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I've said it elsewhere, but I have a strong suspicion that everything we saw from the outside was actually just the visible part of the iceberg that was a whole bunch of internal politics going on inside of Wizards/Hasbro. I suspect that there were people making exactly the argument that OGL 1.1...

Can you point to any sites? I thought that had died down right after the initial trailer came out. I'm not even seeing the clickbaity headlines. But also I have a whole lot of sites blocked on Google News because they're just content mills grinding out clickbait headlines and cranked out text...

Yup. They already count on making money on their campaign offerings by having only a fraction of the playing base buying them. High level games would be a fraction of a fraction. They could have some high level adventures in their anthologies like this one, but in all honesty it's hard to write...

I want to try to answer this while keeping in mind their specific definition of "under-monetized". That term was used in terms of who is buying products and the observation was that most of their sales were to DMs and non-DM players didn't buy much in large numbers. So it's undermonetized in...

I think the main one is the loss of immediate money coming in from third party licensors. Even though they dropped that quickly, that part had the stink of "we're leaving money on the table, why aren't we getting a cut of these million dollar kickstarters" about it. I think they were hoping to...

I agree with you that to me quality hasn't declined. The entire 5e publication schedule has been IMO bumpy in terms of quality, as in there are some things that are pretty good but not great, and others that aren't as good but not bad. But there's no trend - it's up and down from product to...

The thing is I probably only know it because I've lived through most of it. I guess that's an advantage of being old? 🤷‍♂️

I do think that the VTT will end up being more restrictive, such that AL style play is basically enforced in areas where they need to pick some way to implement things. Not for any real money-making purposes or because they have some master plan to change the game, but because software...

In published D&D my first real published setting love was Mystara, which built on Dave Arneson's Blackmoor background and had a crashed starship from the "Federation" where the crew had used their advanced technology to dominate the locals. So I've embraced science-fantasy in D&D pretty much...

I'm actually sad if the person who left the review really did buy it. It's $20 that could go to something that might actually be a good product written by someone who isn't actively terrible.

This. The amount of work I have to put in to use a 2d battle map online is exhausting enough. It's not like using a whiteboard at home where I can just draw on it quickly - it's time consuming and distracting to use software to do anything and for me it kills spontaneity. Fortunately my players...

I think people are expecting Wizards to completely abandon the tabletop and focus only on the virtual tabletop. To stop publishing books and only publish rules electronically. That there won't be any new hardcovers with "Dungeons and Dragons" blazoned on the cover but you can only get your D&D...

I've done a few of those in the past. I prefer a Patreon personally, because I'd rather support them at a smaller dollar amount but over the longer term. If those are the examples of "late" kickstarters you've backed I'm impressed by your luck :) I have had a couple that stretched on for years...

That can't possibly be the case. Why I swear it was just a few years ago I was grumbling about the fact that there was really no need for a 4th edition. /me checks the publication date of 4e GURPS Huh. 2004. Welp, I'm going to find an ice floe to put myself on and float off into the ocean...

Some folks were arguing that it could be a stealth movie tie-in. People are surprised that Wizards doesn't appear to be doing any movie tie-ins at all on the gaming side of things and so there's some reaching to find something. Though making a "stealth" movie-tie in would, to me, defeat the...

Pay to win is a nonstarter. In an RPG sense you'd first have to define what "winning" means. Absent Wizards trying to resurrect the old tournament model of play I don't see how it even works. If it's just about getting better bits and bobs for your character we already have "pay to win" in the...

I like both of these and go one further - experiment with short campaigns. Players who only know D&D think of new games as long term commitments because of the way D&D's leveling system encourages thinking about campaigns over a long term. Letting players know up front that you expect a series...

It's a fun show - I was just talking to my kid about how we'd adapt it. Probably a Gumshoe game or Monster of the Week rather than D&D was where we've settled so far. Jupiter Ascending actually has the makings of a great campy film moderately ruined by having creators who can't edit their own...

There was a licensed Fudge adaptation at one point. Grey Ghost IIRC Actually from a quick google it looks like it's still around: Deryni Adventure Game - Grey Ghost Games | DriveThruRPG.com (Someone on Amazon is charging $150. The $20 PDF on DTRPG is much more reasonable...)

I'll put a pitch out there for the Happiest Apocalypse on Earth. It's not 5e - it's PbtA - but it's set in an evil parody of Disneyworld so the adventure ideas in the back might be good starting points depending on your plans...