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agree on what, which style you prefer? Why would you. On which one gives the player more freedom / input / control? There seems to be a clear answer

I am sure there were many people surprised by it, there probably are people who never even heard of it too. Snarf was not talking about all 7B people on the planet, not even about everyone at TSR, but about the ‘management team’. At least that is how I understand it

technically that could be high stakes, the characters just do not know it yet ;) Can you define high stakes? A while ago you had the character haggling with a merchant about an angel’s feather or looking for a ship in the harbor. I consider both of these relatively low stakes and did expect you...

I understand the ‘attempt to overcome’ as a die roll should have been used to determine this, but the DM just let it succeed because it was in the DM’s interest that it does, because it succeeding keeps the players on the rails. If there was no challenge then it succeeding is not railroading...

Gary was helping with the bankrupting himself quite a bit too, but yes, he came back and got some hardcovers out to avoid the impending demise of TSR

ok, I’ll bite… so it looks like Thoth tries to create an undead, so they are kinda like Frankenstein, at least that is my take-away from the scenario you describe. So I can see how your example scenario might work out for this, but you also say that this is not how it would work in BW. I assume...

no idea, Cynthia Williams in 2022 said something about having hired 350 people (not all for Sigil but the theory back then was that many were), which to me would mean employees, not contractors. In any case, if you reduce staff from 30 to 3, you are not going to keep around many more...

I’d say keeping a company afloat another 5 years or so is a success this can be true without 2e being a failure too. According to your logic all editions except for 5e should be a failure because they all tanked, some sooner, some later - and the jury on 5e is still out from that perspective

I6, which I assume is what ‘Ravenloft’ in that post referred to, the 5e version is Curse of Strahd

I don’t know, I don’t really see D&D advertising anywhere, the only thing I saw was for the movie specifically

they kept 3 out of 30 I believe, not sure why the numbers were that low compared to their earlier claim of 200+ developers. I doubt there are still 170+ people working on it however, I assume the three ‘survivors’ is more likely it

they did not keep three people around for no reason

that is a typo, it was meant to be an example for being partial, not impartial

the random NPC did refuse it because they thought theirs and their families eternal damnation was at stake, not because they might get roofied

yeah, give money over take drink, sure. As I said, if the guy kills you otherwise anyway, I am not so sure you do have much to lose by taking the drink though. Might as well give that a shot, maybe he is just crazy enough that it actually is just some alcohol and he just was very insistent...

it probably is in that my tastes and preferences matter a lot in that regard. I am not blaming WotC for not releasing stuff I am interested in, all I am saying is that the announced products are not interesting to me. Had they announced others, those others could have been of interest to me. I...

my point is more than I am not opposed to buying D&D on principle, as @TheSword suggested. I would buy them if they interested me, this batch simply does not. By no means am I saying that it therefore cannot be of interest to anyone else or that they are obligated to create something I am...

what if they asked for your money? Pretty sure I would take the drink, I do not have much to lose in the situation by taking it anyway…

keep telling yourself that, the only ones that I had initially ruled out were the dragon adventures and Eberron books, and I was interested in the starter set. The FR books were more wait and see, which I would not call excitement. I regularly buy D&D books that interest me, the last ones were...

yes, but the premise was that the decision was not impartial to begin with (“If a GM is railroading and the players make an attempt to overcome an obstacle that follows the rails and the GM decides that it automatically succeeds, is that not still a railroad?”)