Recent content by Reinhart

For a more interesting campaign, replace "when the storm giant dies, its elemental weapons disappear." with "when the storm giant dies, sometimes its consciousness lingers within its elemental weapon, creating an intelligent magical item."

My sentiments exactly. It's enough revenge just to prosper in a world where he was clearly wrong and we get to tolerate and even love the lives that he condemned.

I definitely sympathize with those people who want more monsters. There's nothing wrong with wanting or getting more monsters. That said? Most of the monsters already in 5e are just assorted bags of hitpoints with a random selection of ability scores. What really makes each monster distinct are...

This is the first preview in recent memory where I'm genuinely curious to read more. Random roleplaying traits for my NPC's and monsters are something I can actually use to make my games more interesting.

Plus, he's wearing that magic leather armor when he could just as easily pawn it off, buy some studded leather for the same benefit, and donate the rest towards some noble cause like feeding an orphanage for year! ;)

It's also a matter of "eyeballs" for marketing/distribution. If you want sales past your initial Kickstarter campaign, then most of your customer base is probably browsing the DMsGuild and not looking for D&D content at Drivethru. That said, Kickstarters are partly about marketing and measuring...

I'm not saying they should host it. I'm saying they should review and preview it in greater detail. Similar to the article they did a month or so ago, but with greater detail so that I might actually consider purchasing the items. They make a significant percentage of each of those sales, so it...

Yes, it seems like such a simple solution, given that they already have it working throughout the rest of the OBS store system. If DMsG lacks that feature, it makes me think there may have been an intentional reason to disable it.

My own suggestion is that a lot of content could be generated just curating and previewing more of the content from the DM's Guild. That way it continues to serve as an advertising medium while providing a service to the D&D community. Unfortunately, I think that's still more effort than they're...

For several Kickstarters I've funded in the past I received coupons to download my product through OneBookShelf. Perhaps that's the proper solution? The funders still get their product, but it has to work through OBS links. However, as I'm still on the customer end of this system I still don't...

Yeah, I'm actually looking forward to a new update for Betrayal.

I don't think it's fair to "blame" 4th Edition on Greg Leeds. He arrived after the game had already gone through most of its development. I think we should recognize 4th Edition for what it really was: An honest attempt by the WotC game designers to update D&D into a new business model and...

Part of the problem is that Magic was designed as a table-top game in 90's and Hearthstone was designed to be an internet game in 2014. There are many components and game mechanics to Magic the Gathering that make it hard to design for as far as User Experience. Even if you get a near perfect...

I think this is similar to what corporate accountants call "goodwill." D&D doesn't make much money, but it carries a cultural cachet that suggests it has potential for greater value. I suspect that when Hasbro does figure out how to make D&D more mainstream, it will probably still make most of...

I'm genuinely impressed he managed to put out a line of YA novels while also managing other teams and projects. I guess that's the level of organization and executive skills you should expect from the CEO of a multimillion dollar firm.