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If that turns out to be true, and I certainly think it could be, what's ultimately going to change? Even at the very height of the boom, outside of a handful of super huge Kickstarters, the old adage of "The best way to make hundreds of Dollars in the RPG business is to start with thousands "...

Hey now, after they changed those names all those angry moms were just fine with D&D, right?

Oh yeah? Bub, I'm wearing leather pants, resolving all conflicts with tic-tac-toe and listening to KMFDM right now, and I'm super cool.

From a managing public pushback perspective, yes. But then they would have had to make 5.5 radically different so that you couldn't reverse-engineer third party content for it under the still valid OGL that 5.0 was/is under. They also didn't want to kill their "evergreen" golden goose.

How dare you peons try and stop me from enshittifying the thing you love. Don't you understand that I gotta have da money. I needa da money.

I don't see much to disagree with here. I'll say on a purely anecdotal level I have found it easier to drum up support to play games that aren't 5E for the last little bit now, which is nice. So whatever that means more broadly I don't know. But hey, I want to play a whole bunch of games so...

This reads to me like Mike is sort of going to bat that the idea of a revised OGL wasn't all bad. Which, especially as a now independent game designer, strikes me as strange for the many, many reasons we discussed at the time. But yeah, while I disagree with the idea that I can stab a giant...

I'm preparing to run a 4E home game and creating tactically interesting and balanced encounters for every fight from scratch just seems like too much work with everything else I have to do so I just decided to run Scales of War and I'll just add some notes to the stat blocks (because I think...

The 5E conversions leave me cold. But that's true of all of Goodman's 5e content. I always thought they could carve out a niche in 5e content by infusing some of that Appendix weirdness into it, not as much as in DCC, but still. But no, total normcore stuff. That's why this sort of appeals...

Yep, forget about Hold Person working on a CR 1/2 goblin. You're living in dreamland now.

Agreed this would be much better. Give me a little blurb telling me some common humanoid abilities to overlay right there in the section. This is like, when they said to just use some generic vampire stat block for Strahd. Like dude, I'm paying you to do the work for me.

Pictured, our new AI moderator. Weirdly, very popular in Germany.

Right, like, if we're training it off of our posts, that's not good. Like, I post here, and all my posts are objectively garbage. Before we'll know it it's going to start red texting any thread not about watching Knightrider in their underpants or whatever.

Oh, lord no

Well, change both their names and post them in this thread.

You know, I don't think it's related to the game in particular or my own ability to make one. Hell, I've made characters in really crunchy simulationist games like Dragonquest and HERO etc. But I think the main issue is, if anyone is even passably familiar with 4E and they only know a couple of...

Absolutely, but I mean, would you trust me to hand you a flash drive and go "Trust me, bro". My friends know me better than that.

Yeah, I know it's still around if you look hard enough. It's just kinda sketch to sell people on, just more friction, you know?