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We have the benefit of foresight hindsight, and the bias of nostalgia. I think in 1997, for $25 milion, the TSR acquisition was probably, on paper, a very bad idea (or at best a high-risk investment), and the only reason it happened was because Adkison had an emotional attachment to the idea of...

If WotC wants to get into the dev game, they need to let go of that. Where I work, we're realizing that no matter where your business is located, you're in competition with dev hiring managers all over the world for the same candidates. Nobody's gonna take a job for your company and move to...

I still say it's a new format for those settings, not a new format entirely. A Divine Right campaign book would be a new format for that setting, since it was previously only published as a board game, for example.

Paradox is publicly traded and has a market cap of $2 Billion right now. I don't think Hasbro wants to spend that kind of money.

According to wikipedia, "In large part due to the need to refund Random House, TSR entered 1997 over $30 million in debt." That's like $53 million in today money. So in today money, TSR was "worth" $100 million dollars (not counting its debt). Keep in mind that TSR was probably the weakest...

I've worked for companies in not dissimilar situations. Essential people are offered big bonuses with a "you have to stay with the company for at least X months to get the other half of this money". People that don't want to stick around probably look into moving ASAP, since they just got half...

TSR had huge debts that were factored into that sale price, which had to be payed off before any publishing could resume.

Agree. Talented developers will produce crap if the product owner tells them they have to work on crap. In a corporate setting, you can blame bugs on Dev and QA, but ideas, good or bad, are always placed in the work queue by the product owner.

This settles an older argument about whether it would be a waste of time and money for Fandom to work so hard on their Cortex Prime VTT when they already have D&D Beyond. Now they have both (sort of): they can develop their own tools, and they sell D&D Beyond off to Hasbro for probably a...

I just think in general, if your privacy is threatened by a piece of property on the person of another individual, you should just turn around and walk away, not start taking the right to privacy into your own hands. The normalized stigma that follows early adopters of these technologies will...

I can't wait until they miniaturise this technology into contact lenses so people can find ways to morally justify insane people clawing strangers' eyes out to protect their privacy. People worried about privacy should be more concerned with the phone in their own pocket, than the camera that's...

Every time someone talks about AR glasses, I remember living in NYC during the Google Glass beta, and all the stories of testers being assaulted in public by people paranoid that the high tech glasses were invading their privacy (but everyone's cellphone wasn't).

I mean it kind of is the first Cortex Prime book, aside from the core rulebook. Some of the pre-prime Cortex Plus books satisfy most of those requirements, with Firefly possibly satisfying all of them.

I wish they had done He-man first.

"I feel like" usually isn't a phrase people use when trying to state objective facts.

One time at an LGS, an obvious Whovian asked me how much I liked the new Dr Who season at the time. I said "The impossible Astronaut season was amazing, and I feel like every season since, I've wanted it to be that good again, and it just hasn't been and probably never will be." He looked at...

WW and Sword and Sorcery did a collaboration on the 3rd Ed and 3.5e versions of Ravenloft. The look of those books is at least pretty grim.

It WOULD be a classic setting, and if it's a book, it would represent a new format for that setting. I'm still convinced that the "format we haven't seen before" means a format that we haven't seen for that setting yet, not a wholly new format that they've never published anything in.

OOOOOooooh, right. Ravenloft is dark. Yes. I am a well adjusted person. I did not think Ravenloft was an unrealistically idyllic setting, and totally realized it was grim and dark to normal people like me that are normal. Serious face edit: some of us stepped away from D&D for a bit in the...

I wouldn't mind if it was. I liked how Ghosts of Saltmarsh was half mini-setting, half anthology, and all tying back to a beloved location from the AD&D era. If they had done this exact same book, but set in Sigil, i would have gladly accepted it as a Planescape offering. Just wasn't sure how...