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The Thematic Toolkit line wraps up with a bang! In this final, 12-page installment we have three new archetypes: Scholars can become Tacticians, masters of the battlefield. If you've wanted a more martial scholar, this has you covered! Sorcerers can become Shadowed, masters of curses and...

Disney could afford it, but any whiff of open gaming would be gone in a heartbeat, and they might even start going after small RPG companies. That would be no good at all. Ditto any other major media company. The perhaps one exception would maybe be Microsoft, if they really wanted to break...

I never even played 4e, but from the sound of it, it at the very least had some good design in it.

Yeah, sadly that genie is out of its bottle, that bell has been rung, and all the toothpaste is out of its tube. We are in that world everywhere and it sucks.

I mean, if we're talking about "I just got three wishes from a genie and have to spend them on the TTRPG industry" scenarios, I'd love to see everything about D&D in the public domain. Rules, settings, characters, everything. It will never happen. Like "the universe will literally experience...

So much this. and not just with RPG news, but everything these days. I hate hyperpolarization and algorithmic echo chambers about everything from politics to music to TTRPG news with every fiber of my increasingly-grumpy being.

Pretty sure all Morrus was saying is that you've been pretty consistent with that messaging.

What Cory Doctorow colorfully named "en$#!7ification" (mild censorship mine) marches on...

My personal goalpost these days isn't so much "Hasbro crumbles to dust" (cathartic though that would be) but "more people are willing to play other games along with D&D." That would be good for the hobby as a whole, I think. And some of the more popular influencers like Mike Shea, Bob World...

The place I actually expect to see the biggest impact from BG3 is the video game industry. I think in the same ways that Slay the Spire and Disco Elysium were innovative and we're now seeing lots of games with their DNA, we'll start to see a bunch of heavy BG3 influences in upcoming CRPGs...

I think ToV has a chance to carve out a community roughly the size of A5E's or slightly larger (that is to say, large enough to be self-sustaining, but not a serious threat to the big dog). Daggerheart and the MCDM RPG have the potential to be bigger. I seriously doubt they'll dethrone D&D, but...

To voluntarily waste time by replying to the absent: I'm certainly no fan of Hasbro's, but the evidence just isn't there to support the idea that D&D is in financial trouble, that angry right-wing grognards are the only paying customers for it, or that representation drives anyone away from the...

Fair enough. All I have is proof that some limited sample of this community was willing to argue for several pages, not that anyone actually liked it.

Eight pages to establish that nobody actually knows anything and people like to argue. I'd like those minutes back, please.

You could always run it with Prime-Time Adventures.

Looks like I either mixed up something he said about filmmaking with his actual worldview or I conflated him with some other die-hard cynic. I stand corrected, in either case.

It doesn't help that there are two properties that go by "Avatar" and while one has an incredible implementation of PbtA that resulted from a record-smashing kickstarter, the other definitely would make a solid TTRPG too. Just ... what would you call it? The brand confusion is bad enough talking...

And as long as EN Publishing continues their generous policy of putting new rules under an open license (a safe assumption), you can rest assured that the third-party community will create some "bridge" content with elements of both for those who like to mix their sci-fi peanut butter with their...

Also: I will give Snyder unironic credit for one thing: the man does have a sense of visual style. I wish he wouldn't desaturate everything quite so far, but I can definitely admit that he can make dramatic set pieces with the best of them. And the fact that I'm about 99% sure that the club used...