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that possibility died the day Hasbro bought them.

done that 3 times already. <sort've>

So after reading all this it's 1. tiny little updates dribbled out every two or three years. 2. lot's of updates or what I call the 3rd edition model. 3. reinvent the wheel every 5 to 10 years. We still haven't come up with anything that hasn't already been tried.

that's funny. Basic Marketing is make people wade through tons of stuff so you'll buy the things that are higher profit. All financial benefits are for white whales wading through mounds of stuff they'll buy. This will never get fixed for that reason. It's the same reason your grocery...

It's also much harder to find it because it's like the internet an huge disorganized mess. More is not always better.

and feeds the certain things are overpowered arguements, when they really aren't overpowered just powerful and very unlikely to work.

the bigger the company the less likely any innovation will come. Bigger almost always means slow steady incremental change.

so 3rd edition. never ending supply of splat books.

There's been many very long threads about the fall of TSR. It was family drama, friend drama and just years of gamers trying to be gamers while running a business. It wasn't the boxed sets that killed them. It can probably be distilled down to the fact that the company didn't have a solid...

they also set them up for many other reasons, personal, and other. to simply say they only set up companie's to make profits is just silly. but yes they do need to make profits to continue.

I think the one thing that never gets added to that discussion is that most people over the last 30 years have not had thier pay go up as much as inflation. All those covid pay raises make economists think everyone should be happy but if you look at a table that includes inflation and average...

Most of the countries central banks that tried to raise interest rates were trying to sink Zombie Firms and that so far has been a complete failure as a strategy. Some experts have been saying for awhile in America at least that retail needs to lose about 20% of the companies that exist, Fast...

Or those talisman's of pure good become a talisman of a certain god and they they hurt nearly everyone good or bad that shouldn't pick them up. How dare you hold a relic of the sun god?

no but the alignment system is the simple version of doing a full list of acceptable behaviors for Gods which could end up based on historical and real world examples, mapping out most of the characters day, telling them when they have to pray, what words they can and can't use, whether or not...

But out of how many things being sold? Millions? billions? Still outliers.

No when you worship gods which is generally the only time it comes into the game.

honestly it's a thief. good evil don't matter. chaotic, lawful might if they get caught by the authorities or the local Guild. the local guild might not like troublemakers who are bad for business.

good analogy. A lot of arguments over the year have really boiled down to the question. "Should the game concepts be simplified, or complicated? " Odd that we can't all agree.... :ROFLMAO:

That is another discussion entirely and it's been going on since 1e. personality and alignment are two completely different things and i wish the Dev's would clearly explain that in the Rule book. I shut a friend down on these arguments when I showed him I could play a LE character and...

but the story and what the player doesn't know could be at play there. some people like complicated stories. Are you trying to take that from them? What are you actually fixing?