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The difference between a Darklord and a monster is motivation. Darklords are punished for personal, emotional crimes. A golem or the Tarrasque can never be a Darklord. So you use a Darklord when you want to tell a story. You use a monster when you want to create an obstacle for the party to...

I checked out after curse of Sthrad which was terrible. I have nothing but contempt for the D&D design team when it comes to adventures. A disjointed book filled with walls of incoherent text, large stretches of railroading and hurried milestone jumps to get you the level where you can finally...

I think that is a huge flaw. My favorite D&D fictional character is Tanis Half-Elven. I could relate to him as an awkward teen. To see how he handled prejudice and illogical hatred for nothing he did but because of who he was made me much more aware of injustices that others suffer and given me...

We can speculate but I think it’s telling how they are all heading to the life boats after wrecking as many campaign settings as they could. Spell Jammer was a joke, they totally missed the spirit of Dragon Lance and Ravenloft. Now they exited right before Ebberon hits the stores. The design...

Nice try but your info is wrong. Here is McDonald’s stock price as of today.

HEY, if they want to turn into the McDonalds of gaming with the same flavorless menu they can expect the same profits that McDonalds has now. Very little.

I have not seen anything for Ravenloft indicating that the domains have been substantially reconfigured. It’s really bad on WOTC to do this. No wonder the majority of the updated rules team has left.

I really don’t like the party composition and really think it reflects a lack of understanding in the Ravenloft setting. Most domains in Ravenloft aside from Sithicus were very human centric. This party would be viewed as a band of monsters that would be barred entry everywhere. It’s so...

Yes, he was. Gary was in California working on movie deals and got the cartoon made. He was not in day to day running of TSR. As far as I know it was the Blume brothers & Lorraine Williams. Many people felt Lorraine was more organized for sure but few people spoke well of her. She often picked...

I wonder if people will speculate that Chaosim will soon be going under now that Mearls is gone? Will Mike make a post about how COC is no longer cool? 🤔

It is very important to get the facts correct. Was Gygax a poor manager. Yes. Was Lorraine Williams a worse manager? IMHO, yes. She obviously did not understand the product line, mismanaged it and contributed nothing but cash. The utter failure led to the collapse and near disappearance of the...

What are you even talking about? You ask me to certify facts when you don't post any in your rebuttal makes zero sense. All you can say is see OP. That adds zero to the conversation.

I have read the recent books and also pat interviews from many people involved. Gary was long fone around 1982 as he was in Hollywood trying to get media deals done. He got the cartoon. The Blumes were involved with day to day operations once their father died. Their father was the main investor...