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It is interesting just how much of a game-changer (pun intended) the Open Gaming License was in the industry. When Wizards of the Coast bought D&D from TSR, they didn't have to give us an open license. Nobody asked them for one, it wasn't a requirement of the purchase agreement (as far as I...

There's no such thing as a "bad click" or a "bad view" on YouTube at the moment. The content creator gets paid either way, so they have no incentive to be honest, factual, or even pleasant. You've already clicked on their video, so they've already gotten everything out of you that they...

As far as I can tell, project management is basically emailing people a list of things to do and then watching them not do those things.

I'll have to take your word for it. I made it halfway through S1:E1 and decided it wasn't for me.

Oh yeah, for sure. If I ranked geek fandoms by order of awfulness, D&D doesn't even make it to the Top Five.

But it's got Matt Mercer's face on the thumbnail! How are you not outraged?!

I think that for some players, each mission objective is "the game," and all of the story and background and world-building and behind-the-scenes stuff is just the setup. I have had players who honestly believe in their heart that a "game of D&D" doesn't start until they step into a dungeon...

Management is like a dog sled team. Unless you're the lead dog, the scenery never changes.

Tangent, and unpopular opinion: this is how I feel about "Field of Dreams."

The concepts of winning and losing are difficult in a story-based, episodic game...which most RPGs are. My take on it: an RPG is a vehicle for different stories and missions. Your character can complete or fail those missions, but the game doesn't end when they do. So you might "win" or...

I've been telling my nieces and nephews that this is Rage Against the Machine:

I know, I know. I gotta fix that.

A solid list. For me personally: I've never seen Mank or The Killer I'd swap The Social Network with Gone Girl But yeah, that's a good ranking you've got there, Snarf.

Yep, I can agree with that. Times change, and pop culture changes with it.

And I'm a Klingon, not an orc. I am a completely different green-skinned, muscular humanoid with a warlike culture and rigid system of honor! We have totally different dead gods, and our jagged weapons have totally different names!

Dinehart has some...interesting energy in these posts.

I think the part that bothered me was the "just fooling themselves" dismissal. It felt a bit like my words were being twisted. But I'm better now.

From my perspective, most TTRPGs are adaptations of D&D. In my opinion, as far as I'm concerned, according to me, etc. That's what's going on. I'm not issuing edicts from on high, I'm not attacking anyone, I'm merely stating my opinion. As requested by the OP. To that point, "It can't be D&D...

Is it literal? It's hard to say. He wrote that on his blog a few years ago during one of the big edition changes in D&D...I think it was 3E, but it might have been 4E or Pathfinder, or during the early "D&D Next" days of 5E. Anyway, lots of folks in the hobby were complaining about how that...