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They may not remember, but their understanding of 5e is definitely helped by the wealth of Greyhawk and FR material from that era, not to mention the recent and upcoming revivals of Spelljammer and Dragonlance. All of this is just, like, my opinion, man.

For TSR to have been successful, it must not have produced any of the campaign settings we loved them for beyond a single flagship line. For TSR to have been successful, it must not have supported D&D and AD&D in parallel, with vastly different tone and scope between the two variants. The...

TSR had to die so that D&D could live. If TSR was a better run company, particularly if it didn’t create all those unprofitable campaign settings, D&D would not be even remotely as loved and popular as it is today. Someone had to go out of business showing the world that D&D was truly...

I’ve seen off the shelf (open source) e-commerce platforms store credit card numbers, albeit in an encrypted state. We implemented changes to one so that we could use it without storing those numbers for PCI reasons. It’s possible his software stores these numbers as encrypted values, and he...

A lot of their aliens—nordics, greys, etc—are preexisting lore among the UFO and new age community. The author of that playtest document didn’t think of this “Nordic” race on his own. It’s kind of sad that instead of doing any creative world building, they seem to have just absorbed existing lore.

I mean no malice toward tattoo artists, weapons designers, politicians or spiritualists, law enforcement or anyone else, but this dude is a current tattoo artists, former federal law enforcement officer, former weapons designer, former statewide political candidate, who owns an oxygen bar and a...

I still have issues with Riggs’ style in the book, but he picked a really good story. If he follows through with his next book, which he suggests in the afterword will be about the creation of 3e, d20 and the OGL, I’ll be excited to see if his own skill as a writer can rise to the level of his...

I thought I read in one of the complaints that he believed that when WotC put Star Frontiers for sale on DMs guild, they had somehow inadvertently confirmed that TSR (which in his mind is the same company he owns) was the actual owner of Star Frontiers, and the he/TSR is therefor actively...

I think using the payment processor for multiple businesses is ok, but he's crossing state lines if he uses that processor in North Carolina and Wisconsin. I'm pretty sure that's tricky unless he's very carefully accounting revenue for the two businesses so they can be taxed by the appropriate...

They don't own "TSR", I think they own the trademark rights to a specific logo.

The FTC, and federal law, don't enforce PCI compliance. Yes, the credit card company will require merchants to be compliant to do business. As far as I'm aware there's no specific regulatory punishment in being non-compliant, other than the inherent vulnerability of not being compliant, and...

He’s not required to be PCI compliant. If he IS PCI compliant, he would have less liability in the event of a data breach, but there’s no law saying they have to comply.

Dragonlance has a more valuable name than Maztica, so it's worth the effort to rehab. They can devote a whole book to providing a comprehensive view of Dragonlance so that you don't feel the need to refer back to old material. Maztica, if it were included in Radiant Citadel, would have just...

Yeah, I have to wonder whether Maztica, if rebuilt from the ground up with an eye toward sensitivity, would still be somehow bad just because it kept the name. But, it could just be that they don't have time to clean up or rehab the Maztica setting, and they don't want new players to read a...

My preference is that they follow up Spelljammer with another 64 page book. I'll put my Light of Xaryxis out and let it live with other adventure anthologies, and let me slot this new book into the slipcase where it should have been in the first place.

The 5e Spelljammer book isn't bad, it's just incomplete. We'll surely get many hours enjoyment from it as it is, but there's a lot of stuff that really needed to be included but just wasn't. I bought it because money is no object. But for someone less fortunate than me who has to consider...

Some of the adventure anthologies are mini-campaign settings, and include new mechanics and stuff. I buy most of them for that reason.

Spelljammer has had to do a lot of things too. But Hasbro just chose to not put those in the book. I wouldn't trust them to include all of those highly necessary things in a new planescape either.

But the author has a clear voice. He refers to himself in the first person. I haven't seen much journalism that's so personal. I don't know what this. It's not terrible. it's not great. I'm gonna finish it. I care about the topic. But how it's executed is really making it hard on me...

Most of his prose is ok. From reading it, i get the sense it's a stack of essays he worked on one at a time. The seams between his writing sessions are obvious. Maybe we should blame his editor, and not the author, as there seems to be no work done to make this into a single cohesive...