Recent content by TheAlkaizer

I agree. But I do think it's a cause for much friction. I'm sure it'll ease over a few months.

I had zero interest in Daggerheart. But I've read a bit about it in the past days and there's interesting ideas. My interest is growing. I think the issues I see most raised are with the metacurrencies and the narrative that's more freeform than in more rigid designs. Having been brought up on...

D&D has gnomes. Every game needs a martyr.

Ultraviolet Grasslands is absolutely phenomenal. Most people don't know this, but it's just a setting. There was an accompanying PDF with a simple OSR ruleset available, but technically there's no rule. It's just some weird goodness with gorgeous and evocative moebius-like art. It's definitely...

I finished this a few weeks ago. I highly recommend it. It definitely was one of the best history books I read in the last two or three years. I've taken a break of reading from the last month (as if I'm not reading TTRPG stuff everyday). Right now I have two books on my nightstand, don't know...

I ran a pretty long campaign of Starfinder 1E and had a blast. However, some of the rules were a bit tedious and when they announced making a 2E with PF2E's chassis, I was invested. Now, I've followed the playtest and development on and off. I definitely have no played it. So this is entirely...

Piracy is a complicated topics. But it's an issue of economics of accessibility (or user experience). I don't have any researched numbers, but I know that a vast majority of pirates pirate video games because they either can't afford them, can't access them or the user experience of pirating it...

I agree. But I think that the value of something is irrelevant. We're talking about perceived value. That's why I'm saying that the PDF isn't inherent less valuable, but my perceived value of it is different. And we have the same situation in video games. Indies tend to lower the price of their...

You're mostly right. But the thing is that Perkins and Crawford most likely didn't have to make any of these decisions at WotC. If we'd talk about someone like Kevin Crawford (Without Number games), there's no doubt in my mind that in addition to being a creative, he had to just go through it...

Exactly, excellent creatives doesn't mean great entrepreneurs.

Morrus is right that it's a balance between what makes sense for the publishers and the buyer. For reasons that are hard to explain, I would never pay 60$ for a PDF. I do it all the time with books, even if they have the same content. It's not entirely logical, I think it really stems that it...

I don't disagree with this, but I feel like you're describing a situation like we're a bunch of executives around a table trying to capture a new market and grow the industry. Nobody is trying to grow the industry in China. Most creators are making a little creative thing that they enjoy, and...

Personally, I prefer the boxed style. Might be out of habit and expectations.

It's never been a purchase factor for me. However, it does affect my experience with the product after. I used to dig the big hardcovers. I'm falling more and more in love with digest size books.

The report speaks about what happened in the past few months, before their departure. And the fact that Hasbro is making money and sales could reassure you on some aspects of D&D's future (will their release more content, be more ambitious, etc) but I see very little overlap with the worries...