Recent content by technoextreme

Yeah it may not be as malicious or evil. But there is definitely a lot of hubris involved especially when even Paizo couldn't escape covering up its bizarrely similar workplace cuture.

I really have to wonder how aware the company is that this potentially screwed them over. As I said in another thread its not like some of these people were pretty active within the TTRPG scene and to have them be treated like this is probably going to increase the ire directed at them.

The problem with this logic is that your assuming that NDAs are the only reason why anyone would hesitate to talk. Their could be safety issues. Fear of bystanders getting hurt in the blow back.

Im pretty sure that was meant to discredit the owner. Like as multiple have said AI shouldn't cause the rhetoric they are using and on top of that they weirdly admitted to overworking the employees.

I don't know how good the response was. The owner seems to underestimate how much of an issue this is for the company. Ivis and Mike are both pretty well known in the industry and its not going to be easy to smooth over for a lot of people given that it was part of the reason why people wanted...

Yeah but a bigger question is why were you having someone doing something that in theory could encompass multiple full time jobs do other things? Even if this wasn't what caused all of them to leave that's not a good situation to have your employees be in.

So six months to set up an Organized Play program seems a bit short doesn't it?

So.... I saw the potential list of names in the discord and are you at all bothered that they contemplated hiring a known sexual harasser that was banned from a convention for life. CA Suielman...

On top of that I can't think of any RPG company which hasn't tried to sweep issues of abuse and harassment under the rug.

Actually it did mention designers. Mearls did the same stupid thing that you did and not actually be bothered to read what threw him into a tizzy.

Except they said designers which means they are absolutely correct. There are no women designers listed in the credits and if Mearls wants to argue otherwise he's going to open up a whole another can of worms that he's all ready been slammed for from other people in the industry.

I was referring to OD&D which was a re-fluffed tactical war game. Hence the reason why as you even said that the wizard maps out to a striker role because the role the wizard originally had was field artillery. I think 4E mainly made the roles a bit more streamlined and obvious more than...

The problem with this argument is that guess what game introduced the concept of a defender, the concept of a striker, and the concept of a healer/leader. Its the same game you played over thirty years ago. Except thirty years ago Gygax didn't really call it striker, healer, and defender...

It would look nothing like 5E I'll tell you that much. All 5E is doing is rehashing tropes and fiction that only people in the 30 and up demographic would really have any interest in.

So what you are saying is that the perfectly mundane king in Henry V was a wizard?