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His boundless optimism and unique perspective are a blessing to humanity. "Any model we make does not discribe the universe, it discribes what our brains are capable of saying at this time" -Rober Anton Wilson I would recommend all of his books, but he has also written the foreward on some...

Thank you @Scribe I'm just speaking from personal experience. Other folks may have their own perspective, but based on what LGS store owners have said to me (in the US & the UK) this is what it looks like on the ground floor anyway for the moment. This isn't the end of anything though, LGS'...

Did it? my bad. I guess change it to "in recent years" then.

This always brings me around to Robert Anton Wilson's approach towards everything. "The map is not the territory."

During covid paper mtg was in crisis mode for wotc because no one was able to play in person in stores. Locally all the LGS' except one closed for good after the first year of covid (and they were all heavily reliant on paper mtg to survive). So yes partly covid but it was also several company...

I just like to keep informed, because sometimes parallels can be seen in the ttrpg industry, for example: licensed IP's tend to do well to ok for the initial run in both ccgs & ttrpgs, but eventually taper off or end with the end of the license (and they are often not renewed). You can look at...

Ok I get it, but you did kind of take it out of context because there is a bit to unpack in the whole statement I guess. Its cool man. Me too I agree, I just want to play the classic cards with my friends and remember the good times we had back in the 90's, it shouldn't cost a fortune to do...

Except its not. l5r ccg discontinued best ccgs current most popular ccgs dicebreaker top 10 ccgs 2021 Of all the numerous ccg's released, only the big top three (pokemon, mtg, yugioh) are still active, while the rest are being discontinued or dropped by publishers. I think Flesh and Blood...

You are not reading my posts, I have not dismissed card games, I am simply not in favor of treating cardboard as rare collectibles. Artificial scarcity does not equate to a healthy system for anyone when these games are supposed to be affordable by everyone. I may be reading too much in your...

On the contrary, I have extensively played almost every big tent ccg except pokemon (mtg, st, sw, VtM, Netrunner, Battletech, Jih, AvP, Term, ME-ICE, L5r), countless independent ccg's, helped playtest a few, and even designed a few card games of my own. What I dislike is the idea that during a...

Well it depends on who you ask I guess. Yes, most ccg's appear to be doing fine, but every collectible market is a bubble waiting to pop, similar to the crash of baseball cards or the collapse of comics in the 90s. History bears the lesson that most things labeled "collectable" lose value over...

Thank you for the clarification, my mistake I did mean Product Identity, not IP.

Yeah I agree, I also noticed that Mutants & Masterminds d20 states that specific mechanics are their IP [Edit: PI], like the tables for powers. Except, the powers aren't listed in the IP[PI*] because you can't copyright generic superhero powers. Edit*: Oops, I meant PI (product Identity as...

I use two different character sheets in text format, one for all the gritty details, and an abbreviated version for when I run games. Monsters and PC's are so easy to manage this way that I can run combat on the fly without having to look anything up. ? Character Name ? / LV 1 / Berserker /...

At the moment, all we really have is speculation due on part to their lack of information (they claim backwards compatibility, but history has shown this statement to not always be the case). Yes they have made a statement in response to the OGL rumor, but those that are familiar with the OGL...

They have massive warehouses full of countless palettes of sealed product, yet they still print more. Not to mention plenty of LGS' and distributors are also stuck with sealed product that they can't sell, because amazon dumps undercut their entire business model. What they couldn't sell, they...

Haha, I like it except my players would immediately associate nine circles of spells with the nine circles of hell (i know them well enough). ;)

Things that are completely separate, but using the same terminology, for example character "levels" and spell "levels." Honestly I got tired of explaining the difference, so I just call them spell ranks instead of levels now. When I publish I will be using spell ranks instead of levels as one...

Very much agreed. I personally don't ever call for rolls unless there is actually something at stake in the game, and there will actually be an interesting result from the suspense of the roll. Otherwise, the players can go about things using the narrative. I have seen DM's call for too many...

Google says Foundry can be used offline if you set up your computer as the server, but I don't have much experience with Foundry. GIMP is free, and I use it to load maps for fog of war, just create a new layer in all black, and use the erase tool to carve out the party's path through the...