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To be honest, Catalyst isn't the best, but it isn't the worst either. There have been many scandals and controversies at Catalyst, but those have also been at WotC and I'm not really seeing people stop buying D&D and MtG products... I also think that Catalyst depends on the brand. I've only been...

Started D&D with the Dutch version of the 'basic' (Red box) about 35 years ago (but actually started pnp RPGs with 'Oog des Meesters', also called 'The Dark Eye' in English), moved to the English version of AD&D 2E not that long after. Our 2e campaign eventually petered out, but thanks to Eric...

Now, but it wasn't always and it doesn't have to be so in the future. Remember Worldcom and the dotcom bubble? And in car manufacturing land, remember GM? One of the Big Three car manufacturers in the US (went bankrupt), Chrysler, another one of the Big Three is now a (tiny) label/brand from a...

Xanathar the new iconic bad guy? ;)

Where there's a will, there's a way. With Musk we've seen that with Twitter, we've seen that with the Cybertruck, we've seen that with his possible political appointment... While Musk is cash poor, he still has a LOT of assets people deem valuable. That generally means he can borrow against...

Says the person typing on a computer... How many 'jobs' were taken by computers and automation, many. Advances in technology changes jobs people do and how they do it. The printing press took a lot of 'jobs' of people transcribing books by hand, but would you rather live without printed books...

What kind of choice do they have? Which studio could do a BG4 justice AND would want to work with WotC/Hasbro after Larian Studios made it very clear they wouldn't do it under no circumstances... And Larian was a group of developers that always wanted to make a D&D crpg, so they ignored a lot of...

Yeah, I remember the old site, it allowed us to play 3rd edition before the books were even out. Got us out of the 2e slump we were in... Still playing with most of that group today!

Cocks earned a 2023 base salary of $1.5 million, stock awards and options of roughly $11 million, and nearly $2 million in performance pay, according to the company's (Nasdaq: HAS) 2024 proxy statement. What he's earning in 2024 we'll see in 2025. And WotC/Hasbro didn't even do that...

Wait... What? There is no written/signed agreement at all? If that's the case how is your salary upheld? I'm a freelancer (so a business to business relationship with my client) and don't have any of the normal employee protections. But I still have a contract that lay out my responsibilities...

I'm kind of curious how those number line up compared to pre-pandemic numbers compensated with inflation. Hasbro 2019: https://investor.hasbro.com/news-releases/news-release-details/hasbro-reports-revenue-and-operating-profit-growth-full-year-and Inflation 2019-2024 (23.3%)...

At this point I honestly don't care. If you went to work for WotC in the last 20+ years, you know they're doing these on the regular, you knew what you were getting into. If not, then this is a good learning experience. I'm a (semi) fan of D&D, not a fan of WotC/Hasbro and don't know the people...

I've always found Ars Magica interesting, it always reminded me of Mage: The Sorcerers Crusade/Dark Ages in a good way. Our group would never have played it though, thus I never picked it up physically. Until the Bundle of Holding came out with all the AM5e pdfs (no DRM AND via DTRPG), thus...

Everything changes, and it all stays the same.

I on the other hand roll on the "Right tool for the job." side of things. I don't give two Fs on how much effort was put into X for me to use it, as long as X is useful to me. And someone could have gone to great lengths to have written something and it can be still absolutely terrible. And as...

Because 'someone's AI slop' isn't zero work and probably cost some money for subscriptions. The non-zero work includes prompting 'skills'. We have been able (and have done so) to create our own settings, our own adventures, and even our own rules for decades AND we still buy the 'slop' created...

You better drench them in holy water first, or next thing you know, they're playing death metal all night long...

That's a load of BS! In all cases it's a problem with the consumer, not reading well enough and/or not understanding what they're buying. Let me start by saying up front that I find that Wizkids (prepainted) miniatures tend to be quite expensive (I bought the gigantic Tiamat) and the painting...

I've stopped watching on Netflix after 5min. I'll probably watch it when I'm in the mood for that kind of campy silliness. But I'm told we exactly replicated the Speak with Dead scene today... ;) But those that did watch it in my group were very enthusiastic as they found the campy silliness to...

According to the 5e Teleport spell, they take 3d10 force damage and you reroll on the table to see where they land... The teleport spell is very clear on how it works... If you throw 'mishap' again, another 3d10 force damage and keep rerolling. Besides that, it's either on target, a similar...