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It was a very divisive product and the 4e fans were often brutal about telling folks to stop complaining and leave D&D back in the day. I stopped using ENWorld, in part, because of all the toxicity around it. I also had kids and it became less important. I get the anger but I do not think...

This is the primary reason I hated 4e. It took the d20 gameplay style elements I disliked and amped them through the roof. It decided that a specific style of play was valid and ignored the rest. It was one of the first “we want a different audience that we think will be larger” attempts. It...

This seems to be the current culture. The younger crowd discovers something and thinks they invented the concept. It is an outgrowth of a culture that is becoming more self-centered. Personally, I detest 4e but not all of it. I think a few rules there were cool but mostly the ones they took...

These are the questions I have. I do not really care. It just makes little sense even from their states goals. It would have been easier to adopt the 3e style of planar version prime versions. Fey goblins come from the Feywild while normal goblins come from the prime material.

Or EGG just launched Sidekick and needed to drum up press so they sent C&D letters because even bad press is still press. :P They were double-charging folks for Sidekick. I will try to give them the benefit of the doubt.

Cool. Did not know that they did these. Did they do one for Hurricane Helene?

They are the ones deciding to change backward compatibility after making a lot of promises there. There was no reason to make the change from humanoid to aberration except to justify the Orc and try to provide more reasons for them to be “monsters.” I get it and this is not my main reason for...

I have Shadow. I am not very interested in OSE. I’d just got back to 2e if I wanted Old School. Otherwise, nothing wrong with staying with 5.0.

This is the exact reason but it will not fly with folks who make the argument that X are people too. The same moral issues will continue to apply to any sentient group as a whole. It is a no win scenario.

Recurring makes them more money and is stable. What I am finding is that they start off with a great deal to get your sub and loyalty and then they enshitify the service or never improve it. Look at Amazon Prime. You no longer get guaranteed 2 day shipping, you pay more for no ads, the...

I do not use that much, so yes. Buying the shows I actually watch is cheaper.

Nope. 2014 is looking better every day.

I went through everything: streaming, iPhone payment plans, m365, adobe, music, kindle, DDB, network security, VPN, vehicle apps, game pass, ea play…. It was frightening how many I had that I just did not realize the cumulative cost. It may not be the same for everyone but my company may be...

I recently sat down and ran my annual spending subs ended up accounting for 20% of my annual net income. You do not own anything with subs and when I analyzed my usage per cost, it was scary how much I was over charging myself. I could have purchased most of the things from the subs at a...

It is a hidden expense for many. Software, streaming, game passes, kindle services, phones…. It is draining wealth at an alarming rate. Other costs are killing too but I am alarmed by how many items have moved to buy one time to subs.

That may be self-selection. I was really disappointed recently when I thought folks may return to CM but several took one look and made the judgement call that they do not want to associate with folks that they used to hangout and game with even if they did not like their opinions in other...

Maybe....the subscriptions are quickly destroying people's budgets. I was one of the first to advocate monthly subs to ENW and CM but the effect of subs has not been....good.

DDB-first design. They want to make it easier with online tools.

Oh, the Bastion mechanics are not great but are a good start for me. I would have to make edits to them to allow them in game.

Hmm...I had not caught the online angle and that may play a part.