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they are licensing a product, the money for that goes somewhere, that somewhere is either JG, or, with JG's agreement their KS backers. Out of the two options, refunding the backers is clearly the better one

I assume they do it for their own rather than the vanilla ones, but who knows... how large is that conversion packet, any idea?

Druids fell into the preserver niche for me, and clerics never really bothered me, maybe because they existed in other settings as well whereas psionics was something I only encountered in Dark Sun and maybe as a result it did feel like they were specifically added so we could have our cake and...

never liked psionics in Dark Sun, so you have a light and a dark side of ‘the force’ in the preserver and defiler, and then you decide that it is for fools, because psionics are just magic without the downsides of either…

ok, so I bind and gag the wizard, but the psion gets their throat cut when they get captured, works for me ;)

I think I read somewhere that around 50% of those following a project end up backing it yep, it’s more a ‘keep me in the loop’ There is little correlation between what I back and what I follow

can you to the point of performing Telekinesis? otherwise I am not sure your real-world experience counts ;)

we will first have to agree that it is a bad rule, so far it is mostly about personal taste

what about third parties observing the caster? I want it as clear to them as to the target. It also doesn’t address the restraint part…

I can ignore the material spell components, but just ‘thinking’ with no gestures is a ‘no’ from me. It should be obvious who is ‘casting the spell’ and being restrained should have the same preventative effect as for spellcasters

being a successful artist is very different from running a successful company. In the former case you are not really employing your friends & family as employees of the company (i.e. expect them to generate enough money to 'pay for themselves'), you give them handouts because you expect the good...

well, I certainly would be curious about a 5e Dark Sun book, so let's hope you called it correctly ;)

huh, did not realize they changed it, stopped caring about UAs halfway through the 2024 ones…

the lesson is give 1s and 5s only, everything else leaves too much up for interpretation… the ‘nuance’ has to come from the fact that you are not the only one filling out the survey

I don’t know, to me that sounds like you overestimate Gygax or underestimate yourself, imo he did pretty poorly, below average (at running a business)

you can get psionics without having to also get Dark Sun. Is there anything in the UA that explicitly ties it to DS / an upcoming DS product?

feels pretty premature for calling it...

I have no idea how much work they did, it’s not like the books / pdfs are available right after the KS, so I would expect much of the work is still ahead of them and the three years were mostly spent on the content of other KS. Yes, GG will have to eat some costs if they cancel the KS, that is...

My understanding is that Goodman always intended to refund the backers but forgot to mention that in the initial announcement. JG is not in the loop here, so they cannot change their mind, the money goes to a third party arbiter

it’s not meant as a comparison but as an example to illustrate the point