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Actually I'd think there's more incentive for the folks with smaller audiences to interrupt their normal release schedule to get theirs out first because the audience growth they might see is larger than the growth the big guys will potentially get. Also there are usually fewer people between...

That's how it works in corporate America tho - Kyle's the head of the team that this is a problem for. That makes it his problem and he's the one who has to fix it regardless of whether he's the one who created it or not. I feel for the guy and it probably shouldn't be his job, but if he wants...

The 4e SRD wasn't a real SRD though. The GSL SRD was basically a list of terms and rules on how to cite page numbers from the core D&D 4e books. They'd have to put actual work into sanitizing the 4e PHB, DMG, MM and to turn it into a real SRD, whereas the 3.5 SRD is a real SRD that just needs a...

Wait - another new version of Curse of Strahd is coming? Didn't they just issue a "revamped" version of it? Or maybe this means that the "revamped" version that IIRC is only in a boxed set is going to become the in print version? Which is something I've expected them to do once they needed to...

I'm Gen X so I can't relate to this. I've never been generationally important and frankly the idea of being so is weird and I don't like it. :)

Well the Star Wars game is actually licensed through Asmodee/Fantasy Flight/Edge rather than being in house. The Marvel game is being published by Marvel itself, so it's an actual-factual tabletop RPG being published by Disney. I hadn't heard of Quests of Yore but now that I look at it, it...

Do you mean the new Marvel RPG that isn't out yet, or do they have another one that I'm forgetting?

Part of it is that Hasbro is just better at the licensed IP game than Mattel is. Mattel licenses other people's products to make toys and games but really only licenses out their own properties for things that they don't make themselves (i.e. not toys and games). Hasbro, meanwhile, has been...

Just because it's obvious to some of us doesn't mean that high level execs will see it. Not only are they not experts in that particular field they also are generally getting a mix of bad and good data about it and have to figure out which is which without being an expert. It's like how it was...

Well this is interesting. It's definitely Monopoly(TM)-adjacent. Go around the board, collecting adventures. But it sounds like instead of buying them you have to randomly defeat them to acquire them. There's definitely money tho - in the form of gold coins. Hm. I'm not exactly sure how I feel...

Yeah, I think Bundle of Holding can move fast enough that some of the bundles that popped up over there were rushed a bit in the wake of the OGL fallout, but Humble Bundle is a bigger operation and RPGs are just a tiny sliver of what they offer - and from what I've heard from the book publishing...

Money. If you're thinking "boy this seems like a terrible way to make money" you're right. But nobody has ever accused him of being smart. (I personally think that his original intent was to get Wizards to pay him for the trademarks that he filed for by making himself such a pain that they'd...

Related to this though is that if you are asking people to radically switch playstyles, it can be a hurdle to getting them to try new games. Like if you have a group that normally plays combat-heavy D&D games and you try to get them to play an investigative Trail of Cthulhu or Timewatch Gumshoe...

At various times Disney merging with Apple and Disney buying Hasbro have been suggested by analysts. Honestly if Disney decided to by Hasbro it wouldn't be for D&D. It would be for Hasbro and the toy company part of their operation. I wouldn't be surprised if Disney just mostly left the rest...

If you want one that does the opposite, my wife would gladly sell a few of her d20s. We played a game last night and I swear she only rolled higher than a 10 once in the entire session. At one point I had to look at her dice to make sure she hadn't grabbed one of those 20-sided d10s by mistake.

Remember that 5e was the edition where they were trying really hard to be all things to all people just to keep the game in print. It doesn't surprise me at all that they might have decided that 20 levels was important to have because that's what 3e had, even if the designer part of their...

Thinking they'll try to do something dumb is different than thinking they'll succeed at it. Do I think they'll try to use video game monetiziation techniques to get money from players through their VTT? Probably - they're video game people and if your only tool is a hammer every way of making...

Separately by print run - white and black American covers for all of the ones that I got when I was a kid, green covered printings grouped together where I have them, and then the modern reprintings together in whatever order makes sense aesthetically for the shelf. Since that last grouping is...

That suggests to me that the person who pushed the idea was on shaky ground to begin with with their higher-ups. Or possibly that the amount of blow up they got was so unexpected that it became obvious even to the person whose idea it was that they'd misjudged the whole market. I really do...

Ok, yeah, both of those fit my criteria of clickbait. ComicBook I blocked ages ago because there was a week where literally nothing that was showing up in my feed was anything but headlines looking to generate hateclicks so I blocked them. The only reason I don't have Screen Rant blocked is...