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Fair question. I'm combining size and distance. Modiphius, Free League, and Cubical 7 are bigger outfits that seem to be able to afford to go GenCon and attend other cons on both sides of the pond to network and meet the press in person. For the few small firms I've worked with, they would...

The only time I have discovered any news about Edge products is when I personally visit their website. More than the usually challenges of having all those games shunted off to a smaller overseas studio, the loss of networking ties and media connections probably did more damage. When I was...

Dennis Detwiller of DG fame had a long career in video games and said the industry was more built to spin up studios and then sell them while the deep pocket people in the industry acting like they were embarrassed they had to make their fortunes from those those video gamey things. (Maybe they...

"Selling for parts" was exactly what I meant by sacrificial lamb. At the very least, it seems keeping the other two companies alive is the priority here. Ah. That now makes more sense. Thanks for the insight.

But how can I call myself a genius for finding a loophole in a system that already works in my favor? I might have to actually innovate or treat a business like a ... business instead of chop shop. There was an idea floated around for a while about how we could attract the young bright minds...

I wasn't holding my breath. I had gotten the impression that putting all the ttrpgs into one company was a move to put the products with thin profit margins into one bucket to die a slow death. I'm surprised Edge is still around. Purely speculating if they saddled Asmodee with so much of the...

It states it is a convention one-shot in the first sentence of the article. Hopefully most GM will make changes before using in at the home table and most players at a convention will understand the set up is a bit in media res. Though I did once run a convention one shot at a convention and...

It also illustrates how humans who keep pushing AI think that something that's "close enough" be it trending vs factual, super fast predictive text v writing and image scraping/mashing vs art is equal to "good enough." I assume it's PR spin until it is less wrong all the time.

I've been having chats with other gamers and we are starting to suspect that the real profit is in the gaming accessories as the books were never had a huge profit margin and that's shrunk even smaller now thanks to the paper shortage and distributors making an even worse mess of things.

I agree. Pre-pandemic, I was used to giving a small store an order for a product and getting it in my hands by next week . Now I hang around a bigger store and everything takes at least two weeks now. And in a hobby where impulse buy is king, that can be a killer. I backed the Car War...

There are almost entire states of such places in the USA. Perfect example is if you took Kansas and Oklahoma and cut them up vertically - especially if you made that dividing line just west of Wichita and OKC. Hell, you could probably keep that line going all the way north to the border.

Also priorities. I had to hold an intervention last month as a friend who makes more money than me borrowed (and promptly paid back) a $25 loan to cover shipping on a kickstarter. Makes me wonder how much more affordable some of these board games would be if they simply used cardboard tokens...

One might say that having a luxury market segment for our hobby is a good sign. I'm on the fence about that. For me, I have always said that our culture would never take ttrpgs seriously until there was money to be made, like golf, video games, and the NFL.

It's like saying buying an aftermarket fancy golf bag undermines your golf game. Beadle & Grimm is not owned by WotC but by Scream/Scooby-Doo/Five Nights at Fredies actor Matthew Lillard. All Beadle & Grimm did was make a complete set of "bling" as compared to the hodge-podge of stuff we would...

We may never know much she was involved in the faux pas this past couple of years, but if they were her decisions then I hope the next round of leadership will do better.

I'd hope it would also be a resource book as well, which is why I would get it. d6 is fine but I do collect generic systems all the time.

Just ask CMON. Their board games could be like $20 or more cheaper if they went with cardboard tokens instead of minis that also bloat up the packaging and shipping costs. Adding minis is like gamer catnip regardless of how logical it is to have them.

Just like the equipment list during character creation, I think the issue is the assumptions of a lot of GMs have that these lists are shopping catalogues. They don't (or don't want to) realize both equipment and magic items can be curated to deliver a more unique setting.

And as far as d6 goes, there is also the Pip System.

For the time, I felt it the interior art was a bit gory and one picture has a girl in pretty much a dental floss bikini. I'm not prudish, but I was running a drop in/drop out rpg table at a game store so my game was more family friendly.