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That's true in some places - especially parts of China (but not all of China) - but can be ameliorated somewhat if you have good distribution because the reputable wholesalers/retailers won't want knock-off products. Of course, if you're producing some sort of generic item then distribution...

Great collection, Javier! :)

You don't. "Global brand experience" and similar phrases from the lexicon of corporate wank-speak are not aimed at the consumer. The consumer is largely irrelevant. Wank-speak is aimed at wank-speakers: the economy-destroying 3-year olds who can cause share prices to move up.

This is all so true. Place names - or any names for that matter, including those of the PCs - can make or break the immersion factor. It's much more efficient to contract that out, so to speak, to a campaign setting. (Yes, I am making a case for outsourcing. :) )

I am a fan of Lost Mine of Phandelver but I am just about to finish a Neverwinter-based campaign so I cannot imagine going back there for a while. If I did, it would definitely be a part of my plans. I love that adventure. :) I'm stealing bits of Princes of the Apocalypse for an upcoming...

I like published settings, principally FR, but I also have campaigns I want to run in Dark Sun, Eberron, and Midnight. I like the idea of homebrew but I simply am map-tarded. I don't want the hassle of creating maps for my games. I do collect various world maps that I find online and save them...

I don't think this will lead to more games being designed: besides lowering costs (see below), I think this is about paring back to a core team that can focus on the IP and converting the IP into things that generate windfall gains. They will still have the games for bread-and-butter regular...

Now that is a choice many of us would be happy to have! :)

Unfortunately, I also got the pirate ship one which has cannons. Unfortunately, my players don't like pretending they're not there so I just used Skeleton Key Games ship tiles instead. Such a waste....

How do you make a small fortune in RPGs? Start with a large fortune. Unfortunately, there is no *real* money in this hobby at least insofar as the TTRPGs are concerned. It's a niche hobby that last had mainstream success 30-odd years ago before computer gaming came into its own. What is...

While I detest corporate wank-speak, specialisation does seem to bring benefits just as mergers and acquisitions typically destroy value. In any business I have owned or run, I prefer that manufacturing be handled by manufacturing specialists. It's not just simply about controlling costs: it's...

Argentina? If that's Third World then I must be living in the Thirtieth World.... ;)

Well, that's a bugger: it is out-of-print. I can get the PDFs printed on to tarpaulin-material here for a few dollars; I wonder what options you might have at print shops in the non-Third World?

YW. It's my favourite of the maps. That battle where I used it as tar pits was one of my favourite D&D combats of all time. It will always hold good memories. :)

What's even more annoying about that was that this wasn't suddenly something that needed to happen because of 4E: the emphasis on minis and grids in 3.xE also made terrain important to interesting encounters. I know that at least one of the major names behind 4E wasn't actually running a 4E...

I hope I don't sound like a smart arse but it's the <Darklands map>. That's what it's actually called. I've linked to its product page.

This was very much my experience as well... and, ultimately, I just gave up. It was too much work for too little reward. Sure, not as bad a 3.xE but, compared to 4E, it was non-productive. If I go back to 5E I will just be using published stat blocks. I did all three things you mentioned over...

1. It has kept D&D alive as a tabletop RPG. (If it hadn't succeeded, I suspect D&D would be in mothballs for now. And that has been important for me as a 4E fan because it has keep the online 4E tools alive! :) ) 2. It has resulted in some pretty good adventures for my preferred world of FR (I'm...

The problem is almost always the players. Give them cheat sheets with their triggered powers clearly spelt out for them in TRIGGER/EFFECT format. If you have time, putting their character sheets in monster stat block format can really help teach them to use their characters effectively. Train...

I love the Darklands flip mat. I have used the big open cavern as a big open cavern as well as an area of tar pits in a canyon, a section of desert, and hilly badlands.