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Some more Bones 6 monsters. At this point I'm just grabbing and painting what looks interesting. Giant Slug was fun.

Just finishing Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver. It reads like Dickens reimagined by Flannery O'Connor. I recommend!

Magic.

To follow up on my point above: the main cost to playing D&D is time. It takes an incredible commitment from DMs, and a significant one from players. That's because it has always been designed as a kind of DIY game. Which makes it resistant to being easily monetized, IMO, for all sorts of...

Do they actually call themselves that? Who are we talking about here? That sounds more like Hasbro than the guys running WotC, who are mostly from a gaming background and, credit where due, seem pretty passionate about publishing D&D. This sounds more like Hasbro, who are very much IP-driven. I...

It gives me so many NPC ideas - not only for the "surgeon" themselves, but for some of their clients. You've got the wealthy socialite addicted to cosmetic surgery, the gangster on the run, and so on. And a cool option for the characters, as well!

So...the premise is that if she sculpts you into a more attractive statue, and then someone transmutes you back to flesh, you get to keep the nose job or tummy tuck or whatever? Like, is this actually an ingenious business model in a magical environment? I love this concept! This is a super...

Or, "hey, we are going to try something new. Would you like a job to see if you can make it work?" Hiring people to do a project that is not guaranteed to succeed is not necessarily villainous behaviour. The folks who took that job are not necessarily dupes. In retrospect, there probably was...

I think being able to conceive of something mathematically is very different from being able to envisage it, which is I think what he was getting at. For example, we can create mathematical models of black holes, so we can conceptualize them, but we can't ever observe one. With regards to...

WotC was discussing the pillars of its own D&D strategy, not what 3PP are doing. Which are, frankly, very small potatoes compared to what WotC envisaged in their original announcement for Sigil, and more relevant to the licensing discussion (see below). It is nice that WotC has continued to...

It's the norm everywhere, I think. You're hiring an artist to work on your body. If I'm going to tip my barber, I'm definitely going to tip my tattoo artist. What bugs me is suggesting that I should tip for retail service, like buying a game from a FLGS. I specifically go to my FLGSs in order...

I do think licensing is important to them, but I don't think it's huge. The movie, good as it is, was a bust, and now there's a TV show that I am sure they are hoping does some things, but that's not something they can plan around. Selling t-shirts at Old Navy, branded socks and coffee mugs and...

I definitely don't think we'll get the 3d terrain, not at anything like what Sigil offered (e.g. needing the Unreal engine). I could see Maps getting 3d miniatures and 2d terrain tiles or features that could be plunked down as part of a map-builder feature. But I'm sure the budget is way lower...

I'm not sure I follow. Making the product offer better value for money is a good way to continue to grow it. Maps has been a game-changer for a lot of folks on DDB, and we just had a thread from someone moving his entire campaign to DDB in order to use Maps. Here's the thing: 50+ years into...

I suspect that that they wanted to be able to sell the VTT - offer a basic kit to get you started, and then sell expansion packs, character models, etc. But I guess we'll never know. I don't think Sigil will be anything for the foreseeable future - I think it'll linger as a "beta" for a bit, and...

Folks were expressing the user perspective, not the corporate one. From Hasbro's perspective, sure: the root problem is "under monetization of the D&D brand." So the idea was to offer users a solution to their 3d VTT problem, except that not enough users had a 3d VTT problem to solve, and the...

T1&2; ignore the rest. But you can't skip the original, and T2 wouldn't be nearly as good without it for contrast. John Wick 1 is the only essential film, but the next two are very well done; just exactly more of the same. Agree that the entire Furious franchise is disposable.

Never mind - it's pointless.