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Hottest take: I miss the TTRPG internet from before Patreon and Kickstarter. Where the only monetization was you made a tangible product, and if it looked cool, I gave you money for that tangible product. Not some arrangement where I give you money for some nebulous future content that I may or...

Excellent article. Alot of this rings true to my experiences working with Silicon Valley Tech Bro Disease. I'm sorry for all the bad expriences and tangible harm the former and current employees suffered. That being said, I am not at all sorry to see a VC backed Web 3 MBA buzz word...

That's another good point. On a more general matter, who looks at WotC's behavior for checks notes all of 2023 and is like, "Yeah, I'ma fix to hitch my business to these fellas" ?

I really am curious what the terms are for third party publishers to get on DDB. Unless I'm wrong, none have ever said? I imagine it's a consequential amount of the sales.

Speaking of DCC RPG crowdfunding this looks interesting. I've definitely run multiple games where people want to play goblins and I just re-skin the thief and give them vomit powers. Looks like somebody had the same idea.

I think you'll get the PDF once the campaign ends. I think that's how they did it before if I remember right. And yeah, they don't change the rules really at all. They change the covers, maybe change some spellings and what-not. About the most reliable thing they change around between...

Those are all licensed directly through Goodman, they got that DCC logo on them.

Big DCC guys myself too, and yeah, very dissapointing. Building a game off of the OGL and then marking everything under the sun as product identity is like rescuing a dog from the pound just to turn around and breed it in a puppy mill. Kinda misses the whole point of the exercise.

Yeah, my main complaint with the rules too.

So, I finally heard back from Monte Cook Games. There you go. They think the OGL was meant for that behavior and it's totally normal. Even though I can only think of like two or three publishers that use the OGL this way. Nothing to see here, move along.

Having Cthulhu adventures in imperial Rome seems like a such niche thing to have two games for. Have we reached peak Cthulhu saturation? Probably not until we see the 2D20 version of the Cthulhu Jane Austin simulator.

Speaking as a dude who's been playing DCC RPG since launch I find it great that they are reprinting these titles with added stuff. But, speaking as somebody who's been playing since launch and backed the original campaigns for Purple Planet and the original Grimtooth collection it is a little...

I doubt that would happen. I mean, if that were true,there would be hundreds of OSR subforums, but there aren't. If the new MCDM is not broadly compatible with 5e (which it may not be) then it would be its own thing anyway.

I would be really, really shocked if they made any movies past Messiah. They get weird beyond that book, like way more weird than I think WB would be willing to gamble 300 million bucks on.

Right, but look at it this way. Line gotta go up. It isn't enough to make some money. You must exponentially grow forever. What's taking food off of a family's table compared to that?

I'm not sure. Let's circle back and let's schedule a time to meet on that.

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I like PF2's approach to this. Every few levels you get to choose from little bonuses or feats that in addition to making your dwarf dwarfier as they level, your dwarf can also be a dwarfier dwarf in a completely different way than another dwarf at the same table.

Yep, unfortunately. Exactly. You'd need to put out a book containing their "Product Identity" mechanics and then hope they do something about it to give you any "damages" to grant standing. Part of the reason it would never happen. Also true. Most people never read the OGL statements and other...