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Total hypothetical discussion here, but with the current and recent news and controversy with WotC, I think it will be an interesting discussion. I'll post a response to myself later and links to popular responses when I'm near a real keyboard. The hypothetical is that a tech billionaire wants...

I don't have an opinion who, but I can't help but wonder if the major functions should be broken out. Role play as one. Collectible card games as another and board games as a third instead of all under one head.

Wizards has had an eventful couple of years. The only reason that I care is that they hold stewardship over the D&D brand. I have no interest in the modern version of that particular game. I'd love to know the inside baseball of what happened over the last couple of years though with the big...

This could just be an alternate reality where Warner didn't merge with Discovery, but with Disney instead. I'd think that Disney keeps them separate, but makes their mark by refocusing DC around what's popular and keeping things sex-free.

It's all a bunch of judgement calls anyway. Personally it's all about not having the build metagame and reducing fighting complexity. I also like having 6 attributes. I give DCC a pass in that it still has 6, but I still think it would have been better if it had the original 6 and added Luck...

I fully agree that Pathfinder is not OSR. I've run across multiple people who argue that it's OSR because it's a retroclone, and I just saw that video. I think there are several interesting splits between d&d style games. The first is if there's metagame around character builds. I think...

I keep thinking about the state of OSR systems - specifically in the commercial sense. I keep thinking that DCC, OSE, and ShadowDark are the top of the pile right now, but a few others (LL, S&W, and OSRIC) are hanging on, plus there are bunch that never really left the lulu stage and a bunch...

And the ones left over make their money selling magic and Pokemon cards. It didn't help that someone opportunistically sued a bunch out of business over their websites. I have one nearby that does RPGs a handful that do just magic and Pokemon. The one that does RPGs is just the three I...

I'm not going that far. It's just hard to for a brick and mortar to work well with anything but the top of the RPG landscape. They sell enough D&D, Pathfinder, and Warhammer to make those work, but supporting any of the million OSR games is difficult. The fact that OSR falls under a million...

Aren't they!?

Shadowdark RPG 50 Character Sheet Notepad 6x10 - Etsy <- pad of character sheets

What character sheet were you looking for? Maybe someone can help yo find it?

I figure it's a vicious circle. Local game store only carries a few RPGs because anything small can't make money, and anything small can't get big enough to make money for the FLGS without being in the FLGS. I don't know how to fix that.

No, but mostly because I don't like the character build metagame. I don't like a game where the players argue about rules and make it hard for the DM to make a quick ruling.

I've been also looking at a lot of modern modules for things like OSE and Shadowdark. They often favor brevity. I don't need massive box text most of the time, and if I'm being efficient, being able to find what I need quickly is fantastic.

I can see that. I actually take the modern language updates as a good thing. I've been comparing the released chapter of Tsojcanth on D&D Beyond against a PDF of the module and am taking the updates to the text and map as an improvement.

I played through Tomb of Annihilation. It's inspirations are - from what I can see - The Isle of Dread, Dwellers of the Forbidden City, and Tomb of Horrors. It's been a few years, but the Tomb itself is redesigned to be less save or die and fit more into the 5e playstyle expectations. It's...

I'm not disagreeing with you here. Please don't take that this post as that. I may be coming in here as a bit of a non-sequitur, but I'm in the process of reading the orange cover version of the Palace of the Silver Princess. I started with 5th edition D&D and transitioned to DCC, and am now...

Glad you're enjoying. I prefer a D&D with flatter math and not a whole lot of additional player options and no new fighter powers every level. Also tl;dr and didn't realize it was April 1st until I wrote this.

He's right in a bunch of ways in the article, but it's easy to be reactionary to the title. It's easier if all the things that look like D&D follow the same math. Just look at all the D&D from 1974 through the 1990s (excluding maybe Player Options) all had pretty close math and people just...