Interesting, Gamemasters seemed convinced that it was North American customers that lost early access, having ordered the bundle and that the marketplace update was to blame. So I wonder if you know of North American pre-order people have got their early access.
I would refer you back to the Gamemasters video where he ordered both and has not received the early access release. I was wondering if other have had a similar experience?
Gamemasters Youtube Channel purchased Vecna Eve of Ruin on the belief that he would get early access to the digital copy. As did I, but I bought only the digital copy and I cannot find my email acknowledging the purchase.
And the relevant D&DBeyond thread.
Anyone else have issues?
Ok, that is not as bad as I was imagining but still if you are stressing out and feeling pressured to run games, that is not healthy. If running the game is a cause of anxiety and stress you need to accept that and find the root of that. Take time off if needed and you remember, you are not...
Man!, I ain't really going to give advice, you have got all the advice you need. Now I really do not need to know the answer but running a rpg session at a wedding party (seems odd to me but...) then driving 4 hours and running another session (at 4 a.m.) and you gotta ask: Why? That has got to...
Some interesting analysis from Treantent's Monk
In short, profits and profit margins are up at WoTC and Hasbro has spent a billion on acquiring game studios and the only big game mentioned in a G.I. Joe game.
I have seen similar in sandbox play. The tyranny of choice, some people do not handle wide open well. I would not attempt to run a Fate game, I would be willing to have a go at playing but improv (in the sense of coming up with something on the fly) has never been a thing I was any good at.
Except @overgeeked was replying to me but I have never played Fate, seen one stream but what you say fits with my intuition. Roleplay intense and world building intense is a lot more effort than a D&D style adventure path (not saying that one cannot put similar effort into a D&D game, but I am...
That first paragraph, I am not sure what you are saying. Casual gamers might not explore further because they are casual. I would expect there are a lot of casuals out there but even exposure to other games is not going to draw in most of the casuals. Unless Critical Role's Daggerheart proves me...
I think we have very different experience here because I rarely hear that those games suck. If anything it is the fans of those games claiming that D&D sucks. Dungeoncraft is pretty pro OSR and Mike Shea is very positive about non-Wizard games on his channel.