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Nobody is talking about the D&D franchise as a whole. Completely Irrelevant to this discussion. This is about One Film: Honor Among Thieves. The movies production budget debt had to be dealt with. On the Hasbro side; HaT Lost Money. IMO: If Hasbro didn't parse the $25m write down on HaT for...

The positive word of mouth was certainly a help. But Strong Streaming =/= Breaking even. Let alone turning a profit. I don't know about Paramount. But it is not mythology that it hurt Hasbro: https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/54787/wotc-digital-gaming-down-q2 Streaming helped, but not...

While the level of crunch based on seeing the character sheets/Cards, and the reddit thread, it seems about what I thought it would be crunch wise. But... I thought they would do it with a trimmed down d20/5e math core mechanic so that they could tie into existing d20 system familiarity...

How did I miss this wonderful thread? In no particular order of unpopularity: Fudging die rolls is a degenerate practice. Period. It's bad enough when cheating payers do it; GM's that indulge in this foul practice need to be called to account! Most "Professional" RPG designers have their...

In my opinion; 4e did not address the underlying complexity of the system, and SR6 is a dud because it continued that trend. It makes sense because SR as an IP has nothing to lose. In my opinion; The fondness for SR is almost exclusively for its setting at this point. But it is a well liked...

In Paramounts defense: That was out of their control. In my opinion; they could have still saved themselves truckloads of cash by going through the script with a fine toothed comb and cutting out needless expenditures...

There was nothing wrong with 2-3e SR that couldn't be fixed. Catalyst went in the wrong direction - they changed the success number for the die pools, but never addressed any of the underlying complexity of the system that was the main issue for players. I agree that there is a happy medium...

Goldstein and Daley were the Writer/Directors for the film. The film went into production based on the new draft of the script that they wrote. In my opinion; The movie didn't need to be as long, nor as expensive as the released film, if some fat and lots of unnecessary CGI was cut from the...

In my opinion - the movie was about 20 minutes too long. The writers were given too big of a budget. The Paladin character was not needed. The whole underdark sequence was not needed. The Barbarian/Halfling subplot didn't need to be there. They could also have saved a lot of cash by toning...

Good to know. I found 3E/PF1 a bit too much for me and mine. Obviously there is a market for that level of crunch though.

Having the rules - but not having played it; PF2 came across as a game that could get very fiddly on the PC side as you leveled up. Do you have a sense of what the difference would be playing with automation vs. over the table without? I know a guy that just bought a large flat screen tv...

I only mention Mario's VOD sales in highlighting your faulty comparison. My exact Quote: Where I did 100% err was in my next paragraph of questions, specifically this: The /Streaming was a mistake, as it allowed you to grab onto the addition of '/Streaming' as a way of avoiding my...

An apples and oranges reference at best. The rankings have no monetary context. You are taking the VOD revenue of a 1.3billion mega-hit, and trying to infer a correlation via rankings to a film with far less audience pull, that fell short around 100m in its box office run. Then supply some...

^THIS^ And yes, Mario and John Wick are dominating. Here is a site that does VOD rankings: https://flixpatrol.com/#tab-rent-or-buy How about we hold those touting these VOD & Streaming ranking numbers to the same standard Zardnaar was earlier in the thread when we were talking about box...

Anyone can play that game: Go back to May, when Mario and HaT first dropped on VOD, and compare their ranking then. And what does the ranking mean in actual sales numbers? (I'll circle back to this.) Also revenue is not the same as profit. Just like movie theatre revenue - The VOD service...

This is what is not factored in enough here when people say: "It will eventually make its money back." Now that we know what was spent on marketing we know that HaT is about 100m in the hole. That's 100m of debt that must be still be serviced. Vod/Streaming will not make up that gap anywhere...

No, I make an argument against Greed. Greed is a pernicious human failing that does not discriminate, and that history has shown to be pervasive in every economic system. This is true. Have their employee salaries, and freelancer pay risen 20% across the board in ten years? Anyone that...

Inflation is real. Wotc is not lying here. This is still nothing but a GREEDY Corporate Cash Grab. "But dude; you just said that Wotc claiming inflation causing cost to rise is real? How is that still a greedy cash grab?" Simple: Is Wotc announcing that they are also raising the pay of their...

I said that they could "give FLGS the same price per unit." if they wanted to. D&D does a 100m+ a year. Given their profit margins they could easily absorb the cost of having their warehouse vendor ship multiple orders. (The FLGS would pay the shipping costs like they always do anyway.) Would...

What's hilarious is that Wotc is paying the same price to print the books whether they go to a FLGS, or to Amazon... FLGS get screwed because WotC can't be bothered to add a few people to their staff, take orders, and give FLGS the same price per unit. And that's not even getting into the...