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If it isn't released with a reissue of the first edition Indiana Jones game rules, I'm not interested. yes - the rules that didn't include character creation rules. Those rules.

I almost included that in my post - that I think it's all about keeping the name so that Section 9 can be met with the new license. But then I thought "do I really know enough about this to state that that would actually work?" and decided I'd just go with "pretending it's an open license" to...

One of the problems with all of this is Wizards misunderstanding what an open license is or pretending that the OGL 1.1 or 1.2 are actually open licenses and not just licenses. It's hard to be on the same page with them when they're attempting to rescind an open, share-alike license and think a...

True - it's still morning in Renton after all. Still - I suspect that their marketing and D&D teams are lying low right now and cursing their bosses for making their lives harder. The survey said that they'd have results to discuss mid February right? Maybe they're hoping the survey results...

Yeah - I've never been a big Nerf guy and my kid isn't really into it either. I'd say Transformers or GI Joe would hurt, but it really wouldn't. Despite being engines of nostalgia for my nearly half-century old self I don't actually spend any money on them anymore. I do own the Renegade...

The thing is that the first movie that Marvel made as part of their cinematic universe - Iron Man - was built to be a good action movie first and foremost. It's a completely standalone movie except for a few teases towards things that comics fans knew were a thing (like SHIELD) and a...

I mean here's the thing. If they back off entirely then I'm happy to continue to buy Hasbro stuff. If they continue with their moves to remove the existing SRDs out of the OGL 1.0 then I don't have to buy anything from Hasbro again. I don't even think of it as a boycott, just not buying from a...

Not always. Often pumping up the value of the companies shares it the company goal. This can sometimes align with making money long term. But sometimes it leads to very bad short term decisions that might make things go up in the short term but actually cost money in the long term. In this...

So back in the 90s TSR threatened to do exactly this sort of thing. They sent out cease and desist letters to fan sites all over the internet to tell them to take down material that infringed on their copyrights. And they weren't talking about copies of their published work, they were talking...

OK I'll revise my statement for pedantry. If they keep saying that people can't use the 5.1 srd anymore under the 1.0a ogl by claiming they've deauthorized it. Rather than backing off and saying the 1.0a ogl is still in effect and offering to update it to a 1.0b version that clarifies they...

I will say that the first Fast and Furious movie was made at a time when Hollywood wasn't so hostile towards making a script that wasn't based on anything already existing. 2001 doesn't feel like it was that long ago, but in terms of how the film landscape has shifted it might as well be 50...

Interesting. I think they'll dig their heels in on a few key points and eventually tell folks to like it or lump it. It has the smell of some executive's baby around it to kill the OGL and it's tough to stop a bullheaded exec once they get an idea in their head. And the 1.2 version can't be...

I suspect they probably assumed margins similar to what Wizards has, adjusted slightly for the fact that Wizards is bigger and can afford to make larger print runs of things. I also suspect that they guessed wrong about how much bigger Wizards actually is and how much more leverage they have to...

I guarantee that whoever came up with those numbers threw them together without understanding things like "manufacturing", "printing" and "shipping" costs. "Everything is digital these days. Your marginal costs are 0 once the stuff is made right? So we can scrape a tax off the top with no...

The thing is, to believe that they are masterminding some way to put 3pp out of business I have to believe that they're clever people using various tricks to try to misdirect people into thinking one thing while they're doing another. Meanwhile I actually believe that they're just mediocre...

I don't know if this is what's going on at your company, but it's amazing how much the system is configured to get publicly traded corporations to twist themselves in knots and make short term decisions on behalf of people who want to sell their ownership stake in a company. Especially when...

You don't even have to buy the book - Archives of Nethys: Starfinder RPG Database - Home (Though I personally find the physical book or even a PDF of the physical book to be an easier casual read than the archive. YMMV.)

I think that's the problem. I'm not even sure they are getting folks making those kind of lowball offers. And depending on how things go you could buy it for a dollar and still end up losing millions before you're all done...

I don't know, I enjoyed Legend of the Five Rings back in the day but his more recent work has been... Oh - not that John Wick. Right. Ok.

Also this is the wrong time to try to get someone to buy into a movie/tv studio. What with almost all of the major players who buy content currently having no consistent direction and sending very mixed signals about what the future is going to look like going forward. The streaming market being...