you could even roll in Rebels with its Darth Vader arcs. Luke and Leia could still be part of a "cinematic" universe through the same sort of initiative; TV Series, comics and novels can fill that gap...

Well, what they can do is phase out the importance of the events of the new trilogy and re-focus themselves on other events in the SW universe. That shouldn't be a problem for them since none of the "new generation" is interested in returning for an encore. They can just make a nice time jump...

The main difference between the current situation and what happened back in the early 2000's is that there won't be shelf space occupied by lesser quality products. Now everything is handled via PDF and/or kickstarter orders. But I do agree with you with products being converted from a...