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I'd end levels at 10. Hardly any players go higher than level 10 and it seems silly to balance leveling and abilities with combinations that are unlikely to happen once you pass level 10.

Sure, but once there's a general consensus on what dead means then it should aid conversation. There's always going to be someone who doesn't buy into the consensus and wants to define it their way, but that's true for many things.

If they can bring back Dire Wolves then we'll always have our Dire Bare.

Things are so much different now because of how we consume our media these days. I grew up on a steady diet of reruns including Gilligan's Island, The Addams Family, The Munsters, I Dream of Jeannie, The Beverly Hillbillies, etc., etc. These programs were rerun during daytime hours where a lot...

Every decade has shows like that though. The Middle is an American sitcom that ran from 2009-2018 and it wasn't bad, but in 20 years it's going to be one of those, "I never heard of it!" shows. During much of its run, it averaged about 5 million viewers per episode, and towards the end it...

Short term problems can lead to long term ruination. Let's say it takes 3-5 years to bring back those printing capabilities to the United States. How do I stay in business during that period of time? And 3-5 years is generous given that many people might not want to invest in big projects...

I don't want to get caught up in discussing the most applicable similes. If a dead game only refers to one that isn't played, then what a useless term it is. If two people are playing Cyborg Commando somewhere in New Zealand, then the game isn't dead. In effect, there's no such thing as a...

I think of it like a "dead" language. There are no native speakers of Latin, but there are still people speaking it. It's still a dead language.

I read that as Beach Gnome.

For me, I typically thought of an RPG as being dead when it was no longer in print. But what does it mean to be out of print in the age of PDFs? I have easier access to AD&D's Oriental Adventures today than I did in 1994. Now I think of an RPG as dead when no new books are being published for...

I used to play a lot of World of Warcraft and my main character was a Warrior/Engineer. This is when he built the engineer mount. I played some Star Wars: The Old Republic as well. If you haven't played, the game allowed you to have four body types for characters allowing you to choose...

When I watched Alien: Romulus that was the thought running through my head about pretty much the entire cast. The oldest principle actor was the guy who played Andy the Android (sorry, synthetic person), and he was 30. Most of the rest of the cast were closer to 20 than they were to 30. The...

This is the tough part. I honestly don't know what I could do to make more money as I don't really understand why D&D is so successful in recent years. Was it the 2014 rules? Was it COVID? Was it Stranger Things and other media? If I get to reshape it. I'd get rid of Bonus Actions. I'd...

For video games, there are certain milestones some games reach that really wow me. Doom, Doom 2, Duke Nuke'em 3-D, and Half-Life were all games that wowed me when they were released. I remember in Half-Life I shot at a soldier and he ducked behind some cover and it absolutely wowed me. From...

Here's the rub. If something weird or innovative becomes popular then it just becomes the norm. D&D was a weird and innovative game way back in 1974. Deadlands, a mash up of old west tropes with wizards, mad scientists, and samurai was pretty weird in 1996. It was even called The Weird West...

Ditto. Except I was in elementary school. There's nothing quite so cute as as bunch of seven year old boys throwing plastic frisbees at one another's faces as hard as we could. I also haven't seen any Tron movies since the original. The soundtrack pops up on my YouTube occasionally and it...

I knew you'd say that. Why did you punch my inner child right in the face? I'm never going to let myself be vulnerable with you ever again!