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It's not wrong-headed though. When MSRP goes up, everybody involved wants to increase their markup in terms of dollar value, and they claim this is just how their pricing "works". "We always do it this way; this is how our business works". So the price effect ends up much LARGER than the...

The Foundry VTT team has a spring in their step today!

This is apologia. Doesn't matter - I won't buy another WotC product as long as I live.

It's easy peasy to strip out the Pactworld stuff from SF2. You can use it for whatever you want. Now, the Ancestries and Heritages flavour may (or may not) be to your liking - depending on what you want to use them for. But they can be reskinned without difficulty. You want to make it Star Wars...

But it doesn't apply to only GRRM. It has applied to many authors who experience sudden immense mainstream success. You mention Lynch, who has had some success with Locke Lamora and the Gentlemen Bastards. Problem is, that's small scale; the sort of genre success that GRRM had in his first three...

That's the problem with GRRM. He doesn't "lovingly" design anything. He doesn't write to an outline and has only a mostly firm idea of where he wants to get to -- with no idea or set plan as to how he will get there. He describes this to writing as a "gardener" as opposed to as an "architect"...

Well, the publication dates for Vol 1-3 tell a radically different story about the effect of finances on an author's discipline: A Game of Thrones - August 1996 A Clash of Kings - November 1998 A Storm of Swords - November 2000 This is the publication history of the first three novels in the...

It's one of these: Lord of the Rings/ Middle-Earth A Song of Ice and Fire The Wheel of Time Harry Potter Star Wars Star Trek Dune You can pitch camp on any one of those hills to die upon and do so in good company. The rest is details. HOWEVER, if your pick isn't one of those seven? You are...

If Lord of the Rings "as one book" qualifies, then probably that. [Spoilers: It does not qualify as one book if we are being fair.] I believe, objectively, that the best single fantasy novel of all time is A Storm of Swords, by George R.R. Martin, Volume 3 of A Song of Ice and Fire. A Storm of...

If you want to keep Scifi out of your fantasy, it's easy enough to ignore Starfinder and just play straight out PF2, 5e or whatever. But more to the point, if you want to keep SciFi out of fantasy - don't play Starfinder. At all. It is not currently a SciFi game and does not pretend to be. That...

You are entitled to your opinion and preferences. When I mentioned them to a group of players today on discord, everyone present, without exception, snorted and dismissed it. My point: your preferences are not widely shared. Paizo is highly unlikely to accommodate them. You can like that, or...

The big thing for me is Starship Combat. In SF1 -- it's awful. I know it was Jason Bulmahn's love-letter to Starfleet Battles, but if there is ANYTHING that requires a significant playtest -- with MULTIPLE combats using the system, it's starship combat. Multiple is the key here. With Starship...

For the same reason as to why the fans cared about United Paizo Workers -- they want better working conditions for the employees. The ability to work remotely is the single greatest improvement and real wage increase Paizo workers have ever had. This allows them to move out of the Seattle area...

To be clear, SW5e s still going strong at SW5e.com Discussion on SW5e reddit and on SW5e's discord continues unabated and with new material and adventures being turned out weekly. Perhaps most importantly, development on SW5e for Foundry VTT also continues and is at a robust level of community...