Recent content by SlyFlourish

I don't think it achieved the goal of wanting to regain control over the whole 5e ruleset and stop things like Solasta from getting made. But I think they're pretty happy getting to select which companies they want to work with to get their taste of the profits. The OGL is barely being used now...

I'm working on a show topic for my Lazy RPG Talk Show tomorrow and thought I'd share the notes here to get people's thoughts. "you’re going to hear people say that they won, and we lost because making your voices heard forced us to change our plans. Those people will only be half right. They...

From Polygon back in May 2024: "What fans can have is a triumphant multi-chapter climax that puts the players at the forefront of a demonic war with thousands of frantic combatants....These final few battles, including one that is the result of a very personal betrayal, are a fitting end for...

In fairness, I didn't run it. I just read it and thought it didn't sound like something I wanted to run. I had the knight from town do it while the characters were elsewhere. They ran into the deposed harpies which was fun.

I have. I dig it. I’ve talked about pirate borg before.

In a completely unrelated topic, some web clippers, like the Obsidian web clipper, are fantastic at grabbing HTML and turning it into Markdown. And there are scripts and tools to take markdown and turn it into epubs!

You're getting me off on my other rant that the whole industry should be publishing in Markdown and EPUB as well... Raging Swan is doing it. I'm doing it. Some others are doing it. EPUBs give that same multi-platform flexibility, improved accessibility, archivability, and convertability but our...

The irony here is that WOTC is just plain leaving money on the table by not releasing 5e material in PDFs. If they did so, they'd immediately start making money. The cost to produce and deliver PDFs is likely very low for them, considering the library they currently have on the DM's Guild for...

It was also hard to transfer your audience over from DMs Guild to any other platform. You really didn't have access to your customers. It was much more like you were a writer and WOTC / DTRPG were the publishers instead of you being a publisher and them owning the platform.

Shorts; whether they're Instagram, Tiktok, or YouTube shorts; can get like 10x the views of longer-form videos (or even more) but I've heard from a few creators that it's equally harder to get those viewers to engage with you anywhere else. They don't "convert" to your other mediums if you have...

Many creators I talked to said that they had a much more vibrant marketplace on the DM's Guild for newer creators. I won't say they're wrong, but I think the price for that was higher than they took into account. 50% royalties is pretty bad for a digital product and not ever being able to...

Neither does D&D Beyond it seems, which is definitely a benefit all around.

It’s different in a couple of ways. First, WOTC publishes dominant competing products on the same platform and second, they’re choosing which products get published. Also, given the global legal trouble apple has has with the app store, I’m not sure it’s a good model to use as a success story...

Yeah. that's not true.

I did too! https://www.rpgdrop.com/why-long-form-still-matters-mike-shea-on-writing-rpgs-and-resisting-the-algorithm/