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Franchise model is how things worked from 2014 to 2020 or so. One group steered D&D and worked with licensees to set up their content...

It’s a plausible-looking curve of DDB users. I don’t think the problem is with the curve, but with people who want it to have more...

It was kind of inevitable that 2024 would have the largest sales on release given how much the player base has grown over the course of...

Aren’t those the same thing?

Just some interesting numbers shared- obviously not directly tied to the graph but it's relevant. 10M users in 2022 to 21M today.

John recently passed. He was part of several of my post-pandemic restriction campaigns. When talking to his wife I found out that he...

We had a player, I'll call him Bob, find out he had a brain tumor in the summer of 2024. After getting things more thoroughly looked...

A player I had is gone 2.5 years now. He had pancreatic cancer which is a real bad kind. He fought hard. We met back in ‘09 in...

I've lost a few friends that I gamed with, none were active at any table I played in at the time they died, but I had played games with...

I had a friend named Bryan. He was autistic and not in great shape and went too early. When we met him, it took our group some time to...

I've run Bone Tomahawk adventures like ten times now and love them. So has Rob Schwalb for Shadow of the Demon Lord and Shadow of the...

I came here just to say this. I wrote a whole article about it: https://slyflourish.com/seven_samurai_dnd.html

Magnificent Seven, aka Seven Samurai. The classic tale of a town hiring your players as mercenaries to protect them from a band of...

These are fantastic observations! Can you talk a little more about the 600 games? Over what period of time? I'm assuming like six to ten...

Things I learn from being a DM for 600 Adventure League sessions. 1. The rules and guidance will always be adjusted, late, and location...