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And just think what happens when you encounter someone casting Heat Metal! <shudder>

I just assume companies producing licensed games take that into account as part of their overall cost of production. It's often fascinating to me what seemingly insignificant aspect of a game can drive people away from it. I cast no aspersions here, I do the same thing. I remember getting...

They're dressed like they belong in a 1990s syndicated science fiction television show. If they had appeared on Babylon 5 I wouldn't have batted an eye.

You played D&D with a monk? What level was he? It's not too dissimilar to the Hays Code which was a guideline for American movies from the 1930s until the late 1960s. Because D&D proved so popular with kids, I imagine TSR was pretty adamant about keeping things somewhat family friendly for...

In the Wheel of Time series of books, the best scout in Mat's army was a bald, obese man named Vanin who had a habit of spitting between the gap in his teeth. He was described as being especially light on his feet for such a large man.

My LGS charges $10 but gives $5 of it in store credit to the GM and the other $5 in credit to the player. I don't think anyone at the event runs any of the adventures given out for free RPG day. I'm running a Call of Cthulhu adventure called Servants of the Lake.

Maybe I haven't played enough Tomb Raider video games. I didn't really know there was enough for it to have its own distinct setting. I'm sorry it didn't work out for Evil Hat, but I'm happy they're going to use what they've worked on so far to make something out of it.

You're absolutely right. The same is equally true of death metal. I think if D&D is ever unseated, it'll come as a surprise, but when we have a chance to look at it with a little perspective we'll figure out why.

Corpulent. She's corpulent.

If D&D ever gets dethroned as the #1 RPG, it's probably going to come as quite a surprise like the death of hair metal or the collapse of the Soviet Union.

While there's some truth to this, I'm not so cynical to think it's entirely true. How many movies studios spent tons of marketing on have flopped because it was terrible? Pepsi dumped a ton of money in marketing Crystal Pepsi but it only lasted two years (with a brief revival in 2016). The...

You know what? Maybe. Game preferences undulate with the ebb and flow of demographic changes. It's not like D&D is the same game it was in 2000 let alone 1974. One day something is going to unseat D&D as the premier RPG. But we all know it's going to be Call of Cthulhu. :-)

It takes a while for the gears of commerce to stop grinding. But as evidenced by the number of unsold Star Wars, Marvel, and Disney toys sitting on the shelves, it looks like Hasbro has been overproducing toys for the last few years.

That's exactly what makes it so great! While I don't think D&D will always be the #1 RPG, I don't see anything in Daggerheart that would indicate it might unseat D&D.

Are you kidding? Vampire made an appearance on the hit syndicated television show Real Stories of the Highway Patrol back around 1996 or so. It doesn't get more mainstream than that! Vampire brought a lot of people into RPGs who wouldn't otherwise have been caught (un)dead playing D&D...

I'm starting to wonder if everyone else who left did so because they could read the writing on the wall.

Oh, wow. For a minute I had a flashback to when we looked up movie show times in newspapers or called movie phone. The only two movies there that are bad are Cannonball Run II and Rhinestone. Everything else is pretty much gold.

My dragon from Archon Studio.